... “I do not complain,” continued the princess, in a tone of voice full of gentleness; “I prefer a frankness that wounds me, to flattery, which would deceive me... 
Alexandre Dumas, Pere 「Ten Years Later」
...He had become conscious of a puzzled look in the Rangar's eyes--of a subtle wonderment that might be intentional flattery (for Art and the East are one)...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
... The mullah bowed as if that idea were a new one and he thought it better than his own; for all crowds love flattery...
Talbot Mundy 「King--of the Khyber Rifles」
...The Mandingoes, in particular, are a verygentle race, cheerful in their dispositions, inquisitive,credulous, simple, and fond of flattery...
Mungo Park 「Travels in the Interior of Africa, Vol. 2 [of 2]」
...He sang all our praises in very nice Haussa words,and indulged in the most extraordinary flattery Iever heard...
James Richardson 「Narrative of a Mission to Central Africa Performed in the Years 1850-51, Volume 2」
...This was not flattery, because each one of these individuals knew that he had nothing to gain by trying to flatter me...
Booker T. Washington 「Up From Slavery: An Autobiography」
...Rena, for it was our Patesville acquaintance fresh fromboarding-school, colored deeply at this frank and fervid flattery, andcould only murmur an inarticulate reply...
Charles W. Chesnutt 「The House Behind the Cedars」
...“There are degrees of flattery even in your flattering...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905」
...You need a certain sort of appreciation to work well—and wanting appreciation, you put up with flattery...
Various 「Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905」
... Nevertheless, I doubt if such simplicity would be agreeable to French vanity, to that inordinate love of distinction and flattery which makes our nation the most frivolous in the world...
P. J. Proudhon 「What is Property?」
...But perhaps the birds arenot so sensitive as their humanbrothers, who do not always look uponimitation as the highest flattery...
Various 「Birds Illustrated by Color Photography [June, 1897]」
...She is then introduced toColonel Chartres, and by artful flattery and liberal promises, becomes intoxicated withthe dreams of imaginary greatness...
John Trusler 「The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings」
...No one could induce me by prayer or flattery not to go to the foreign land to see his nobles and that king whose fame is so great for courtesy and prowess...
Chretien DeTroyes 「Four Arthurian Romances」
...There is, however, a clear passage fromCape Flattery to those Islands, and even quite out to the outer Reefs,leaving the above Islands to the South-East and Lizard Island to theNorth-West...
James Cook 「Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World」
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