Indulging

Examples

• The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• If you quote David Hume at them, and say that reason itself is an irrational impulse they think you are indulging in a silly paradox. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mrs. Weston, with her baby on her knee, indulging in such reflections as these, was one of the happiest women in the world. Jane Austen. Emma.
• They were merely indulging in the ordinary vivacious chat of relatives who have long been parted in person though not in soul. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• It was an indescribable luxury to find myself indulging in earnest conversation with serious persons. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• He felt somehow ashamed of this paternal softness and hid it from his wife--only indulging in it when alone with the boy. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• People in high life have all the luxuries to themselves--among others, the luxury of indulging their feelings. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• In a strange and new sense, I grew most selfish, and quite powerless to deny myself the delight of indulging his mood, and being pliant to his will. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• But indulging your children is one thing, and finding money to pay their debts is another. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I know the danger of indulging such speculations. Jane Austen. Emma.
• These weaklings became self-excusing, self-indulging scoundrels. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He had now an opportunity of indulging in the society of those friends whom his merits had procured him while at a distance. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• We have been, said Mr. Wopsle, exalted with his late performance,--we have been indulging, Mr. Orlick, in an intellectual evening. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.

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