flattery,

I was the toast of Bath, and a great beauty, too: would you ever have thought it now, upon your conscience and without flattery,

The Great Hoggarty Diamond 2006

It took, therefore, no ordinary amount of statesmanship to guide the Haytien slave amidst the diversified plans proposed by England's flattery,

Reflections on the Life and Times of Toussaint L'Overture, the Negro Haytien, Commander-In-Chief, of the Army, Ruler Under the Dominion of France, and Author of The Independence of Hayti. David Augustus 1886

"So," said this frail daughter of Eve, greedily swallowing his flattery,

Royalty Restored 1883

A vardingale [258] of vain boast and fan of flattery,

A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 William Carew Hazlitt 1873

By permitting his feelings of security to increase, by different pretences of agreement and flattery,

The Roman History of Ammianus Marcellinus During the Reigns of the Emperors Constantius, Julian, Jovianus, Valentinian, and Valens Ammianus Marcellinus 1851

The Grave gainsays the smooth-complexion'd flattery,

The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes George Gilfillan 1845

Bending down their innocent heads, with a buzzing lore of flattery,

Man of Uz, and Other Poems Lydia Howard Sigourney 1828

A contrivance more neat, I may say, without flattery,

The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815

"Ah! lady," said Dame Gillian, whose turn for conversation never ex-tended in such cases beyond a few phrases of gross flattery,

The Betrothed Walter Scott 1801

The second of these consuls distinguished himself only by his infamous flattery,

History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 3 Edward Gibbon 1765