Deserving

Examples

• And I am glad of another thing, and that is, that of course you know you may depend upon my keeping it and always so far deserving it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• She is engaged to be married to a most worthy and deserving man in her own station of life. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• She made him, by her acceptance, as happy even as he is deserving. Jane Austen. Emma.
• And should you like to be always taken care of here, if you were industrious and deserving? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• And while he is deserving of gratitude for his actions in the early part of the movement and up until the most recent time-- Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• This was not satisfactory, but I regarded it as deserving another letter and wrote him as follows: April 8, 1865. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• How could you suppose that my first thought would not fly towards those dear, dear friends whom I love, and who are so deserving of my love. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He could never rest till he had made the excellent, deserving Sophia his lawful wife. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Pleasant sheds tears deserving her own name, and her sweet delusion is at its height. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• His regard for her was quite imaginary; and the possibility of her deserving her mother's reproach prevented his feeling any regret. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• When a man gets a good berth, mother, half the deserving must come after, said the son, brimful of pleasure, and not trying to conceal it. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Three points are deserving of remark in what immediately follows:--First, that the answer of Socrates is altogether indirect. Plato. The Republic.
• And thus it was that deserving officer, Captain Kirk, was disappointed of his majority. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• More deserving of it? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Be gentle with those who are less lucky, if not more deserving. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• I only wish,' said Bella, 'I was more deserving of it. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Why should she lose a pleasure which she has shewn herself so deserving of? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Miss Lucy Steele is, I dare say, a very deserving young woman, but in the present case you know, the connection must be impossible. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• They were so deserving, that a _little_ higher should have been enough: but as it was, how could she have done otherwise? Jane Austen. Emma.
• Your son is a most deserving young man, very much so indeed, Sir. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I never could say it as I wish--I never shall--but-- I had to think again of being more deserving of his love and his affliction before I could go on. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• His services and qualifications are eminently deserving of this recognition. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I never was against the deserving. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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