No sycophant or slave, that dared oppose Her sacred cause, but trembled when he rose; And every venal stickler for the yoke Felt himself crushed at the first word he spoke.
A sycophant to those who could serve him and a bully to those who could not, Rigby added the meanness of the social parvenu to the malignity of the political bravo.
As, however, it may be supposed that he is one of those who delight to play the sycophant to kings and queens, to curry favour with Tories, and to bepraise Wellington, he begs leave to state that such is not the case.
He had been outwitted by Louis Philippe, and had been thesycophant of Russia and Austria.
At the Schloss, high above the old-world town of Erfurt, the sneaking sycophant Von Metzsch had a long conference with the Emperor but I was unable to overhear any word of it.
To dinner there were invited the Prime Minister, Boris Stürmer, and a sycophant of his named Sikstel.
That night he called upon Stürmer, who had with him his sycophant and ex-policeman Manuiloff, and they held counsel together.
The latter, Anthony discovered in the course of the commonplaces which followed, was sycophant and henchman of the first--a never failing source of applause for the former's witticisms.
Hartmann here is a director in the Challenger factory," the sycophanttold him.
To play the sycophant toward; to flatter obsequiously.
With the pride of a sycophant in the presence of a lord Hunt relates that Byron would not let the footman carry the books but gave "you to understand that he was prouder of being a friend and a man of letters than a lord.
A sycophant does not tell his patron that his fame will survive, not in the renown of his own actions, but in the sonnets of his sycophant.
Above all, a sycophantdoes not write to his patron precisely as he feels on all occasions; and this rare kind of sincerity is all over the sonnets.
Does a sycophantfancy that his patron--if one may use such a term--is not aware of his degrading character and position?
But if this were so, and if His Excellency and his sycophant were reaping such a rich harvest, then would they dare to run such risks as to connive at the theft of the plans by a foreign agent?
These are of the deep things of flattery: and many a shallow sycophant Hath marvelled ill that praise of children seldom won their parents.
In these small things with these small minds count thou the sycophant a courtier, And pay back, as blindly as ye may, the too transparent honour.
For wherein thou lackest most, there chiefly will the sycophant commend thee, And then most warmly will congratulate, when a man hath least deserved.
A discussion ensued, speeches were made, and Polybius answered the sycophant at large.
The character of a literary sycophant was never more perfectly exhibited than in Hurd.
This prostration was of no avail, for sentence of death was speedily passed upon him; the sycophant Suffolk (Lady Jane Grey's own father) being one of the judges who presided at the trial.
The chief bait which attracted a needy sycophant to the court was the hope of obtaining as the reward of servility and flattery, a royal letter to an heiress.
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