Rasputin one day called to him one of his half-dozen sycophants of the secret police, whom the Minister Protopopoff had placed at his disposal for purposes of personal protection, but in reality to act as his spies and agents-provocateurs.
Jupiter stands in heaven and will stand, Though all the sycophants bark at him.
In the midst of an entourage composed of lying sycophants and of treacherous minions, the Cæsar seemed to feel in the presence of the stranger a sense of security and of trust.
He had not moved away from the rostrum all the while that the throng of obsequious sycophants and idle lovesick youths had crowded round Dea Flavia.
No wonder then that whenever her rose-draped litter was perceived in the streets of Rome a crowd of idlers and of sycophants pressed around it, curious to see the queen of society and anxious to catch her ear.
One or two sycophants clung to him, in the hope of getting something; but his children had all separate interests of their own, for the cold and selfish conduct of their parent had driven them quite away from him.
Notoriety has turned his head, notoriety seems to put a halo around him that makes a troop of sycophants look up to him as a saint.
They ne'er the grossest praise mistrust, Their sycophants seem hardly just; 40 For these, in part alone, attest The flattery their own thoughts suggest.
His sycophants must be preferr'd, Room must be made for all his herd: Wherefore, to bring his schemes about, Old faithful servants all must out.
Was it, these sycophants to get, Your bounty swelled a nation's debt?
That his memory should be traduced by court sycophants and an those who live on the spoil of a public is not to be wondered at.
He never would turn them out; and, while everything else in the state was constantly changing, these sycophants seemed to have a life estate in their offices.
In an instant, all the sycophants who had lately been ready to lie for him, to forge for him, to pander for him, to poison for him, hasten to purchase the favor of his victorious enemies by accusing him.
The cringing sycophantsof a corrupt and corrupting ministry could not--dare not deny the correctness of these resolutions.
It forms a rebuking contrast with the fulsome, hypocritical, heartless flattery of modern times showered upon our statesmen by fawning sycophants whose gratitude is based alone upon the loaves and fishes of favor and office.
They were rather the chief's sycophants and handy men, who mended muskets, and beguiled his leisure by telling stories of far-off lands.
I am curious to hear what the Roman sycophants will have to say to this.
Many who had been sycophants were condemned to death, among whom was Seras [Lacuna] [Footnote: The name is suspicious and possibly a corrupt reading.
At first the sepulchres of the heroes of the early ages were the only ones; but under the Cæsars these were eclipsed by the funereal pomp of the freedmen, the parasites and sycophants of the emperors.
From hence you will judge whether these addresses speak the sentiments of the people in general, or are any more than the foul breath of sycophants and hirelings.
Beside her were two middle-aged sycophants who were saying what a perfectly exquisite child Millicent was.
The sycophants agreed that the child must have seen something--and suddenly all three women took an instinctive step away from the door as the sounds of muffled footsteps were audible just outside.
The sycophants waved their heads and hemmed sympathetically.
In the days of Coke there would seem to have been a general understanding on the part of royal sycophants to mislead the monarch, and all became his sycophants who received his favors.
Ever since she had come of age she had been beset bysycophants and flatterers, both old and young, both men and girls, and by men who wanted her money and by men who wanted her.
She saw now the reason of his estrangement; how his sycophants had poisoned his mind against her because they feared her.
Those Court sycophants were conspiring, to drive her away--perhaps even to part her from the only one for whom she entertained a spark of affection.
Friendliness with the Crown Princess meant disfavour with the King, and none of those place-seekers and sycophantscould afford to risk that.
Let me face this man before you, and let me categorically deny all the false charges which he and his sycophants have from time to time laid against me.
During the eighteen years which had elapsed between the signing of the Treaty of Dover and the Revolution, all the envoys who had been sent from Whitehall to Versailles had been mere sycophants of the great King.
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