No doubt they are very flattering to their originals.
But he thought that it was a poor game; nor did he ever realize that this entertainment had been specially organized with a view to flattering his military and sporting tastes.
The revelations of Mr Macaulay to his correspondent in Edinburgh, gave any thing but a flattering picture of the unity which then pervaded the councils of Chesham Place.
A flattering murmur of applause ran through the assembly.
Any one whom he loved was sure to be pure and good; for everything base and sordid, though it approached him under the most flattering guise, instantly repelled him.
If there were such a staircase, reaching to the portals of heaven, Mother Lieschen might perhaps stand on the topmost step, and certain others, to whom you have borne such flattering testimony, at the very bottom.
On the other hand, he did not seem to be aware of the existence of the mistress of the house, nor of my important self, though the baron had presented me to him with some flattering words about my intellectual gifts.
After a time he received a check and a flattering letter.
She did not understand how her mother and Constance could bring themselves to be deferential and flattering to every customer that entered.
And her tone was peculiar, charged with import, confidential, and therefore very flattering to Constance.
He made himself exceedingly agreeable, kissing her, and flattering her by his evidently sincere desire to please.
He continued his flattering investigations with a generous smile.
To appear as a conductor before this assemblage of amateurs--more distinguished for vanity than for love of art--and to earn their languid approval, seemed to him flattering and important.
Loewenson's article, with its flattering judgment of me, does not give me much pleasure.
It was impossible to avoid his acquaintance, which was obviouslyflattering and agreeable.
I heard it, and hasten to thank you for the kind and flattering attention bestowed on my music, and for your fine interpretation of my difficult and ungrateful work.
If it does not represent me in the least as a musician, it will at any rate give the authoress a chance of satisfying her flattering wish to place me among the prominent musicians of the day.
More flattering still was the ovation I met with at the supper which Rubinstein gave after the concert.
Somewhat spoilt by Nicholas Rubinstein's flattering attitude towards every note of his recent orchestral works, he was rather hurt by the number of cuts Napravnik considered it necessary to make in the score of his opera.
This strange coincidence was the most flattering event of his life--the highest honour to which he had ever ventured to aspire.
And behold, a Frenchman comes on the scene, in whom these qualities of piquancy and pungency are not the outcome of effort and reflection, but flow from his pen as in a free stream, flattering the ear, but touching us also.
In spite of the applause of the public and the flattering notices in the Press, Tchaikovsky's visit made less impression in Berlin than in Leipzig and Hamburg.
Anyone would suppose I had been in the habit of flattering influential people and making advances to them with the object of getting my works performed.
He bowed low over the royal hand that proffered so flattering a favour, and mounted his horse once more with an air of extreme satisfaction and the ready alacrity of a youth.
The tone of admiration in which he spoke was so obviously involuntary as to be flattering in the extreme.
The archer smiled, and bowed low at this flattering tribute to his nation.
That is because you are thinking of leaving us," Warren rejoined, thoughtfully pulling the ears of David, who could scarcely contain himself for joy at being the object of such a flattering attention.
I like both the Simons," Eliza announced, with flattering openness.
The firm of publishers declined, but in courteous and even flattering terms, to publish the work in question.
They are all of the same opinion, and it is not a flattering opinion.
Listening to her pretty, halting speech the flattering belief had once more grown strong in him that he had the power--had he also the will--to restore her to complete and living womanhood.
No--decidedly the position was not a flattering one!
That such should be the aspect of our finances is highly flattering to the industry and enterprise of our population and auspicious of the wealth and prosperity which await the future cultivation of their growing resources.
Let us trust that in surveying a scene so flattering to our free institutions our joint deliberations to preserve them may be crowned with success.
The condition of the public finances was never more flattering than at the present period.
And young Harvey Sturm, also a bank president, who followed him with a glowing speech, made flattering references to the work I had done "in upbuilding our glorious commonwealth.
It was not a flatteringdescription of myself, but Tom Stevens, the proprietor of the Thunderer, always hated Strauss and his crowd, and the papers had to say something.
Make it a general rule of conduct neither to flatter virtue nor exasperate folly: by flattering virtue, you can not confirm it; by exasperating folly, you can not reform it.
It’s so flattering to be remembered by the dear creatures, and recalls the time when life was beginning, and poulets in feminine writing suggested such delightful possibilities.
They were far too clever for that, and appreciated the advantages to be gained from sombre stuffs and flattering laces.
There was no other way of accounting for his assiduous good offices; his flattering yet minute description of my appearance.
She was no sooner a little revived than she began to find occasions of flattering me upon my improved beauty, which she hinted had become only more interesting by losing the glow of health.
A very flattering prophecy indeed, Cecil; and if you can only make it clear that it belongs to me, I must set out for Glen Eredine, and push my fortune.
She treated me with a distinction which I ascribed solely to the most flattering partiality; and sought my society with an eagerness in which I suspected no aim beyond its own gratification.
The object of this flattering inquiry watches the maker of it with a poignant anxiety, until she, her brother, and her attendants have turned the corner, and are really and entirely out of sight.
Under ordinary circumstances she would have preferred to see the cricket, but she was not insensible to Cullyngham's charms, and she liked the flattering way in which he had couched his request.
A fortnight after my arrival I made my first appearance, and my reception was not a flattering one.
This was too flattering an invitation to be refused, so I obeyed the royal command and stood behind the king's chair.
Instead of flattering him, I gave him, frankly but gently, my opinion of the cornfed school of literature, easing the sting by inferring that he without doubt had bigger things up his sleeve than his so-called prose poems.
Had Zotique not been a sensible fellow, he would surely have had his head turned by the many flattering things said to him.
Other translations sent, as it seems, to Celio Curione in the following year, are acknowledged by him in still more flattering and flowery language.
The flattering propositions of the Austrian ambassador, Kaunitz, who treated with her in person and won her over, did much to set her against Germany, and induced her to influence Louis XV.
Absolute mistress of the ministry, she satisfied all demands of the Austrian court, a move which brought her the most flattering letter from Kaunitz, in which he gives her the credit for all the transactions between the two courts.
The ladies, however, found means to explain away all that was flattering in this distinction: they said, Miss Groves was clumsy; and it was her resemblance to the unwieldy German ladies that made her so much admired by his majesty.
His hearers smiled, well pleased at this flattering remark, and Phanes went on: "How different the Jews are now, for instance!
