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Example sentences for "give satisfaction"

  • Proportional representation, too, is meeting with increasing sympathy in New Zealand where the system of second ballots, adopted in 1908, has failed to give satisfaction.

  • The Canadian Senate, which is a nominated body, fails to give satisfaction, and there is a strong demand for its reform.

  • It was my duty to give satisfaction on the score of battologies.

  • Blessed, therefore, be the Lord, who keeps the hearts and minds of all in the fear and reverence of his own word, and also instructs and informs your spirit with the gifts which may give satisfaction to the hearers.

  • Becket observed that, as this demand was totally unexpected, he had not come prepared to answer it; but he required a delay, and promised in that case to give satisfaction.

  • Becket observed, that, as this demand was totally unexpected, he had not come prepared to answer it; but he required a delay, and promised in that case to give satisfaction.

  • Mr. Craggs arose in great wrath, and said, that if the innuendo were directed against him, he was ready to give satisfaction to any man who questioned him, either in the House or out of it.

  • Several meetings were held for this purpose; but no measure could be devised likely to give satisfaction to the deluded people, or repair even a slight portion of the mischief that had been done.

  • Let you and this fellow put on plain clothes, and I will meet you both--and then I'll show you whether I am afraid to give satisfaction.

  • By consenting to fight with a blackguard, you as much disparage your cloth and compromise your own characters, as by refusing to give satisfaction to a gentleman.

  • By consenting to fight with a blackguard, you as much disparage your cloth and compromise your own characters, as by refusing to give satisfaction to a gentleman.

  • He observed, it had been common to give gentlemen the privilege to come into the House and take down the debates, which had been, last year, delivered time enough to give satisfaction to the members.

  • For it is not the mere calling him a financier, and giving him a large salary, that will enable him to perform his functions in such a manner as to give satisfaction.

  • He called upon gentlemen to exercise liberality and moderation in what they proposed, if they wished to give satisfaction and do justice to their constituents.

  • Three days afterwards, the villainous Major Sabi called on me to warn me to be on my guard, as, according to his account, a Venetian officer I had insulted and refused to give satisfaction to had vowed vengeance against me.

  • Now I think I may venture to offer my services, and if you will accept them I believe I shall be able to give satisfaction.

  • The man of honour ought always to be ready to use the sword to defend himself from insult, or to give satisfaction for an insult he has offered.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    give account; give every; give her; give him; give pain; give pleasure; give relief; give some; give testimony; give tribute; give unto; given amount; given away; given cause; given here; given line; given only; given place; given signal; given subject; given substance; given temperature; given thee; gives himself; gives them; stated times