Pleased

Examples

• The sitting was altogether very satisfactory; she was quite enough pleased with the first day's sketch to wish to go on. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Lady Bertram was very well pleased to have it so, and the young ladies were in spirits again. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Do you know, sir--do you know for truth--that it has pleased God to take her? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• There was a pleased bustle all though the Shelby mansion, that day, in expectation of the arrival of young Mas'r George. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Anselmo was happy now and he was very pleased that he had stayed there at the post of observation. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• He now smiled: and not a bitter or a sad smile, but one well pleased and deeply gratified. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Landlords and farmers, besides, two of the largest classes of masters, have another reason for being pleased with dear years. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• I am sure she will be pleased with the children. Jane Austen. Emma.
• I can't send a bellman about, to cry aloud and proclaim in the streets what you are pleased to call my heroism. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• I suffered her to do as she pleased. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Among others who went was the Secretary of War, who seemed much pleased at the result of his campaign. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• I am pleased you like flowers, observed the Rector, looking at the joyous figure before him, which was bathed in sunshine; 'tis an innocent pleasure. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The word pleased him, he felt he had come to his own conclusions. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Those who are habituated to the--ha--Marshalsea, are pleased to call me its father. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• She was not the better pleased with his gallantry from the idea it suggested of something more. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• If I had been round the world since we parted, we could hardly have been better pleased to meet again. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Nancy (who has a fine appetite) looked pleased. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• You never heard father in such voice as he is at present,' said Mrs Plornish, her own voice quavering, she was so proud and pleased. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• You showed me how insufficient were all my pretensions to please a woman worthy of being pleased. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But this is how one historian, soaked with the fantastic political ideas of our times, is pleased to write of this evil expedition. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• I gently opened the door so as not to disturb him, and spoke my few parting words in low tones, which he might hear or not, as he pleased. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He was pleased by that. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Mrs Boffin will be very well pleased,' said the Secretary in a perfectly composed way. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Crawford was excessively pleased. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• She was pleased that he said, so simply, that she was a remarkable woman. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• But altogether, George was highly pleased with his day's business. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The Lord has been pleased to put me beyond all that. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Bingley was ready, Georgiana was eager, and Darcy determined, to be pleased. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• It pleased him to think that he should be its chief. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• She would wander out at night to get food, and returned home, pleased that she had met no one, that she was in no danger from the plague. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

Typist: Vilma