I cannot range myself among those adulators who have accused the persons about him with having dissuaded him from peace.
"Memoirs of Napoleon Bonaparte, v12"
Louis Antoine Fauvelet de Bourrienne
The very princes of the Confederation of the Rhine, hitherto the most sycophantic flatterers of the emperor, had likewise turned away from him; all the allies, adulators, and friends of his days of prosperity had left him, as rats desert the sinking ship.
"NAPOLEON AND BLUCHER"
L. Muhlbach
Yet we know very well that the Roman senate at that time was not composed merely of adulators and hirelings; it still included many men of intelligence and character.
"The Women of the Caesars"
Guglielmo Ferrero