How To Use Fawner In A Sentence
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While poor excommunicated Miss Tox, who, if she were a fawner and toad – eater, was at least an honest and a constant one, and had ever borne a faithful friendship towards her impeacher and had been truly absorbed and swallowed up in devotion to the magnificence of Mr
Dombey and Son
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The man's chest and shoulders were magnificent, but the stump of a right arm, beyond the flesh of which the age-whitened bone projected several inches, attested the encounter with a shark that had put an end to his diving days and made him a fawner and an intriguer for small favors.
THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
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The man's chest and shoulders were magnificent, but the stump of a right arm, beyond the flesh of which the age-whitened bone projected several inches, attested the encounter with a shark that had put an end to his diving days and made him a fawner and an intriguer for small favors.
THE HOUSE OF MAPUHI
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He will be remembered for starring in a series of urban myths fuelled by celebrity fawners which painted him as some anarchic anti-hero.
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There is no such fawner on the aristocracy, if he has but a chance of getting any thing out of them, as a _parvenu_ by birth, a liberal in politics, and an Independent by "_religious persuasion_.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845
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As such persons were usually cringing and fawning, and looked for a reward, the word came to be used also to denote a fawner or flatterer.
Barnes New Testament Notes
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And yet we men do not approve; nay, if we see a man sharing his goods with other men, we call it wastefulness, extravagance, and by such names, and dub the men to whom he gives a share, fawners and parasites.
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Never has America been so thoroughly in the clutches of fawners, lap dogs, toadies, boot lickers, lick spittles, and Snopses.
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Never has America been so thoroughly in the clutches of fawners, lap dogs, toadies, boot lickers, lick spittles, and Snopses.
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So we met to do him honor; worshipper and eager fawner begged a tassel of his whiskers, or his autograph in ink; never was there so much sighin 'round a pallid human lion, as he stood his lines explaining, taking out the hitch and kink!
Rippling Rhymes
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He pictured him as either a bit of a fawner, who would cringe through the year, or a keen-headed business man, who would go through it with a steel-trap mouth, and an eye to every weakness in his fellow-workers.
Antony Gray,—Gardener
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Alex, I've fawned over Palin and Althouse, Sir, is no fawner by comparison.
A big crowd in Cedarburg, Wisconsin for McCain and Palin today.
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You had the mendicants, sycophants, lick-spittles, toadies, fawners all with their tin cups, looking for a handout of taxpayers' funds.
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Alex, I've fawned over Palin and Althouse, Sir, is no fawner by comparison.
A big crowd in Cedarburg, Wisconsin for McCain and Palin today.
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Money is what separates the fans friom the fawners.
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Hubris no doubt swam through the potentate's soul as the quivering fawners cried, "The voice of a God and not of a man!"