Spoiled

Examples

• It quite spoiled my pleasure for that night because it was so very embarrassing and so very ridiculous. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I'm afraid Laurie will be quite spoiled among them. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Jo wouldn't love him, but he might make her respect and admire him by doing something which should prove that a girl's 'No' had not spoiled his life. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He's my child, and I won't have his temper spoiled by indulgence. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I assure you he is very detestable; the Admiral's lessons have quite spoiled him. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I was very sorry to learn that it was whiskey that spoiled such a career. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It is all Harry's spoiled way. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• This harshness to one like me, who had been hitherto so spoiled and indulged, affected me with the deepest melancholy. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• If she had seen the brown eyes then, she would have stopped short, but she never looked up, and the lesson was not spoiled for her. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She said when you spoiled the others that she shouldn't get you any more this winter. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She felt confusedly unhappy, and the image of Will which had been so clear to her before was mysteriously spoiled. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Then he's rich and generous and good, and loves us all, and I say it's a pity my plan is spoiled. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I'm spoiled! Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• They were clumsy in cutting the lines, and spoiled block after block. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• I suppose it is partly our fault that they are selfish, and act like spoiled children; but I've talked to St. Clare till I am tired. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Once he spoiled a new dove-coloured pelisse of hers. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• This was very hard upon one, who, like myself, had been spoiled and indulged by a man, who was ever a slave to my slightest caprices! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• He had felt no bond beforehand to this woman who had spoiled the ideal treasure of his life, and he held himself blameless. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Now it's spoiled. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Domestics are in all countries a spoiled and unruly set. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I nearly spoiled her by indulgence. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• She had lived a miserable life, Mr. Betteredge--vile people had ill-treated her and led her wrong--and it hadn't spoiled her sweet temper. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• A spoiled, whimsical boy he was in those days. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• So this spoiled child of a King went and lay down on the bed with his face to the wall, and grieved sorely. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Of course you did, and spoiled your story by beginning at the wrong end. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Amy was in a fair way to be spoiled, for everyone petted her, and her small vanities and selfishnesses were growing nicely. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• However, Meyler spoiled my preferment with Ebrington by hurting his lordship's vanity and thus damping all his ardour. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Emma is spoiled by being the cleverest of her family. Jane Austen. Emma.
• She had spoiled the remembrance of Frederick's visit to herself by her own cowardice. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Again and again he would throw away a spoiled block and show them how the letters should be cut properly. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.

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