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Sentences ending with flatter

Tell him never to flatter. [11]
But Charmian felt that the time had now come to plead once more for Barine, and she began eagerly: "No, I certainly do not flatter. [10]
A strong, highly spiced word, even if it is sharp, refreshes me--When you have finished a picture, do you like to hear nothing but how well your friends can flatter? [10]
I do not say this to flatter. [5]
And whatever may be said of portraits, daguerrotypes do not flatter. [9]

Short sentences using flatter

He did not flatter himself. [11]
Don't flatter yourself. [4]

Sentences containing flatter two or more times

I realize that I have been in Bombay, that I now am in New York; that it is not my duty to flatter Bombay, but rather to flatter New York. [5]
It has often been said, and by people who would not flatter and who could have no inducement to flatter, that I am quite remarkable in that way. [5]

More example sentences with the word flatter in them

He believes those who flatter him, who impose on his good heart. [11]
Oh, and how well he understood how to flatter, to describe my beauty! [10]
Nobody else seemed to want to take the job, and so I took it, and I flatter myself that I made a pretty good job of it. [5]
I don't have to praise him, or to flatter him. [5]
I I intended to have signalized my first appearance by a certain large statement, which I flatter myself is the nearest approach to a universal formula, of life yet promulgated at this breakfast-table. [6]
He seemed pleased to have me around, and I used the sociable "we" a good deal, because it seemed to flatter him to be included. [5]
Mr. Crewe was to big a man not to perceive and appreciate the sterling philanthropy which lay beneath the exteriors of his new friends, who scorned to flatter him. [9]
You listen to those who flatter, and on those who would go through fire and water for you, you turn your back--on those who would help you in your hour of trouble, in your dark day. [11]
Those white roses, this white rose, had come from one who, selfish as he was, knew how to flatter a woman's vanity. [11]
But when I think that she might follow me to Pyrrhus's cliff--" "Don't flatter yourself with this hope," pleaded Gorgias. [10]
I have made the quoted remark myself, at one time and another, but I was not doing it to flatter the reader; I was merely doing it to save work. [5]
How bewitchingly he, the great Emperor, understood how to flatter, and, with the memory of the charm of his manner, the thought of the blissful hours which she had enjoyed through his love returned to her mind. [10]
Undoubtedly he disturbs the ants in their praiseworthy industry, much as his attentions may flatter them. [6]
You flatter yourself that you will make a good many enemies by leaving your old communion. [6]
I flatter myself that my tone might be worse. [9]
Don't flatter yourself that any article of yours is rejected because you are unknown to fame. [6]
March accounted for some rhetoric in this, but let it flatter him, and prepared himself for a meeting about which he could see that Fulkerson was only less nervous than he had shown himself about the public reception of the first number. [8]
I am afraid some of the blessed saints in diamonds will think I mean to flatter them. [6]
I am not saying this to flatter Mr. Twichell; it is the fact. [5]
I had much rather listen to you when you flatter me. [10]
We are the publishers of A. D. Richardson's works, and flatter ourselves that we can give an author as favorable terms and do as full justice to his productions as any other house in the country. [5]
He wasn't exactly Pinkerton, and I flatter myself that we were too many for him," said Mr. Cooke, with deserved pride; "and he went away in such a devilish hurry that he forgot his hand-bag with some of his extra things. [9]
We cannot flatter ourselves, therefore, that under equal laws and opportunities we have rubbed out the saliencies of human nature. [4]
And to flatter or cajole me, you tell me Mr. Pitt still urges on the matter. [11]
Do not, sir--do not flatter yourself that you are the only chastely-humorous writer onto the Pacific slopes. [5]
But I flatter myself there are men who would go into an ecstasy of delight if I ran a hat-pin into them. [9]
And a good many people who flatter themselves they are talking wisdom to me, are only helping me to get at the shelf and the book and the page where I shall find my own opinion about the matter in question. [6]
It would flatter Ledscha also if he went to her in this attire and, with his figure drawn up to its full height, he walked toward the door to go to the Alexandrian's tent. [10]
The purport of it is that we lost the late elections and the administration is failing because the war is unsuccessful, and that I must not flatter myself that I am not justly to blame for it. [7]
This is not intended to flatter the competing cults, it is merely a statement of cold fact. [5]
It also made him very polite when he was angry, and very angry when any one tried to impose upon him, or flatter him. [11]
How he loved her, and how delicately he could woo and flatter, and mingle with his tender speeches the costly gifts of his rich and mobile intellect! [10]
After such repulses he well knew how to flatter and coax her with appealing words, but he had never dared to defy her or to gain his end by force. [10]
I flatter myself he has really taken my advice on this subject. [7]
Barbara would fain have called to him to look at the ground and not up at the banners and escutcheons bearing his colours, whose number seemed to flatter him. [10]
Because, forsooth, my hair is white now, does Bess flatter herself I do not know her secret? [9]
The "man of great merit," who was still a novice in court circles, wishing to flatter Anna Pavlovna by defending her former position on this question, observed: "It is said that the Emperor was reluctant to give Kutuzov those powers. [2]
Neither did I flatter myself that my poor company would be any consolation for that she had lost. [9]
Nor do I flatter myself that it is only because you believe one thing, and I another. [9]
We would be flatter down than the "Negro Democracy" themselves have the heart to wish to see us. [7]
We don't know each other's secrets quite so well as we flatter ourselves we do. [6]
With a growing distaste I began to realize that all there was left for me was to flatter a populace that Krebs, paradoxically, belaboured. [9]
Aside from the desire to flatter the reader, they have another reason for making the remark-two reasons, indeed. [5]
If I had been at Louisburg--" I could not at first bring myself to flatter the vice-regal peacock; for it had been my mind to fight these Frenchmen always; to yield in nothing; to defeat them like a soldier, not like a juggler. [11]
It is only because military men are invested with pomp and power and crowds of sychophants flatter power, attributing to it qualities of genius it does not possess. [2]
Of course he'll be reasonable, but when they get to be governors they have little notions, you know, and you've got to indulge 'em, flatter 'em a little. [9]
The shears of Atropos were not more fatal to human life than the long scissors which cut the last coupon to the lean proprietor, whose slice of dry toast it served to flatter with oleomargarine. [6]
I don't flatter, as you know. [9]
I don't know anybody that I have such a desire to kick, and at the same time that I want to flatter up so much. [8]
Of course she and all the household seemed in a conspiracy to flatter and encourage the vanity of authorship. [4]
The fancy that Alma Leighton came bitterly to regret him, contributed to soothe and flatter him, and he was not sure that Margaret. [8]
S. L. C. You flatter well, Madame. [5]

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