All here —fawning, slyly plotting, " roughing it" with the Emperor … here to watch himput an end to this affair, to make epigrams over the battles and idolize thewounded.
Every attention shown him by an important person put him into such an ecstasy as may be observed in a fawning little dog when its master pats it, strokes it, and scratches under its ears.
Man sometimes uses the same arts with his brethren, and when he has no other means of engaging them to act according to his inclinations, endeavours by every servile and fawning attention to obtain their good will.
" I am quite sure, " said the peasant, in a fawning voice, " that a rich, generous man like the M. mayor would go as far as thirty-six francs, to make up a good round sum" .
The fawning spirit which seems instinctive in children taught my brother and sisters to join in the persecutions to which I was subjected, and thus keep in the good graces of a mother whom they feared as much as I.