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But I learned as little about Herman from these flatteries as I did from Einhorn’s gushing cliches.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 11, 2021

Among these young persons are beautiful girls, daughters of wealthy families, rejoicing in all the gifts of nature and the flatteries of society.

From The Marquis of Pe?alta (Marta y Mar?a) A Realistic Social Novel by Palacio Vald?s, Armando

His steadfast refusal to renounce either his faith or his party, in spite of flatteries, threats, promises and persuasions, had raised him to the proud position of a Protestant martyr.

From Rupert Prince Palatine by Scott, Eva

To the innocent flatteries of the neophytes he opposes a resolute front.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

"That makes your peace," said she, much to my relief, for this work of gallantry was ever discomforting to me, my flatteries being of the heaviest and causing me no small labour in the making.

From The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)