" Such a flower, writes Mr. Ellacombe, was to old writers "the emblem of constancy in affection and sympathy in joy and sorrow," though it was also the emblem of the fawning courtier, who can only shine when everything is right.

Two girlsfighting one against the other for Elmhurstand both fawning before a cruel and malicious old woman who could never love anyone but herself.

Then ran the dog that followed him and had been with him in the way, and came home as a messenger, fawning and making joy with his tail.

You are a sort of fawning sycophants, That, while the sunshine of my greatness 'dur'd, Revelled out all my day for your delights; And now ye see the black night of my woe O'ershade the beauty of my smiling good, You to my grief add grief; and are agreed With that false Prior to reprieve my joys From execution of all happiness.

i.e., A collection or company, and not, as we now use the word, a kind "of fawning sycophants.

Nor can I crouch, and writhe my fawning tayle, To some great Patron for my best avayle.

He inverts the moral of that fable of him that caressed his dog for fawning and leaping up upon him and beat his ass for doing the same thing, for it is all one to him whether he be applauded by an ass or a wiser creature, so he be but applauded.

Seeing who it was through his little grating, Simon quickly opens the door, and with fawning humility entreats her to step into his poor room, and there he stands, cringing and mopping his eyes, in dreadful apprehension, as having doubtless gathered from some about the house how matters stood betwixt Moll and Mr. Godwin.

THE GROUP OF THE DISAFFECTED [With fawning obsequiousness to the NIGHT-BIRDS.]

The still returning tale, and ling'ring jest, Perplex the fawning niece and pamper'd guest, While growing hopes scarce awe the gath'ring sneer, And scarce a legacy can bribe to hear; The watchful guests still hint the last offence; The daughter's petulance, the son's expense, Improve his heady rage with treach'rous skill, And mould his passions till they make his will.

That fawning villain's forc'd congratulations Will cloud my triumphs, and pollute the day.

It will serve as a good antidote against the conjectures of the allegorizing school if we remember that these commentators of the Empire were for the most part Greek freedmen, themselves largely occupied in fawning upon their patrons.

Nothing to us proves Nicoll's heart-wholeness more than the way in which he talks of his benefactors, in a tone of simple gratitude and affection, without fawning and without vapouring.

She stopped suddenly, looked up at me, and then came wagging her tail and fawning around me.

They then all came fawning and playing and jumping about me.

And then came fawning on Napoleon all the kings of Europe,Austria, Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony, Poland, Italy,all flattering us and going along with us.

Then follow instructions for his treatment, so terrible as to make future tourists to America tremble:"Seize him fearlessly by the throat, and once strangle him into involuntary silence, and the British lion will hereafter be as fawning as he has been hitherto spiteful."

The horse plunged forward, and, with the jolt, she was fawning on Marmaduke's arm again, saying, "Dont be brutal to me any more, Bob.

Stern in rectitude herself, and iron to the fawning or the dishonest, her influence, whether she was feared or loved, was always for good.

The Merle twin at this momentous meal sat as one enthroned, receiving tribute from fawning subjects.

After seeing Doña Cristina well established in Barcelona, surrounded with a cortège of nephews fawning upon the rich aunt from Valencia, her son embarked as apprentice on a transatlantic boat which was making regular trips to Cuba and the United States.

A kind Look they believe would be fawning, and a civil Answer yielding the Superiority.

Stern in rectitude herself, and iron to the fawning or the dishonest, her influence, whether she was feared or loved, was always for good.

From this crude statement of a signal fact, the thoughtless reader will at once judge me rapacious, egoistical, false, fawning, mendacious.

'Dolph, too wise to utter a single bark, but springing to lick their hands, and fawning against their legs.