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
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
And the fierce Panther fawn upon his Mate?
From Ponteach The Savages of America by Moses, Montrose Jonas
He did not fawn upon the animal nor explode with praise.
From Bunker Bean by Wilson, Harry Leon
But the dog, half-trained and bewildered, ran only a little way, to return and fawn upon her as though apologetic for his uselessness.
From The Fighting Shepherdess by Lockhart, Caroline
