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showing excessive flattery or affection
- The sailors, mostly poor devils, cringed, and some of them fawned before him; in obedience to his instructions, sometimes rendering him personal homage, as to a god.Chapters 70-72 -- The Sphynx; The Jeroboam's Story; The Monkey-Rope (40% in)
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