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Example sentences for "great satisfaction"

  • Stone to assist Mr. Galusha Parsons, and they filed a petition in the name of Jonathan W.

  • Upon the impeachment trial Sherman under oath denied that he had employed counsel to commence this suit, and Mr. Cattell testified that he had nothing to do with the employment of any counsel to bring the suit.

  • It's a great satisfaction sometimes to see a duel, and it's only right and proper that as many as possible should be gratified with the sport.

  • It will give me great satisfaction to forward two pieces that I owe to our worthy chief, and will you tell him that I anticipate obtaining a third piece after I am exchanged?

  • It was altogether a fascinating thing, and she would have sat wafting it to and fro all the afternoon, to Fun's great satisfaction, if Dr.

  • Now she looks like other girls, and as I like to see her," Mrs. Clara was saying, with an air of great satisfaction.

  • The conversation then dwelt on the commonplace, to the goldsmith's great satisfaction, for he did not like political disturbances or over-boldness of thought.

  • To Catherine's great satisfaction, the King of Navarre and the Prince de Conde both made their appearance.

  • David's great satisfaction, and he went off rubbing his hands.

  • Yes, you are here now," repeated Phronsie, folding her hands in great satisfaction, and surveying the company from her high perch.

  • Then it must be Joel," said the old lady, and a smile of great satisfaction began to run over her strongly marked face.

  • I am so very glad," said Phronsie, smoothing her brown gown in great satisfaction; "for then Joel will know that I sent it all by myself.

  • And my family is just as important," said Mrs. Vanderburgh, and she smiled in great satisfaction.

  • Phronsie gave a glad little cry, and wriggled in great satisfaction in her arms.

  • Indeed I have, though," said Ellen, who was gently jumping up and down on the green moss to try its softness, with a face of great satisfaction.

  • Parry lifted his head, and opened and shut his eyes, with an expression of great satisfaction, very different from that he had bestowed on Ellen.

  • So back by coach, and took up my wife, and away home, and there in my chamber all the evening among my papers and my accounts of Tangier to my great satisfaction, and so to supper and to bed.

  • Anson concluded his letter with the following words: 'It would give me great satisfaction to have your views upon the present crisis, for I would trust to them more than to my experience.

  • Montgomery had been very anxious about these two strongholds, and it was a great satisfaction to him to know that they were at length safely guarded by British bayonets.

  • The recital of this truth made my man give the greatest attention, and he expressed a great satisfaction by his gestures, that God had sent the devil into a deep hole.

  • We are now preparing for our journey to Bedfordshire; and there, to my great satisfaction, I am to be favoured with the care of Miss Goodwin.

  • When his master told him that they were on the point of starting for the army, to fight for liberty, he shrewdly suggested that it would be a great satisfaction to know that he was indeed going to fight for his liberty.

  • It would be a great satisfaction to be able to be present at the fortieth anniversary of the Woman's Suffrage Association.

  • It would, nevertheless, give me great satisfaction to know, as thy kindly expressed editorial comments seem to intimate, that I have somewhat overestimated the tendencies of things in our Society.

  • But Mr Crathie was cordial, and, to Malcolm's great satisfaction, much recovered.

  • It would be a great satisfaction to my old Adam to let him try her," said Malcolm.

  • When he came out, he informed Adam Stallman that he had applied for him as his mate, and, to my great satisfaction, told me that I was also to accompany him.

  • It was a great satisfaction to me to be able to talk, for I fancied that I should have had to hold my tongue from the moment I set foot on shore.

  • To my great satisfaction, he told me that Major Norman was really a slave in the Sheikh's house, and that his daughter was in the harem.

  • They had a great deal to talk about as they went and came, and when they had gone I found, to my great satisfaction, that they had begun a nest.

  • In any case, however they were to start out in the world, it was a great satisfaction to have rescued them from their prison tower.

  • To my great satisfaction, the photographer was able to induce the bird to have a sitting while she brooded her eggs.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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