Satisfying

Examples

• He was so firm, and shapely, with such satisfying, inconceivable shapeliness, strange, yet unutterably clear. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The episode of Nettie Crane's timely rescue from disease had been one of the most satisfying incidents of her connection with Gerty's charitable work. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It was not a very satisfying life intellectually. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• To these things men's minds clung, and they clung to them because in all the world there appeared nothing else so satisfying to cling to. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The course of action is not intrinsically satisfying; it is a mere means for avoiding some penalty, or for gaining some reward at its conclusion. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• Satisfying herself that I had come off unscathed she smiled quietly, and, taking my hand, started toward the door of the chamber. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• But in truth, neither the lonely meditations of the hermit, nor the tumultuous raptures of the reveller, are capable of satisfying man's heart. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I would have more hope of satisfying the expectation of the public if I could have allowed myself more time. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• For the present she did not want to touch him, to know the further, satisfying substance of his living body. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She turned again towards the bed, and satisfying herself that all was quiet there, spoke in a low, calm, cheerful voice. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
• There was a new world, a new order, strict, terrible, inhuman, but satisfying in its very destructiveness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Ah, if that which was unknown and suppressed in her were once let loose, what an orgiastic and satisfying event it would be. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was so fresh and delicate and so satisfying. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• After satisfying himself upon this head, the Jew stepped gently to the door: which he fastened. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• Sir Percival Glyde shall not be long in this house without satisfying Mr. Gilmore, and satisfying me. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• He replied with his accustomary mildness to all her inquiries, but without satisfying her in any. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Well, a cheetah is just a big cat, and yet a saucer of milk does not go very far in satisfying its wants, I daresay. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
• The nomadic life of the next few years did not lessen his devotion to study; but it stood seriously in the way of satisfying the ever-present craving for a laboratory. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The important question had arisen, therefore, of satisfying the fire underwriters as to the safety of the system. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.

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