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Example sentences for "enjoyment"

Lexicographically close words:
enjoyed; enjoyer; enjoyers; enjoyeth; enjoying; enjoyments; enjoyn; enjoyned; enjoys; enke
  1. The enjoyment is deemed to have been uninterrupted, whether it has been continued from ancestor to heir, and from seller to buyer; or whether the use has been enjoyed during the entire period by one person.

  2. We have spoken of the rights of men, and of laws as designed to secure to men the free enjoyment of their rights.

  3. The right of property is the right to acquire property, and to be free in the use and enjoyment of it.

  4. The general rule is, that when the use of a thing is granted, every thing is granted which is necessary to the enjoyment of its use.

  5. Where there is an express agreement to pay rent, the tenant can not avoid payment even if the premises are destroyed by fire or flood, or if he is in any other manner deprived of their enjoyment and use, even without any default on his part.

  6. To protect men in the enjoyment of this right, is one of the principal objects of constitutions and laws.

  7. Hence we see the necessity of some established rules for securing to every member of society the free enjoyment of what justly belongs to him, and for regulating his conduct toward his fellow-members.

  8. By the grant of an easement, the grantee acquires no other right than what is necessary to the fair enjoyment of the privilege.

  9. The free enjoyment of rights secured by the civil or municipal laws, is called civil liberty.

  10. Desirous of securing to every citizen the full enjoyment of religious liberty, the introduction of tests was prohibited by the constitution.

  11. What we have acquired by honest labor, or other lawful means, is rightfully our own; and we are justly entitled to the free use and enjoyment of it.

  12. Such laws are designed for the benefit of honest and unfortunate debtors, who, by having the enjoyment of their future earnings secured to them, are encouraged to engage anew in industrial pursuits.

  13. On the other hand, learning is not only a means of enjoyment in itself, but of improving the social condition of a people.

  14. You seem to ignore the fact," she said, "that our cousin is likely to live in the exclusive enjoyment of his home for many years to come.

  15. Even when there came tidings of my brother's death at sea, and I felt that at last my title to the estate was secure, I had little enjoyment in its possession.

  16. So depraved became his appetites that he found his chief enjoyment in the death agonies of his victims, over whose sufferings he gloated as he skilfully mangled them and protracted their torture.

  17. Everywhere there was self-seeking and desire for the enjoyment of an idle and luxurious life.

  18. But the fourth said, 'She is mine by right of invention, because I breathed into her a soul that could be loved, nor was there any enjoyment in her but for me.

  19. What then are the situations, from the representation of which, though accurate, no poetical enjoyment can be derived?

  20. But one part of the enjoyment which we possess is wanting to him, a pure and lofty pleasure which is surely his due, minister that he is in that vast temple which only the sky is vast enough to embrace.

  21. But the use of this negative criticism is not in itself, it is entirely in its enabling us to have a clearer sense and a deeper enjoyment of what is truly excellent.

  22. Afoot and horseback the town and the visitors in it came after them, shooting and shouting, getting far more enjoyment out of it than they would have got out of a hanging, as even the most contrary among them admitted.

  23. Peden's only object in keeping them back from a closer enjoyment of the battle was entirely commercial, humanity and delicacy being no part of his business plan.

  24. Weigh the present enjoyment of your pleasures against the necessary consequences of them, and I will leave you to your own determination.

  25. A country life abounds in both these kinds of labor, and for that reason gives a man a greater stock of health, and consequently a more perfect enjoyment of himself, than any other way of life.

  26. There is indeed no blessing of life that is any way comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend.

  27. My suggestion then becomes part of a larger plea, the plea for more direct cultivation of enjoyment in education.

  28. Much of the best literature is the work of unlettered men, as they never tire of telling us, but it is for the enjoyment and understanding of books and of the world that continuity with the past should be maintained.

  29. In each set boys are matched with others whose skill approximates to their own; they are not overpowered by the strength of older boys and can get the proper enjoyment from the display of such skill as they possess.

  30. There is no source of enjoyment which lasts so keen all through life or which fits one better for other enjoyments, such as those of art and of travel.

  31. There methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march of mind.

  32. Shortly after the disperse was sounded, to the annoyance of every one in camp, the enjoyment of their coffee was spoilt by the assembly being sounded; the tents were lowered, the cavalry saddling up and riding some 200 yards from camp.

  33. And these being thus restored to their vigour of operation, a simple and moderate portion of food is rendered the most nutritious, and the body is consequently established in the enjoyment of health and happiness.

  34. By removing such a pernicious partiality, the health, if not the lives of thousands, may be saved, to the great enjoyment of themselves and their relatives.

  35. Their pages have always been open to young artists of ability, and while they have helped forward struggling genius they have opened up new sources of enjoyment to the general public.

  36. Unlike Chatterton and Ireland, he never brought his imposture before the world, and if he intended it merely for an antiquarian jeu-d'esprit he had the enjoyment of the joke entirely to himself.

  37. So she took the lute and playing thereon after a different fashion from the former one, sang the following verses: Oft as my yearning waxeth, my heart consoleth me With hopes of thine enjoyment in all security.

  38. May God make plain the treading of thy feet and vouchsafe thee enjoyment of that which He hath bestowed on thee and make Paradise thy harbourage and the fire that of thine enemies!

  39. It came to him with a shock, for he had been living only in the enjoyment of the present.

  40. How he obtained accouterments and that magnificent mount in so short a time is a mystery only known to the smiling factotums who bowed and scraped their enjoyment of one of the most princely douceurs that had ever been lavished upon them.

  41. Wolves breed wolves, with full powers of the highest enjoyment of Life and Love.

  42. It is best so, for I would not have you hampered by a single regret in your enjoyment of the happiness that the future holds for you.

  43. The first goal of a ruler is to take care that each individual is secured in the quiet enjoyment of his own property.

  44. His restoration to the throne brought in a time of enjoyment of life in reaction to the Puritanism of before.

  45. Then she would pass before her in mental review all her methods of enjoyment before breaking the glass, and determined that when she felt the most perfect of all joys she would bite the bottle.

  46. Oh, there is no enjoyment to equal a good stool; and now I am no longer astonished at sempiternal droppings of a fly," replied the surgeon.

  47. Somerset was still unconscious of his peril, and the news that some meaner agents in the crime were arrested found him still with the king and in the seeming enjoyment of his wonted favour.

  48. In 1580 he followed Lord Grey as his secretary into Ireland, and remained there on the Deputy's recall in the enjoyment of an office and a grant of land from the forfeited estates of the Earl of Desmond.

  49. Yet his worst sin was probably nothing more than an enjoyment of the natural buoyancy of youth, and a want of the deeper earnestness which comes with riper years.

  50. Milton's enjoyment of the gaiety of life stands in bright contrast with the gloom and sternness which strife and persecution fostered in Puritanism at a later time.

  51. He seemed to converse, to think, to live, not with any enjoyment of the present, but with a view to some future object, about which he was constantly anxious.

  52. The enjoyment of high credit must surely give more pleasurable feelings than the mere possession of wealth.

  53. Caroline liked particularly to stay with Mrs. Hungerford at this time, when there was not any company at the castle, no one but Mrs. Hungerford and her daughter, so that she had the full and quiet enjoyment of their society.

  54. Colonel Hungerford, lost in the enjoyment of her self-timidity and retiring grace, quite forgot to say how much he thought the picture worthy of his acceptance.

  55. At length your mere presence becomes a sensation, Your cup of enjoyment is filled to its brim With the pleasure Horatian of digitmonstration, As the whisper runs round of "That's he!

  56. They passed most of every day in the enjoyment of his conversation.

  57. It would be silly if a king's son or a despot were to limit himself to the same measure of enjoyment with which a poor citizen must be content; and worse than silly if he did not enrich his friends in preference to his enemies.

  58. No present enjoyment must be admitted, which would impair it; no present pain must be shunned, which is essential to uphold it.

  59. Antoninus Pius to Sokrates: both were capable of enjoyment as well as of abstinence, without ever losing their self-command.

  60. It is you who drive me to mention them, by laying down the principle, that men who enjoy, be the enjoyment of what sort it may, are happy; and by not distinguishing what pleasures are good and what are evil.

  61. Then, too, he is not so keen to get on that he does not find the artist's enjoyment and pride in the practice of his craft.

  62. The social diversions of the Teutons, and their affirmance of the "joy of living," have helped to clear from our eyes the Puritan jaundice that made all physical and social enjoyment look sinful.

  63. For if they had settled down a bit with the coming of their children, their love had grown rich in sympathies and silent understandings, in humorous enjoyment of their funny little daughters' chattering like magpies in the genial old house.

  64. But as Roger watched them, with their love and their solemnity, their guilt and their perplexity, with quiet enjoyment he would wait to see the change he knew would come.

  65. With that he turned on his heel, swaggering away in the full enjoyment of his triumph.

  66. In the end they enjoyed it as much as they expected, and though we "went out" several times subsequently, until it became an old story, the enjoyment never waned.


  67. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "enjoyment" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.