"Curry favor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... he said, "is trying to curry favor by pretending he knows your plans. If he succeeds in worming into your confidence and persuading you to make plans to escape with him, they will feel justified in putting you in jail—and that, I understand, is where ...
— The Ivory Trail • Talbot Mundy
... Ritter Christoph Wilibald von Gluck, is almost as interesting to us as the musician. He moved in the society of princes with a calm and haughty dignity, their conscious peer, and never prostituted his art to gain personal advancement or to curry favor with the great ones of the earth. He possessed a majesty of nature which was the combined effect of personal pride, a certain lofty self-reliance, and a deep conviction that he was the apostle of ...
— The Great German Composers • George T. Ferris
... type of man eager to curry favor with those in authority. He decided he would gain the ear of the great Calomares first. That would detract somewhat from the glory of the other when he arrived. Turning he darted ...
— The Radio Boys on the Mexican Border • Gerald Breckenridge
... is here; it is high time that I should dress for the banquet. Will that naughty child not listen to me at all? Take him away, Praxinoa, and understand distinctly that I am much dissatisfied with you. You estrange my own child from me to curry favor with the future king. That is base, or else it proves that you have no tact, and are incompetent for the office entrusted to you. The office of wet-nurse you duly fulfilled, but I shall now look out for another attendant for the boy. Do not answer me! no tears! ...
— Uarda • Georg Ebers
... on the professor's face became instantly harder as he said, "I fawncy the effort to curry favor with the various members of the faculty is not very popular ...
— Winning His "W" - A Story of Freshman Year at College • Everett Titsworth Tomlinson
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