Pleases

Examples

• His employment may, upon most occasions, be as constant as he pleases. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• It is from my cousin, Mr. Collins, who, when I am dead, may turn you all out of this house as soon as he pleases. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It pleases me, she said. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Now the pleasure of a stranger, for whom we have no friendship, pleases us only by sympathy. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Ursula does exactly as she pleases. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He arranges the business just as he pleases. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Margaret told me so, and I know what pleases him. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Now man might return to the stage-coach if that seemed to him the supreme goal of all his effort, just as anyone can follow Chesterton's advice to turn back the hands of the clock if he pleases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Now just let her say anything she pleases to-night. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• So be it, since it pleases you. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• He may say what he pleases. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I require little sleep, and it pleases me on a fine night to wander for an hour or two with my musket about the hollow. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I don't mind telling you that she does now, at least I let her think so, it pleases her, you know. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Bertha can already make her believe anything she pleases--and I'm afraid she's begun, my poor child, by insinuating horrors about you. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• And where freedom is, the individual is clearly able to order for himself his own life as he pleases? Plato. The Republic.
• It brushes the Newgate cobwebs away, and pleases the Aged. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• De Hamal is most worthless, yet I fear he pleases her: wretched delusion! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Let Harriette please herself, or rather, Harriette must do as God pleases about loving me, but my affection for her cannot change. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Ever a slave, ever desired, she is thrown from the one to the other, as it pleases them, unable to free herself from such degradation. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• If the interpretation pleases you, you are welcome to hold it valid. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• A likeness pleases every body; and Miss Woodhouse's performances must be capital. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Whatever pleases you, pleases me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• I say, Marie, let the child alone; she shall do as she pleases, said St. Clare. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Or if she'd leave him alone, and let him arrange his life as he pleases. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• You can't think how it pleases him. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• She does what she pleases. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Something will be done ere long, I fear, which it by no means pleases me to think of. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Eager to further enjoy this new delicacy, Char-Lee proceeded to feast himself, and it was then he found that pork not only pleases and gratifies--but satisfies. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• Because it pleases me mightily to cry, she said. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I believe Wellington will flog Bonaparte's marshals into the sea the day it pleases him to lift his arm. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Edited by Jonathan