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fawned all over her
Definition
showing excessive flattery or affection
- A rout undisciplined, a straggling train, Not born to glories of the dusty plain; Like frighted fawns from hill to hill pursued, A prey to every savage of the wood: Shall these, so late who trembled at your name, Invade your camps, involve your ships in flame?Book 13 (16% in)
- Finds, on some grassy lair, the couching fawns, Their bones he cracks, their reeking vitals draws, And grinds the quivering flesh with bloody jaws; The frighted hind beholds, and dares not stay, But swift through rustling thickets bursts her way; All drown'd in sweat, the panting mother flies, And the big tears roll trickling from her eyes.Book 11 (19% in)
There are no more uses of "fawn" flagged with this meaning in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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- His eagle, sacred bird of heaven! he sent, A fawn his talons truss'd, (divine portent!Book 8 (44% in)
There are no more uses of "fawn" in The Iliad by Homer - (translated by: Pope).
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