He hated truckling, obsequious, cringing hypocrites. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Negro Race in America from 1619 to 1880. Vol. 2 (of 2) Negroes as Slaves, as Soldiers, and as Citizens] Reference
I do hate that truckling to what they call Democracy!. From Wordnik.com. [Maid in Waiting] Reference
September 15, 2006 @ 6: 27 pm keep on truckling, nora. From Wordnik.com. [Swimmingly? « A Bird’s Nest] Reference
Alabama upbraided the Northern delegates for truckling to the. From Wordnik.com. [A Political History of the State of New York, Volumes 1-3] Reference
But there was one crime to which he was unforgiving -- the truckling to slavery. From Wordnik.com. [The Lincoln Story Book] Reference
A truckling California legislature unsuccessfully tried to fasten his name upon Lake Tahoe. From Wordnik.com. [Mormon Settlement in Arizona A Record of Peaceful Conquest of the Desert] Reference
In the previous summer, even while truckling with Fredrik, he had been in steady communication with. From Wordnik.com. [The Swedish Revolution Under Gustavus Vasa] Reference
Oxbridge, when he was truckling to the tufts, and bullying the poor undergraduates in the lecture-room. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Pendennis] Reference
Elizabethan audience demanded them, and they were to that extent a truckling to convention, an insincerity. From Wordnik.com. [Personality in Literature] Reference
As one Pakistani official in Washington put it, "Ayub no longer had to do the political truckling his predecessors did.". From Wordnik.com. [India and Pakistan] Reference
"Time" Mangazine listed Ann Coulter in its annual "100 Most Influencial Carbon Based Life Forms" listing with the usual truckling coverage. From Wordnik.com. [The Chimes at Midnight] Reference
It is not a suggestion but an order, a fiat, a command, so we see this free nation really truckling to or dominated by a class of tradesmen. From Wordnik.com. [As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home] Reference
They would demonstrate the half-heartedness on this matter of the North, as represented by its President Lincoln, and the hypocrisy or truckling of. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
Of the Romish faith himself, he would have no hand in plots against his lawful Queen, and no truckling to the cruel bigot who sat upon the throne of Spain. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
The governor, sensitive to old-fashioned political ideas like not truckling to Washington, and still out of touch with the full scope of the hurricane's damage, turned him down. From Wordnik.com. [What Went Wrong] Reference
The government is truckling to the false hierarchy of Rome. From Wordnik.com. [The Kellys and the O'Kellys] Reference
"But that's what you are doing -- truckling to the English.". From Wordnik.com. [The French Prisoners of Norman Cross A Tale] Reference
O you crawling, truckling, self-confessed lackeys and parasites!. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
Roberts, basely truckling to him: "It was certainly a ludicrous position.". From Wordnik.com. [The Albany Depot : a Farce] Reference
It was, perhaps, more dangerous; but less shameless, and less like truckling. From Wordnik.com. [Susy, a story of the Plains] Reference
I will none of such truckling, disgraceful to the dead perhaps as to the living. From Wordnik.com. [Waverley Novels — Volume 12] Reference
The only people Obama is nice to are our enemies - and they repay his truckling by spitting in our eye. From Wordnik.com. [Blogs For Victory] Reference
'Can you bring my mother alive by the truckling and cajoling and setting lying prince against lying prince?. From Wordnik.com. [The Fifth Queen Crowned] Reference
To what miserable inconsistencies and rubbish this truckling to opposite opinions leads the great generaliser!. From Wordnik.com. [More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1] Reference
The ambition with which I had sought the truckling Frenchman revived, and took worthier and more definite form. From Wordnik.com. [The Caxtons — Complete] Reference
Clement V himself and the ecclesiastical judges were both unfortunately guilty of truckling in the whole affair. From Wordnik.com. [The Inquisition A Critical and Historical Study of the Coercive Power of the Church] Reference
But for our political alliance with the North we of the South would have to be one of the most truckling of nations. From Wordnik.com. [The Hindered Hand or, The Reign of the Repressionist] Reference
It is a base and disgusting truckling to allies between whom and themselves there is nothing but mutual hatred and contempt. From Wordnik.com. [The Greville Memoirs (Second Part) A Journal of the Reign of Queen Victoria from 1837 to 1852 (Volume 1 of 3)] Reference
See Bacon himself: what black ingratitude! what miserable self-seeking! what truckling servility! what abject and pitiful spirit!. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
Above all, the man had organized and developed his companies without the aid of the "System" or without truckling to its votaries. From Wordnik.com. [Frenzied Finance Vol. 1: The Crime of Amalgamated] Reference
Two centuries of squabblings and strugglings with Dutch settlers and with Portuguese settlers, of desperate truckling to native princes. From Wordnik.com. [A History of the Four Georges, Volume II (of 4)] Reference
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