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1. One of these was a certain magistrate who by deft manipulation, had left the bench, saucepans, and a fawning sergeant far behind
2. And secondly, that y'all aren't fawning, bowing and scraping before me is precisely how we began this voyage to begin with, remember? No special treatment?”
3. He came across and his whole attitude had changed to one of fawning on his wife he really did have more faces than the ‘Town Hall Clock’, as he said
4. When he was finally admitted to the inner chamber there would be no fawning or deferential adulation, no flattery or false praises, because this time he would take control
5. " Settling his bloated body into a more comfortable position, he stared hard at the fawning badger
6. Carter‘s endlessly quixotic ―peacekeeping‖ overtures to autocratic regimes throughout the Third World in a transparent attempt at redeeming his failed presidency; this is not to imply, however, that our ex-president does not (otherwise) share a certain sympathy with such leaders as evidenced by his fawning indifference to human and civil rights abuses routinely evident in many of those countries
7. (Who was it that said ―you can‘t make an omelet without breaking a few eggs‖?) Nevertheless, such designs seem justified, on some uncertain level, at least, ( ‘tis better to err on the side of ―caution‖), on the basis of radical liberalism‘s excessive aversion for anything Western and its fawning enthusiasm for its vocal opponents
8. So naturally, when I saw him holding your arm and fawning over you, I wanted to know what brand of perfume you use
9. I was concerned that Shamansky would be pissed that I was late, but when I walked into the dining room and saw the girl of his dreams fawning over him, I knew my tardiness would not be a problem
10. Neither the fawning media nor his sleepy opponent pressed Obama on the matter
11. “That sly snake! The vizier thinks that he has me fooled by his fawning!” he grumbled
12. thinks that he has me fooled by his fawning!” he grumbled
13. Uybvahk eyes bulged more than normal, but he shot back,"I accept with gratitude the fawning accolade of this northern barbarian
14. In order that as many people as possible have at least the basic understanding of the action, we will show the Constant News Channel’s breathlessly fawning documentary on the subject
15. and the fawning hart,
16. To become the occasional lover of Louis XIV did not bother her, at least for the first years of his reign, before the negative influence of his court and the constant fawning or his courtesans would develop in him his least attractive traits, like selfishness and arrogance
17. Did you think I could leave that with you? Me, fawning all over you? Drunk, begging for sex on the streets of Paris?"
18. Slightly taller than the rest of them, he looked as if he were holding an informal court, bestowing his attention on the fawning cluster
19. Unlike most of the women and fans they encountered on a daily basis, she wasn’t flirting or fawning over them in awe, nor was she acting the way most people normally behave, whenever they came in contact with his group
20. children are a vital part to this workhouse and they cannot become spoiled by such fawning as
21. Daphne also spotted Cam, Emma, Gregory, Pete, and Stan sitting with Hortense, fawning over the doctor like they all had school-girl crushes
22. “ How dare you wear a different costume than the one I had made specifically for you? Marcus told me he didn’t appreciate your fawning all over him, flirting unashamedly when there were other young women who wished to dance with him and then snubbing all the young suitors who wanted to share a bit of private time with you! You’re relegated to your rooms until I say otherwise! ” She slammed the door on her way out
23. But Ugrasen could not back down in front of his fawning courtiers
24. Her media profile, with the talkshows fawning over her, the men’s magazines begging for photo spreads, the glamour mags demanding haircare tips, as well as no small amount of political pressure, meant that she had to be seconded to 1st for the visit
25. His marriage was not going well and he was annoyed by Lisa"s unaccustomed antics and fawning conduct towards Hassan
26. Elections bought and sold, favors begged for and curried, lickspittles and fawning ass lickers sucking up to Roman senators representing noble ethical principles: senators so old so rotten so senile, they divorced their wives to marry 14 yr-old girls
27. He couldn't stand another year of girls fawning over Chris and then looking at him in disgust
28. She lives like a queen in her own house, every whim satisfied by her fawning husband, yet she is denied the satisfaction of a loving partnership like that which exists between a husband and his second wife
29. Then, what submission, what cringing and fawning, what servility, what abject humiliation! As to bowing down in body and spirit, nothing in that way was left for Heaven--which may have been one among other reasons why the worshippers of
30. Where thrift may follow fawning
31. The new Chief Justice Burger followed up with a series of fawning communications to Nixon
32. She said: “I suppose they’ll have half a dozen fat children, and Merthin will inherit Elfric’s business, and become just another town tradesman, building houses for merchants and fawning on clergymen for contracts, just like his father-in-law
33. He had filled out like a prosperous merchant, and carried himself with an air of arrogant self-assurance – although Merthin fancied he could still see, underneath the fa ç ade, the anxiety and self-hatred of the fawning toady
34. at her feet and belch forth her titanic servant, the fawning monster who would bring her whatever she asked
35. He was more fawning and would-be friendly; but Sam surprised some strange looks in his eyes at times, especially towards Frodo; and he went back more
36. MAYBE IT WAS BECAUSE I didn’t sleep, tossing the whole night because this SOB—who was always the first to dash away when one of his buddies had the urge to go golfing, and pretended to be this fawning, adoring husband in public—was hurting one of the sharpest girls in the city, someone I loved
37. Alex did some of his best work, at least according to a fawning profile of him that had run a few years back in the Post’s Sunday magazine
38. He was attached to them; he had been fawning over them daily for weeks
39. Catch, catch the fawning villain, and send him to
40. Freedom, free thought and science, will lead them into such straits and will bring them face to face with such marvels and insoluble mysteries, that some of them, the fierce and rebellious, will destroy themselves, others, rebellious but weak, will destroy one another, while the rest, weak and unhappy, will crawl fawning to our feet and whine to us: “Yes, you were right, you alone possess His mystery, and we come back to you, save us from ourselves!”
41. He was surrounded by people congratulating him and fawning upon him
42. The most fawning of them will even say to their superiors that they have been common soldiers, and that they do not forget their place
43. Probably what pleased her was that the latter in her turn seemed almost fawning upon Nikolay Vsyevolodovitch and was more gracious to him than to anyone
44. Golyadkin senior’s namesake was smiling, too, fawning upon Andrey Filippovitch and tripping about at a respectful distance from him, and was whispering something in his ear with a delighted air, to which Andrey Filippovitch assented with a gracious nod
45. Golyadkin’s false friend went on, fawning upon him and cajoling him with a little smile
46. A malicious, indecent joy shone in his countenance; he was rubbing his hands with rapture, he was turning his head from side to side in ecstasy, he was fawning round every one in delight and seemed ready to dance with glee
47. As kicks and cuffs have not compelled us to take part with them, neither shall caresses or fawning, for we will mete out an equal measure of justice to both