"Curry favor" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... opportunities offered, and they were indefatigable in making these offer; they robbed by actual force, whenever force would avail; and more obsequious lick-spittles to power never existed—they were perpetually on the look-out for a chance to curry favor by betraying some plan or scheme to those ...
— Andersonville, complete • John McElroy
... the boys to whom the question was referred said they thought he would, while others expressed a different opinion. Among the latter were two or three who were anxious to curry favor with Porter. ...
— From Wealth to Poverty • Austin Potter
... to such foolishness," cried the girl. "I might have expected naught better from a turncoat foreign knave such as thee, who once joined in the councils of De Montfort, and then betrayed his friends to curry favor with the King." ...
— The Outlaw of Torn • Edgar Rice Burroughs
... country they have passed; for if they afforded a ready asylum for runaway slaves, the traders might be deserted at any moment, and stripped of their property altogether. They are thus obliged to curry favor with the chiefs, so as to get a safe conduct from them. The same system is adopted to induce the chiefs to part with their people, whom all feel to be the real source of their importance in the country. On the return of ...
— Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa - Journeys and Researches in South Africa • David Livingstone
... you have licked the best fellow in the school, and then you begin to play saint, and curry favor with the colonel. You mean to lead, ...
— In School and Out - or, The Conquest of Richard Grant. • Oliver Optic |
