Indulged

Examples

• She indulged in a little laugh. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• The girls indulged unrestrained in their grief. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This harshness to one like me, who had been hitherto so spoiled and indulged, affected me with the deepest melancholy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The fact is, our servants are over-indulged. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• I do not look upon myself as either prosperous or indulged. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Thirty or forty pilgrims had arrived from the ship, by the short routes, and much swapping of gossip had to be indulged in. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This was very hard upon one, who, like myself, had been spoiled and indulged by a man, who was ever a slave to my slightest caprices! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Play then changes to fooling and if habitually indulged in is demoralizing. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Here the little man indulged in a convulsion of mirth, which was only checked by the entrance of a third party. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• All the remainder of the raiment they indulged in was utterly indescribable. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• It is difficult to believe nowadays that the order of nature indulged in any such meaningless comments. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The Knight undid the clasp of the baldric, and indulged his fellow-traveller, who immediately hung the bugle round his own neck. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• I threw myself into the chaise that was to convey me away, and indulged in the most melancholy reflections. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• In his automobile he has made long tours, and with his family has particularly indulged his taste for botany. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• They are to be turned into means of development, of carrying power forward, not indulged or cultivated for their own sake. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• All the other passions, besides this of interest, are either easily restrained, or are not of such pernicious consequence, when indulged. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• You will observe that I have not yet indulged myself in calling her by that name, even to you. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Mrs. Fisher indulged in a faint laugh at the remembrance. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It was a subject, in short, on which reflection would be long indulged, and must be unavailing. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Having dried them, and indulged in the harmless luxury of a sob and a sniff, he put it up again. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Georgiana, who had a spoiled temper, a very acrid spite, a captious and insolent carriage, was universally indulged. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Now, dear Victor, I dare say you wish to be indulged in a little gossip concerning the good people of Geneva. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• And this also, when too much indulged, will turn to softness, but, if educated rightly, will be gentle and moderate. Plato. The Republic.
• A low laugh escaped her--the third utterance which the girl had indulged in tonight. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Mrs. Pryor never paid compliments, and seldom indulged in remarks, favourable or otherwise, on personal appearance. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Its essential use as then contemplated was as a substitute for stenographers, and the most extravagant fancies were indulged in as to utility in that field. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Whenever I looked towards the past, I saw some duty neglected, or some failing indulged. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Do you think the minds which are suffered, which are indulged in wanderings in a chapel, would be more collected in a closet? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• The hope is indulged that by some such means we may indeed yet receive the touch of a vanished hand and the sound of a voice that is still. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Having indulged in this imaginary peregrination for some considerable interval, she became impressed with a sense of the intolerable slowness of time. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.

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