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Sentences starting with flattered

Flattered by these fancies, she forgot every care as she walked faster and faster to and fro in her tent. [10]

Sentences ending with flattered

She was at once terrified, excited--and flattered. [9]
Our conceit is flattered. [4]
You ought to be flattered. [9]

Short sentences using flattered

Pierre felt flattered by this. [2]
This flattered Prince Andrew. [2]
Read, flattered, honored? [6]

Sentences containing flattered two or more times

She was at once flattered and annoyed, flattered, because, as a woman, Stephen had conceded her a mind. [9]

More example sentences with the word flattered in them

I said you would recognize me presently and come over; and I'm glad you did, for I shouldn't have felt much flattered if you had gone out of this room without recognizing me. [5]
He went away with vanity flattered by the sense of having been appealed to concerning Margaret, and then he began to chafe at what she had said of Wetmore's honesty, apropos of her wish that he still had a class himself. [8]
I am flattered with the personal regard you manifested for me; but I do hope that, on more mature reflection, you will view the public interest as a paramount consideration, and therefore determine to let the worst come. [7]
He flattered her with so much tact, that she thought she heard an unconscious echo through his lips of an admiration which he only shared with all around him. [6]
The peculiar charm which her individuality thus obtained corresponded with the idea which the monarch himself had formed of the expected guest, and it flattered him to hear his conjecture so remarkably confirmed. [10]
Yet that Memnon was flattered by the notice of that statuette; he says so--says so himself. [5]
Did he dare to turn and open those books which she had inspired,--the new philosophies, the historical criticisms which he had neglected and condemned, which he had flattered himself he could do without,--and read of the fruit of Knowledge? [9]
Well they knew that the lady they flattered was the future Mrs. Hugh Chiltern. [9]
This wonderful glass showed Ulrich for the first time his whole figure and the image which looked back at him from the crystal, flattered and pleased him. [10]
A self-complacent ass, ready to be flattered out of your senses by every petticoat that chooses to take the trouble to do it! [5]
It seemed scarcely possible, and yet it flattered and pleased her. [10]
The soldiers were pleased by the Pharaoh's sending his own carriage for their commander, and the lad's vanity was flattered to see his uncle drive away in such state. [10]
The Arab's fine pleasant voice, full of sincere cordiality, and the simple distinction and dignity of his manner appealed to Orion, flattered him, gave him confidence, and attracted him to the older man who was, besides, a valiant hero. [10]
He flattered the people by remitting their taxes, by large gifts and larger promises, and finding his clemency gratefully recognized, determined on an imposture, by which he hoped to win the crown of Persia for his own family. [10]
It put him on his mettle, and yet he knew she read him deeper than any one else, and flattered him least. [11]
He, who had often felt flattered at being praised for the purity of his Greek--pure not merely for his time: an age of bastard tongues--and for the engaging Hellenism of his person, here and now had an impulse of pride of his Egyptian origin. [10]
You couldn't conceive of the Matterhorn being flattered by the notice of one of your comely little English hills, could you? [5]
In the course of conversation he mentioned Moscow and questioned Balashev about the Russian capital, not merely as an interested traveler asks about a new city he intends to visit, but as if convinced that Balashev, as a Russian, must be flattered by his curiosity. [2]
Mr. Wharton had not believed, nor had I flattered myself that I should be able to bring such a fox as General Wilkinson to earth. [9]
I had flattered myself that I should be able to control Maude, to govern her predilections, and now at the very beginning of our married life she was showing a disquieting tendency to choose for herself. [9]
I was too much flattered to make an exposure and throw the merchandise on the angel's hands. [5]
She might have moved in well-trodden ways, through gardens of pleasure, lived a life where all would be made easy, where she would be shielded at every turn, and her beauty would be flattered by luxury into a constant glow. [11]
In the dramatic method the characters appear, and show what they are by what they do and say; the reader studies their motives, and a part of his enjoyment is in analyzing them, and his vanity is flattered by the trust reposed in his perspicacity. [4]
It came over me most uncomfortably that maybe I had made my revelations for nothing, besides being flattered into stretching them considerably by the stranger's astonished exclamations. [5]
Naturally it flattered me into being more loyal to Shakespeare--if possible--than I was before, and more prejudiced against Bacon--if possible--that I was before. [5]
You have flattered me in that, I doubt not, but still here is a chance to prove yourself sincere. [11]
And the young man would have been surprised and flattered if he had known how much her indulgence of him in this talk was due to her genuine liking for him. [4]
Prince Andrew, who liked to help young men, was flattered by being asked for his assistance and being well disposed toward Boris, who had managed to please him the day before, he wished to do what the young man wanted. [2]
Masses are rude, lame, unmade, pernicious in their demands, and need not to be flattered, but to be schooled. [6]
They were as humble as animals to me; and when I proposed to breakfast with them, they were so flattered, so overwhelmed by this extraordinary condescension of mine that at first they were not able to believe that I was in earnest. [5]
She flattered herself, however, that she could lighten his gravity if she had the right and the good opportunity; the more so that he no longer visited the cottage in the Place du Vier Prison. [11]
They had attended his brilliant wedding, and it had flattered his vanity to show them what he could accomplish as the wealthy Eysvogel's son-in-law. [10]
How it flattered his ambition, what a way to all activity it opened out to him! [10]
That the poet himself was flattered by these marks of public favor may be inferred from the growing confidence with which he expressed himself in his conversations with Cyprian, more especially in one which was held at the "store" where he officiated as "clerk. [6]
If he flattered himself that he had done her a favour, if he entertained the notion that he could presently take advantage of the contact with her now achieved to make unbusinesslike advances--well, he would find out. [9]
It came to him that perhaps the Khalifa meant to take Macnamara for his own servant, for it flattered his vanity to have a white man at his stirrup and on his mat. [11]
Here, good Gibbus--come here!--Now, just consider: supposing you had flattered some one so grossly that you had offended him instead of pleasing him: How would you explain the state of affairs in telling me of it? [10]
This conjecture flattered her vanity and reconciled her to the step which she had taken and already began to regret. [10]
In this mood he was more impressive than I had ever known him, and his confidence flattered and thrilled me. [9]
I might easily have flattered myself on being an object of interest to the eyes of nations. [11]
Certainly Dyck Calhoun had not flattered her. [11]
I suppose he had flattered himself that I was really entertaining one set of opinions for one place, and another set for another place; that I was afraid to say at one place what I uttered at another. [7]
It was a great point too that Kit himself was flattered by the sensation he created, and after several efforts to preserve his gravity, burst into a loud roar, and so stood with his mouth wide open and his eyes nearly shut, laughing violently. [12]
When he was gone I went to the Governor, and, with great show of interest in many things pertaining to the government (for he has ever been flattered by my attentions--me, poor little bee in the buzzing hive! [11]
After his return from Virginia he and his exploits were the subject of many a stage play and spectacle, but whether his vanity was more flattered by this mark of notoriety than his piety was offended we do not know. [4]
It was well for her, perhaps, that others had flattered her into a certain consciousness of her own value. [6]
The young man, flattered, sat down nearer to her with a coquettish smile, and engaged the smiling Julie in a confidential conversation without at all noticing that his involuntary smile had stabbed the heart of Sonya, who blushed and smiled unnaturally. [2]
Judge Douglas, you flattered yourself that you had evaded the Question. [9]
I was not flattered then, but cursed myself for the quaint awkwardness in my speech that amused her. [9]
His pride was flattered that they should receive protection from him, and the flattery became almost a canonising when De Carteret of St. Ouen's brought him to task for harbouring and comforting the despised Huguenots; for when De Carteret railed he was envious. [11]
The Seigneur was flattered out of all reason. [11]
Most men had flattered her, had yielded to her; this man, either with art or instinctively, mastered her, secured her interest by his personality. [11]
Other men had flattered her vanity, had given her a sense of power, had made her understand her possibilities, but nothing more--nothing of what Varley brought with him. [11]
I was rather flattered by the tribute paid to me, and my future was spoken of gravely and as kindly as possible,--indeed, with remarkable charity, considering that the minister was not aware of my presence. [4]
Doubtless she felt flattered by the consciousness of attracting even the sovereign's glance, but what she intended to do immediately was for the purpose of compelling another person to watch her steps with fear and admiration. [10]
All, parties are flattered by it and politics are forgotten in the presence of one so distinguished among his fellows. [5]
Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between the Almighty and them. [7]
It did not escape her, while she did so, that she attracted all eyes wherever she went, and however much this flattered and pleased her at first, it spoilt many of her pleasures, when the Romans, young and old, began to follow and court her. [10]
It never once entered her mind to accept him; but still it flattered her extremely that the greatest of men should declare his love for her. [10]
It would seem difficult for a man so flattered from his earliest days to be modest in his self-estimate; but Motley was never satisfied with himself. [6]
He flattered her deftly--not that she was pressed unduly, he was too wise for that. [11]
He had no deeper design than to get flattered back into his own favor far enough to find courage for some sort of decisive step. [8]
Here was Philip, deep in conversation with the man he had mocked at, and Alexander was flattered by seeing that wise and famous Serapion, in whose powers he himself believed, was talking almost humbly to his brother, as though to a superior. [10]
I was flattered by the confidence these men seemed to have in my ability. [9]
Then she made bold to ask whether he were the great Roman physician, and he replied with a flattered and kindly smile that he was sometimes so called. [10]
The preparations had been pleasant enough, and the prospect of sharing the same bench with the sons of noblemen and aristocratic citizens, flattered his unity; but when he saw his father depart, his heart melted and his eyes grew wet. [10]
His cupidity had been flattered by the unpaid service of a capable assistant, but now he saw that he was paying the devil a wage. [11]
Her pride had been appeased, her vanity satisfied, her intellect flattered, her skill approved, and Ian was hers. [11]
She was still beautiful, everybody said, and she was sought and flattered, because she was always merry and good-natured. [4]
He serenaded her balcony at night, and at one time was flattered by the appearance of something white at a window. [4]
His wife's demands astonished him, but they also flattered him, and he submitted to them. [2]
Michel had not approved of Lempriere's mummery of defence, but he understood from what good spirit it sprung, and how it flattered the Seigneur's vanity to make show of resistance. [11]
She possessed intelligence and fascination, she was a woman whose attentions would have flattered and disturbed any man with a spark of virility, and Hodder had constantly before his eyes the spectacle of others paying her court. [9]
He believed that Alma was vexed with him for more personal reasons than she had implied; it flattered him that she should have resented what he told her of the Dryfooses. [8]
One must not allow himself to be flattered into an overestimate of his powers because he gets many letters expressing a peculiar attraction towards his books, and a preference of them to those with which he would not have dared to compare his own. [6]
When, much later, "Uncle" rode up to Nicholas and began talking to him, he felt flattered that, after what had happened, "Uncle" deigned to speak to him. [2]

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