You will not think I am trying to flatter you or myself.
The rachilla, in c, is broader upwards and flatter than in Fig.
Bromus giganteus has a shorter and flatter “seed” and longer awn.
Leaves narrow and more or less involute, and subulate upwards, but easily unrolled, and apt to become flatter as they age.
Arrhenatherum is also glabrous, its leaves narrower, its ridges much flatter and broader, and its ligule is hairy outside (see p.
Festuca pratensis has its palea as a rule somewhat more acute than Lolium perenne, and the flatter tapering rachilla of the latter is more closely appressed to the palea.
Alopecurus pratensis has much broader and flatter ridges than Lolium and a longer ligule, and its sheaths are dark-brown or black--not red; but A.
Alopecurus pratensis has more depressed, flatter and broader ridges than Festuca, and a longer ligule, and lacks the pointed ears.
Next to hating their enemies, men are most inclined to flatter them.
In absolute governments the great nobles who are nearest to the throne flatter the passions of the sovereign, and voluntarily truckle to his caprices.
It would have been impossible for the sycophants of Louis XIV to flatter more dexterously.
It was a long time since a woman in a pretty dress, a woman who knew how to assume a graceful attitude, had taken the trouble to flatter him.
As yet, I cannot flatter myself with any change, for my old opinions appear rather to be more firmly rooted than they were before I sailed.
It would seem to be a law of nature that men should thus flatter themselves, and perceive the mote in the eye of their neighbour, while the beam in their own escapes.
They say she looks as I did at her age," thought the candid lady; "but they must flatter me.
For it is this same Cunianus who has left me the legacy I have mentioned in the beginning of my letter, and I received it as a very notable mark of his approbation of my conduct, if I do not flatter myself.
I rejoice to find they maintain the character abroad which they raised at home, and I begin to flatter myself they have some merit, since persons of such distant countries are agreed in their opinion with regard to them.
Though I flatter myself I have many friends, yet I have scarcely any of the sort you enquire after, and which the affair you mention demands.
But they who come home crowned with laurel from the wars the popular heroes of an hour are not always the only saviours of their country, and they who flatter the people do not always serve them best.
You flatter me, Countess," the young man said, "but indeed these events are interesting.
We could not flatter ourselves that our guides, of whom we knew the insuperable indolence, would come in search of us in the savannah before they had prepared their food and finished their repast.
But if Oviedo, in addressing his letters to cardinal Bembo, thought fit to flatter the taste of a man so familiar with the study of antiquity, Sir Walter Raleigh had a less poetic aim.
Though in the present state of our knowledge we may flatter ourselves with having thrown some light on the extraordinary effects of electric fishes, yet a vast number of physical and physiological researches still remain to be made.
I repeat, why are they to be conferred upon me in particular who cannot flatter myself with enjoying very high favor among the people of this city?
Of such it has been well said that “they need not flatter the vain, nor be tried with the impertinent, nor stand to the courtesy of knavery and folly.
Because, forsooth, my hair is white now, does Bess flatter herself I do not know her secret?
He only condemns those weak and inconsiderate parents who flatter the passions of their children, and who only strive to divert them in their infancy, so that they are guilty of all sorts of excess.
Do not flatter me with false hopes," he said; "I have given up such ideas as those forever.
The man who has never viewed the realm of a seaman's knots from the outside, and tried to get in, must not flatter himself that he fully appreciates the phrase "knotty problem.
Mr. Denslow's counsel upon several important occasions has been of vast value to me, and I flatter myself that upon one occasion at least I served Mr. Denslow to excellent purpose.
We flatter ourselves that before we have been in our house six months we shall have demonstrated that we are not upon earth for the purpose of enriching gas companies and other soulless corporations.
It is, indeed, a grand old roof; but I rather prefer the high-pitched roof of the chancel to this flatter one of the nave, though certainly nothing can be more beautiful than its carving.
These flatter roofs of our perpendicular period do not any of them date much farther back than A.
Is it, that instead of one, we might appear meaner than two, whilst we fly Antigonus, and flatter Ptolemy?
But in transcribing hasty jottings errors are apt to creep in, and despite the collation of these pages when in proof by other hands, I cannot flatter myself that they are impeccable.
But these and a hundred other points are fit only to be discussed in conversation; which, till you tell me the contrary, I still flatter myself with soon.
On the whole, I cannot flatter you with any hopes of success from that quarter; even supposing his lordship were to remain in office, which is very uncertain, considering the present state of our ministry.
I should not dare to mention my own resolutions on this occasion, if I did not flatter myself that your friendship gives them some small importance in your eyes.
He begins now to familiarize himself to French company; and I flatter myself I shall spend the rest of the time we are to live together, not only in peace and contentment, but in great amusement.
It would ill become my friendship to flatteryou on this head.
We flatter ourselves that you rate our company at something; and the prospect of settling Ferguson will be an additional inducement.
