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Example sentences for "more pleasing"

  • For real truth, though it disgust never so much, must be told as it is, without alteration; but that which is feigned in a discourse can easily yield and shift its garb from the distasteful to that which is more pleasing.

  • Thus their taste is pleased most with strong sapors, their smelling with brisk odors; for strong and unalloyed qualities make a more pleasing impression on the sense.

  • The good work can be a better work than the old one, that is, a work which, if not more difficult, is more pleasing to God and more spiritually advantageous to the vower.

  • The other was the charm of friendship which tempered and calmed my wrath by the ascendancy of a more pleasing sentiment.

  • Could you but break yourself of this, your friendship would be more pleasing to me, and I should be less to be pitied.

  • I never enjoyed a more pleasing surprise.

  • Thus, although works performed with consolation are more pleasing to us; yet if they be done in the state of aridity, they have a sweeter odour, higher value before God.

  • Roses smell sweeter in the morning before mid-day; but carnations and pinks shed a more pleasing scent in the evening.

  • Whoever were to see them thus gathered again in five or six years, would behold a more pleasing sight, to which this would serve as a very powerful contrast.

  • I am sure that the rapidity of their growth would be more pleasing to behold, than the ruins of old towers, useless aqueducts, or impending battlements.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    more accurately; more advanced; more advantageous; more briefly; more cards; more complicated; more exact; more glorious; more good; more grievous; more high; more interested; more money; more natural; more necessary; more often; more practical; more remarkable; more severe; more trouble; more vigorous; more will; more work; perfect circle; religious equality; whose style