The sly little woman understood that her confidence would flatter the boy and from that moment he would ponder on how to free the elephant.
"In Desert and Wilderness"
Henryk Sienkiewicz
'I have been helping Manley, Mr. Polycarp Jenks,' she says to me, 'and I flatter myself I have done as well as any man could do.
"Lonesome Land"
B. M. Bower
As for me, I am most unfortunate, for nobody ever did anything but flatter me.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma