| We have all smiled at the adulations of an ancient preface and the arrogance which too often baulked the poor writer's hopes. |
| I prefer open attacks to the foolish praise and adulations of friends, for, the truth is, flattery is always paid for. |
| A few days before, the adulations and applauses of a nation were sounding in her ears, and now she was come to this! |
| But we neither sought their friendship, nor coveted their adulations. |
| The heaping up of adulations, of which this mele is a capital instance, was not peculiar to Hawaiian poetry. |
| Afterwards the memory of these adulations was a great sadness. |
