He that reads to be amused, will be like him that eats to gratify his appetite--an epicure.
You willgratify the passion at the hazard of every thing.
I could not be so cruel as to break it in pieces, to gratify my curiosity; but I suppose it must have contained some treasure that was dear to them--probably their eggs.
The most important duties were now entrusted to him; and he soon became the travelling agent of the bank; which enabled him also to gratify his taste for the arts and sciences.
Only ladies, of fashions beyond men's, gratifycaprices like ours, and even these perhaps not voluntarily.
May, and perhaps to gratify his jealousy by denying his brother a superior education.
If you can conscientiously feel that you are acting for the best, and not to gratify your pride, then I can only say I hope you will be helped through the course you have chosen.
He readily consented to gratify my curiosity; and after he had thrown some of them to a prodigious height, I asked him to throw some of them horizontally.
She doesn't gratify me in the very least, monsieur.
In her aunt's lifetime she was rarely able to gratify her taste for reading, because Mère Fourcy considered that she already knew too much for a peasant.
I am the child of respectable tradespeople; they married me when very young to a man whom I did not love; but I felt bound to obey, in order to gratify my parents.
There was a very agreeable gentleman who had courted me before I was married; I didn't love him either, but I listened to him to gratify him.
Auguste, remembering that his companion had not dined, proposed that they should go in and regale themselves, and she assented--to gratify him.
The fine ideal of womanhood in a person never once physically described will gratify the highest tone of the period, and is an ennobling conception.
Napoleon smiled at his young friend, but he spoke with decision: "No; I won't come down to be stared at by a crowd who wish to gratify their curiosity by a sight of me.
Eating the bitter bread of poverty during childhood, he contrived, by means that throw fiction into the shade, to gratify a native taste for reading, drawing, and music.
Is your skin so tender still that the needles of the little critics disturb you, and to gratify their malice will you become a mule?
Princess Amelia was forced to give up her interviews upon the balcony, but she sought other means to gratify her passion.
Louise hated him because he had never been rich enough to gratify her extravagant taste and caprices.
I will gratify his desire," said Frederick, smiling, as he raised the curtain of the tent, and stood in the opening.
It was not time yet for any of the members of the house parties to make their appearance, and it was the general desire of his family that Mr. Easterfield should remain until some of the visitors arrived, but he could not gratify them.
Finally, the time came when he felt that he could gratify this longing.
