59 Verbs to Use for the Word flatteries

I waited that afternoon on Mrs. Squeeze, and poured out before her the flatteries which usually gain access to rank and beauty: I did not then know, that there are places in which the only compliment is a bribe.

He glanced covertly at Crewe to see how he took the flattery.

Nor you, ye poor, of lettered scorn complain: To you the smoothest song is smooth in vain; O'ercome by labour and bowed down by time, Feel you the barren flattery of a rhyme? Can poets soothe you, when you pine for bread, By winding myrtles round your ruined shed? Can their light tales your weighty griefs o'erpower, Or glad with airy mirth the toilsome hour?

"Perhaps I like flattery as well as my neighbors," she said with dignity, "

But she suffered little from the change, was contented to win and accept the flattery of inferior people, and, instead of spending her faculties in soothing the "radically wretched life" of Johnson, used them, perhaps not less happily, in lightening the sufferings of Piozzi during his last years.

For this purpose it is necessary that, as we preserve the practice of our ancestors in one respect, we revive it in another; that we imitate those in just freedom of language whom we follow in the decent forms of ceremony; and show that as we preserve, like them, a due sense of the regal dignity, so, like them, we know likewise how to preserve our own, and despise flattery on one side, as we decline rudeness on the other.

Truth looked out of her bright eyes, and rose up armed and flashed scorn or denial when she encountered flattery or meanness or imposture.

A while ago they tried flattery and cajolery.

Since my eyes opened on this world I've not known the day that someone has not uttered a truthful flattery on the subject of my nose.

He has met only the weak ones who could not withstand his flattery, but I can take care of myself, sir, or, if not, God will protect me."

Women gaze at him with wonder and admiration, though he disdains their praises and avoids their flatteries.

But doubtless, also, the masters are, in many cases, the object of a merely interested cultus, sitting aloft like Louis Quatorze, giving and receiving flattery and favour; and the dogs, like the majority of men, have but forgotten their true existence and become the dupes of their ambition.

Dear, oh dear, what a fool I had been to softly swallow the flattery of Mr Grey without a single snub in return!

All offices of this kind are the greatest endearments, being real flatteries enforced by deeds and actions, and therefore far more prevalent than those that are performed but by words and fawning, though very great advantages are daily obtained that way; and therefore he esteems flattery as the next most sure and successful way of improving his interests.

Whoever has read this drama and Orrery's subsequent experiments, Mustapha (1665), the Black Prince (1667), Tryphon (1668), will be able to estimate Dryden's absurd flattery at its proper value.

Dear George,I cannot help thinking you laugh at me when you say such very civil things of my letters, and yet, coming from you, I would fain not have it all flattery: So much the more, as, from a little elf, I've had a high opinion of myself, Though sickly, slender, and not large of limb.

Even if I had stopped to think, I might fairly have supposed that Anne would find some flattery in the contrast.

Such correspondents often indulge in insinuations, or fulsome flattery, which must be carefully eliminated.

From that time there was none in the kingdom whom Henry loved and trusted as he did the Prior of Witham, and to the end of his life he constantly sought in all matters the advice of one who gave him scant flattery and much sharp reproof.

How lovely has it often been to me, as I sat at my work in Florence, to hear the little children go by, chanting of Jesus and Mary,and young men singing to young maidens, not vain flatteries of their beauty, but the praises of the One only Beautiful, whose smile sows heaven with stars like flowers!

He sneers at people of low birth or who have not had a college-education, partly to hide his own want of certain advantages, partly as well-timed flattery to those who possess them.

And then, of course, he fell in love with her, for she leaned on his piano and improvised flatteries across the strings to him and turned full on him the luminous midnight of her ox-eyed beauty.

" "What's become," Minver asked, "of all the dear maids and widows that you've failed to marry at the end of each summer, Rulledge?" The satire involved flattery so sweet that Rulledge could not perhaps wish to make any retort.

" When Madame Menoux went off, La Couteau had lavished such flattery and such promises upon her that she felt quite light and gay; no longer regretting her money, but dreaming of the day when little Pierre would come back to her with plump cheeks and all the vigor of a young oak.

She records that he once said to her:'You think I love flattery, and so I do, but a little too much always disgusts me.

59 Verbs to Use for the Word  flatteries