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Example sentences for "greater pleasure"

  • It is time for me to rest, and nothing could be a greater pleasure to me in my retirement, than to see my people ruled by so worthy a successor to my throne.

  • At such times, therefore, I think there could not be a greater Pleasure, than to walk in such a Winter-Garden as I have proposed.

  • Such afford a greater Pleasure, as extorted by Merit, and freed from all Suspicion of Favour or Flattery.

  • Upon my word, nothing would give me greater pleasure than to help a little; but I fear that, when the old man came out of it, and saw me over him, he would go off again.

  • You know that nothing would give me greater pleasure than to serve my brother.

  • I can only tell you, that you could not do me a greater pleasure than to come and by your presence restore to me the joy I have not felt for a long time, and that you will always be welcome when you come.

  • It is time for me to rest, and nothing could be a greater pleasure to me in my retirement than to see my people ruled by so worthy a successor to my throne.

  • Do it then, said the sultan, you cannot do me a greater pleasure; for I will have him to be my vizier, and he shall marry you.

  • No greater pleasure could be given his mother than to tell her, that her son was the leader of the jeunesse dorĂ©e.

  • I know of no greater pleasure than to do everything according to my own taste.

  • And if the fact that we "receive pleasure from the pleasure of another man"[126] is our reason for seeking his pleasure, we shall cease to seek it when a means of greater pleasure offers.

  • To the outsider--as to the community--it may seem irrational that a small increase in the pleasure of one unit should be allowed at the expense of a loss of greater pleasure on the part of other units.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    ding dong; feel that; greater amount; greater degree; greater depth; greater detail; greater distance; greater evil; greater extent; greater importance; greater number; greater part; greater proportion; greater quantity; greater speed; greater than; greater things; meridian altitude; military commission; mother came; representation from; shall find; shoot them; thou gavest; though unable; way that