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Example sentences for "please her"

  • And he shewed her how everything had been arranged to please her, at the cost of infinite trouble, and much expense.

  • And to be forced to be grateful to him at the same time, compelled to recognise the anxious pains he had taken to please her in nine-tenths of the things she wanted, was really odious: she could only chafe under it.

  • He is trying conscientiously to please her.

  • It was barely possible that it might be required to please her inclinations.

  • But Linda was not figuring that back of the projected improvements stood two men, each of whom had an extremely personal reason for greatly desiring to please her.

  • It was well that she had no wish to say more, for her voice grew tremulous before she had finished; and these few words more than repaid me for the endeavours I had made to please her during my stay with them.

  • Lord Vivianne had contrived to secure a place by Lady Studleigh's side, and he did his best to please her.

  • I told her that I hoped always to please her, and I intended then to do so.

  • Again she felt somewhat reassured when she saw that Lady Doris took some pains to please her lover.

  • But my mother was bent on quarrelling, and it was impossible for my wife to please her in any way.

  • And the husband of Bandhudatta, wishing to please her, had me carried on the back of one of his servants during the journey.

  • We see Elizabeth trying hard to share her favor equally between two nobles; but the Earl of Essex fails to please her because he lacked those exquisite manners which made Leicester so great a favorite with the fastidious queen.

  • Yet, after all, this was only a small affair compared with other undertakings with which Potemkin sought to please her.

  • Harriet dropped her abstruse studies, which she had taken up to please her husband, but which could only puzzle her small brain.

  • Amid the romantic scenery through which she passed Neipperg was always by her side, attentive, devoted, trying in everything to please her.

  • Edith began to wonder very much in the last few weeks whether she had really been able to please her aunt or not.

  • You would have a good home for a time, at all events; and if your Aunt Rachel should take to you, as we may hope she will if you earnestly try to please her, she may be a friend to you always.

  • My guardian much wished me to accept, and I did so to please her, as I had not been able to please her by going to Oxford.

  • A heart that's made of standard bullion Will love his wench although a scullion; Nay, though he takes a rag-mop squeezer, He ought to do his best to please her.

  • She became more and more pleasing to him, and he tried to please her by presenting to her a variety of pretty pictures and playthings, and by consulting her wishes in whatever she desired.

  • Many other similar remarks he added to arrest her attention and to please her.

  • He played at their usual games at toys with her, trying in every way to please her.

  • Why, yesterday my heart was tender because it thought to please her.

  • He was too preoccupied to please her taste.

  • I accompanied her sometimes, but not often enough to please her, and when we came to reside at The Laurels after my leaving the army, she frequently declared that she regretted having given up Mark Jeringham for me.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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