The beach at the lower end of this lake is comparatively flat and the water shoal.

Her heart was soothed, and her pride secretly flattered, in recollecting that she had not suffered herself to be caught by one who was perfectly indifferent to her.

All was gloomy and strangely flat.

I fondly flattered myself that such would be the event: in the midst of my unlooked-for happiness, I scarcely recollected, or, recollecting, was disposed to yield but a small degree of credit to, the menaces of Mr. Falkland.

'DEAR SIR, 'I hope I do not very grossly flatter myself to imagine that you and dear Mrs. Careless will be glad to hear some account of me.

My last poetical productions (the Sonnets which are interspersed in this work) may perhaps be found even more imperfect than my earlier compositions; since, after a long exile from England, I can scarcely flatter myself that my ear is become more attuned to the harmony of a language, with the sounds of which it is seldom gladdened; or that my poetical taste is improved by living in a country where arts have given place to arms.

Fay, you know, has recently published his novel, 'Norman Leslie,' the second volume of which flats out so awfully.

The landscape between Ostend and Bruges is extremely monotonous, it being a uniformly flat country; yet it is pleasing to the eye at this season of the year from the verdure of the plains, which are all appropriated to pasturage, and from the appearance of the different villages and towns, of which the eye can embrace a considerable number.

" I started to say that I felt terribly flattered that I had played the role so well, but I knew he would not understand.

Well, I'm willing to bet you anything you like that if you were to step down out of your frame, change your velvets and laces for trousers and coat, leave off your great peruke, and wear a derby hat instead of that picturesque, floppy affair, and try your fortune with some Twentieth Century damsel, your high-sounding gallantries, and flattering phrases, would fall singularly flat, and you would be promptlyturned down, sir.

she exclaimed, agreeably flattered, but scarcely surprised by this information.

He seems to be giving us the best that he had to give; and it must be confessed that he is intolerably flat at times.

You flatter yourself strangely, Mr. Garvald, if you think you are ever in my thoughts.

Finally, as the soldiers could not hold out to march farther, in the winter time, too, and were at any rate going to have their hardships for nothing since he was minded to return to Armenia before a great while, he flattered the prince tremendously and made him many attractive promises, to get him to allow the men to winter where they were; he said that in the spring he would make another campaign against the Parthians.

Dr. Bentley was mightily flattered on receiving a letter superscribed "To Dr. Bentley in England."

The man who flatters her delicately will be sure to win her esteem; and every woman might love the being possessed of the qualities she will not fail to endow him with.

she murmured, her eyes candidly admitting that she felt enormously flattered.

Verty preserved a profound and respectful silence, which flattered the poet hugely.

"Where do you find him flattering his countrymen, indirectly or directly, for a vote?

He can flatter adroitly, and feed upon his friends, and yet maintain a show of manhood and independence.

A young girl is awfully flattered when a good-looking older man pays her attention.

Hope for awhile flattered them that some other vessel, bound for New Holland, might also be driven upon those islands, though not with the same hard fate, and that by her means they might be released, and conveyed back to Europe.

And Potts was so far from clairvoyance that he laughed, awkwardly flattered; then anxiously: "Wish I was sure o' my passage money.

No one else ever flattered so long and so much, so boldly and so persistently, so skilfully and with such success.

" Frank and Jack were considerably flattered by this.