Gratify

Examples

• Take me with you, I said, just to gratify my curiosity. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• People will pay as freely to gratify one passion as another, their resentment as their pride. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In fact it seemed to be pleasanter to him to disappoint than to gratify. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Caliphronas, as I have told you, is a scamp, and will pause at nothing to gratify his own desire. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Lily was quite ready to gratify this curiosity, but it happened that she was dining out. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Frame a wish and gratify it, my daughter. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Why did she leave him standing there, with the ice-wind blowing through his heart, like death, to gratify herself among the rosy snow-tips? D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• He now smiled: and not a bitter or a sad smile, but one well pleased and deeply gratified. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• If you will put it in the fire with your own hand, just as it is, my fancy will be gratified. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The inclination I had felt for the sea was by this time done away, or I might now have gratified it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• A man may, from various motives, decline to give his company, but perhaps not even a sage would be gratified that nobody missed him. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I am happy--I am gratified--I am delighted--I am bored. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Blowed if the gen'lm'n worn't a-gettin' up on the wrong side,' whispered a grinning post-boy to the inexpressibly gratified waiter. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• I was born with the tastes of a lady, and he gratified them--in other words, he admired me, and he made me presents. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Sir James interpreted the heightened color in the way most gratifying to himself, and thought he never saw Miss Brooke looking so handsome. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• It was gratifying to have inspired unconsciously so strong an affection. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• To a man of my sentiments it is unspeakably gratifying to be able to say this. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It is a significant and gratifying fact that Confederates should have joined heartily in this spontaneous move. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• Are you consulting your own feelings in the present case, or do you imagine that you are gratifying mine? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• She then changed the discourse to one more gratifying to each, and on which there could be no difference of sentiment. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• I say I did not resent it, nor did I; but I showed her, by not gratifying her, that I understood her. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Their behaviour gratifies me. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Caliphronas, he said at length slowly, is a man who is a slave to his own vices, and gratifies himself at all costs. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• 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.

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