1 He received me in his usual fawning way, and pretended not to have heard of my arrival from Mr. Micawber; a pretence I took the liberty of disbelieving.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP 2 'You haven't need to say so much, nor half so much, nor anything at all,' observed Uriah, half defiant, and half fawning.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP 3 A moment afterwards, he was as fawning and as humble as ever.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 52. I ASSIST AT AN EXPLOSION 4 They did not attack my men, but wagged their great tails, fawned upon them, and rubbed their noses lovingly against them.
5 As a matter of course, they fawned upon me in my prosperity with the basest meanness.
6 The sailors, mostly poor devils, cringed, and some of them fawned before him; in obedience to his instructions, sometimes rendering him personal homage, as to a god.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story. 7 Scarlett thought she had never seen such elegant pants as he wore, fawn colored, shepherd's plaid, and checked.
8 She held up her hands, strong, shapely hands, and surveyed them critically, drawing up her fawn sleeves above the wrists.
9 Uncas, you are right; the dark-hair has been here, and she has fled like a frightened fawn, to the wood; none who could fly would remain to be murdered.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 18 10 On the face of this there was a device that shewed a dog holding a spotted fawn between his fore paws, and watching it as it lay panting upon the ground.
11 Every one marvelled at the way in which these things had been done in gold, the dog looking at the fawn, and strangling it, while the fawn was struggling convulsively to escape.
12 There was something of the fawn in her shy grace and startled eyes.
13 Then he took his place in the first row of the stalls and sat down beside Dolokhov, nudging with his elbow in a friendly and offhand way that Dolokhov whom others treated so fawningly.