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
He unlocks an under compartment and drags out a pair of pointers, who fawn upon him obsequiously in gratitude for their release.
From Kate Carnegie and Those Ministers by Maclaren, Ian
Whether immediately upon the unbinding of a Dog, replenisht with adventitious blood, he will know and fawn upon his Master; and do the like customary things as before?
From Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society - Vol 1 - 1666 Giving some Accompt of the present Undertakings, Studies, and Labours of the Ingenious in many considerable parts of the World by Oldenburg, Henry
I am too old to fawn upon a nurse, Too far in years to be a pupil now.
From How to Write Clearly Rules and Exercises on English Composition by Abbott, Edwin Abbott
Do not fawn upon me little man, I am too old to want women or money.
From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward
