fawn upon
Example Sentences
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Why do the hotelkeeper, the banker and the lawyer first fawn upon him, then try to threaten and bully him out of town?
From Time Magazine Archive
They should recollect that literature may fawn upon the masses as well as on the aristocracy: and in these days the temptation is in the former direction.
From The Claims of Labour an essay on the duties of the employers to the employed by Helps, Arthur, Sir
And I'm wondering if these people who fawn upon Ribiera aren't paying a price for—well—antidotes, or their equivalent.
From Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 by Bates, Harry
Mr. Pickwick, who came to fawn upon him, the same being his doggish custom of a morning, found Richard tolerant but abstracted.
From The President A novel by Lewis, Alfred Henry
Carry his lap-dogs; fondle his cats; fawn upon his spaniels: what care I?
From Walladmor: And Now Freely Translated from the German into English. In Two Volumes. Vol. I. by De Quincey, Thomas
