Seek favor by fawning or flattery.
1 That is the only means of retaining the court favor .
2 What is hunger and court favor beside a broken heart and a desolate life?
3 The reason was that favoritism rather than merit had been made the road to court favor .
4 The very appearance of court favor , empty as it was, tended to render him more dangerous.
5 Monopoly went by court favor , and its rights were often scandalously let and sometimes sublet as well.
6 To fawn upon; to court favor .
7 On his arrival at London, he soon discovered that he was no longer an object of court favor .
8 For a young woman to dream that she sees acrobats in tights, signifies that she will court favor of men.
9 After this he came to Rome, where, through Maecenas, he became known to Octavius, and basked in the sunshine of court favor .
10 It is a circumstance, this court favor , worth considering in the poet's life, as the antecedent to his manifold spirit of piety.
11 Wang-sun Kiá asked him once, "What says the proverb, 'Better to court favor in the kitchen than in the drawing-room'?"
12 The two fathers repaired to Dieppe, wafted on the wind of court favor , which they never doubted would bear them to their journey s end.
13 He left the court favoring his left leg and didn't appear to put any weight on it.
14 She was the dispenser of court favors , the arbiter of fortunes, the real ruler of the land.
15 China courts favor by investing, not giving.
16 How small the chance of any man rising in the world, who did not court favors from those who had favors to bestow!
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