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I very soon saw that he was on excellent terms with Semyonov, and this could only be, I was sure, because Semyonov had been flattering him.

From The Secret City by Walpole, Hugh, Sir

It remained that Thomas Batchgrew had been flattering her.

From The Price of Love by Bennett, Arnold

And yet all the while I had been flattering myself that he had been completely hoodwinked.

From The Man Without a Memory by Marchmont, Arthur W. (Arthur Williams)

The contrast between him and herself had been flattering to her vanity.

From December Love by Hichens, Robert Smythe

We had been flattering ourselves that we had discovered a new “outlook,” and we came a bad cropper.

From Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905 by Various