Enjoyments

Examples

• There is no doubt that every age has its portion of enjoyments as well as cares, rejoined Fanny, but, for myself, I am not I confess sanguine. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• My father directed our studies, and my mother partook of our enjoyments. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• He was for ever busy; and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and dejected mien. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• This greater abundance, as it must necessarily have increased their enjoyments, so it must likewise have augmented their industry. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The little dinners, the laughing and chatting, the music afterwards, delighted all who participated in these enjoyments. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It gives a value to their superfluities, by exchanging them for something else, which may satisfy a part of their wants and increase their enjoyments. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• He was fond of the country and of books; and from these tastes had arisen his principal enjoyments. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Her child must have his enjoyments and ambition in the world. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• The humanities and amenities of life had no attraction for him--its peaceful enjoyments no charm. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Ordinarily he was like other normal lads of his age--full of boyish, hearty enjoyments--but withal possessed of an unquenchable spirit of inquiry and an insatiable desire for knowledge. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• It made her uncomfortable for a time, but yet there were enjoyments in the day and in the view which would be felt. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

Edited by Ellis