Not on them the poor rely, Not to them looks liberty, Who with fawning falsehood cower To the wrong, when clothed with power.
Paris had come fawning to my feet--and brought me Dead Sea Fruit.
Enter ~Quaint~, who stands at a distance, making a great many fawning Bows.
The one who had spoken first, the fawning Greek, made a sign to an officer near him, and the latter gave an order to one of the running footmen who stood waiting.
The Greek with the fawning face bent in his saddle towards the young Emperor as if he were prostrating himself, and he spoke in a very low voice.
Bab could descend, without shame, whenever it suited her purposes, from the height of insolent pride to the lowest meanness of fawning familiarity.
For all my fawning rogues agree, That human heroes rule like me.
Now even that very fawning train Which shared the gleanings of your gain, 50 Press foremost who shall first accuse Your selfish jobs, your paltry views, Your narrow schemes, your breach of trust, And want of talents to be just.
Not two days since,' says he, 'you bowed The lowest of my fawning crowd.
The circle's formed, and all his fawning slaves Devoutly bow to earth; from every mouth The nauseous flattery flows, which he returns 490 With promises, that die as soon as born.
Poor, he would have remained a fawning toady, but wealth transformed him into a haughty, arrogant aristocrat at heart.
Nevertheless those of them who depended on Christian trade continued to treat their customers with a gentleness and a fawning attention that had nothing to do with the ordinary blandishments of the counter.
While her mother continued to curse, she went on fawning and pleading with filial self-abasement, although not without an effect of trying to soothe an angry baby.
In the eyes of Tacitus, the most terrible result of the tyranny of the bad emperors was the fawning servility of a once proud order, and their craven treachery in the hour of danger.
He was welcomed by all ranks and ages with fawning enthusiasm as he passed along in triumphal progress to return thanks on the Capitol for the success of an unnatural crime.
And now, in taking leave of Seneca, let us forget the fawning exile in Corsica, the possible lover of Julia or Agrippina, the millionaire minister of Nero, who was surrounded by a luxury and state which moved the envy of the tyrant.
Your father would have crept up, fawning on the deer, and offered him the fruits he loved, stroking him the while.
At last, like a courtierfawning on the royal stick that is laid about his shoulders, he prides himself on the sensitiveness of his conscience.
The envious and the disappointed had found means to prejudice his sovereign against him, and his displeasure was the signal of hatred and persecution to the fawning crew that surrounded his throne.
Gentleness, which belongs to virtue, is to be carefully distinguished from the mean spirit of cowards, and the fawning assent of sycophants.
He has little of thefawning submissiveness of pet dogs "outside," but is independent and self-willed and apt to make a troublesome pet.
But when they were gone, still I saw them, saw them gathered round the grey-haired lady I had left, fawning upon her with their eyes, their hearts filled with as true chivalry as ever animated knight or champion of the olden time.
There was no special fawning or demonstration of affection; he was not that kind; that I might have from any of the others; but from none but Nanook the bark of welcome with my particular inflection in it that no one else ever got.
I feel deeply moved by his sympathy, but my revolutionary traditions forbid the expression of my emotions: a cog in the machinery of oppression, he might mistake my gratitude for the obsequiousness of the fawning convict.
I thought it advisable to give him another bribe, and he resumed the fawning insinuation of his manner.
And this behavior on my part it was that won Kant's confidence; for there was nothing which disgusted him so much as any approach to fawning or sycophancy.
Live fire like that thou seest now in his eyes, Plays fawning round him.
Those weeks in Thorn had starved and frozen the soul out of him, and he had become half a savage, yet a timid, fawning savage whose consciousness was bounded by elemental things.
For the moment the old, frightened, fawning expression came back into his eyes.
She had not seen what he had seen—cowardice, squalor, bestial fawningthat was infamous in a man.
The Dog and the Hare A HOUND having started a Hare on the hillside pursued her for some distance, at one time biting her with his teeth as if he would take her life, and at another fawning upon her, as if in play with another dog.
That is true, Monsieur; you are very clever," replied the grovelling man in a fawning voice.
Later on, he approached Zouroff with his fawning and cringing aspect, and handed him Madame Quero's card.
In helpless beauty I stand Alone in the midst of dreadful adoration; And, round me thronged, the fawning, fawning lusts Open their throats upon me and whine and lick My feet with dripping tongues, or gaze to pant Hot hunger in my face.
And through the world the fawning, fawning lusts Hound me with worship of a ravenous yearning: And I am weary of maddening men with beauty.
Or if you wake your ears for the river's voice, You hear the chime of fawning lipping water, Trodden to chattering falsehood by the keels Of kings' happiness.
And while the three-headed Cerberus was fawning so lovingly on King Pluto, there was the dragon tail wagging against its will, and looking as cross and ill natured as you can imagine, on its own separate account.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "fawning" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
