The demagogues, to
curry favour with the people, drive the nobles to conspire together, either by dividing their estates, or obliging them to spend them on public services, or by banishing them, that they may confiscate the fortunes of the wealthy.
Looking into the eyes of Mrs and Miss Wackles for encouragement, and sitting very upright and uncomfortable on a couple of hard stools, were two of the day-scholars; and when Miss Wackles smiled, and Mrs Wackles smiled, the two little girls on the stools sought to
curry favour by smiling likewise, in gracious acknowledgement of which attention the old lady frowned them down instantly, and said that if they dared to be guilty of such an impertinence again, they should be sent under convoy to their respective homes.
With despair I pictured to myself how coldly and disdainfully that "scoundrel" Zverkov would meet me; with what dull-witted, invincible contempt the blockhead Trudolyubov would look at me; with what impudent rudeness the insect Ferfitchkin would snigger at me in order to
curry favour with Zverkov; how completely Simonov would take it all in, and how he would despise me for the abjectness of my vanity and lack of spirit--and, worst of all, how paltry, unliterary, commonplace it would all be.
He has been attempting to
curry favour and reinstate himself in the good graces of the captain by carrying tales of the men forward.
He would make the worst of things to
curry favour. And then my son-in-law, the husband of my Parasha, who is a writer in the Government Domain office; they would soon kick him out--and maybe send him away somewhere." The old man lamented the necessities of the times--"when people do not agree somehow" and wiped his eyes.
``Or, if so please you,'' said Isaac, willing to
curry favour with the outlaws, ``I can send to York for the six hundred crowns, out of certain monies in my hands, if so be that the most reverend Prior present will grant me a quittance.''
Falk isn't a man to make mistakes unless on purpose." His firm conviction was that Falk had been trying all along to
curry favour on the cheap with Hermann.
I was very well content as I was, and I wasn't going to sham religious to
curry favour with the Doctor, or any one else."
After the first few days, when he didn't know anybody, he re- ceived me as if I had come either to gloat over an enemy or else to
curry favour with a deeply wronged person.
However decoding what Jeremy Clarkson has said it's my belief he is trying to "
curry favour" with the Queen.
My thoughts then turned to the billions of pounds promised by the M to
curry favour with the electorate - were they equally "fantastic" ie promises easily made but never fulfilled unless subject to 110% rise in the economy subject to a" no deal" Brexit !
She apparently told friends she believes Leissner 'instigated the relationship to
curry favour with Malaysia's political elite'.