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Example sentences for "please him"

  • You have given me to the king as a person to please him; I do so.

  • He knew Lebel was a gallant and a gourmand*, and he was anxious to please him in all senses at once.

  • The little girl took after her mother: she was made to play the piano, though she had not a shadow of talent; she adored her father, and applied herself to her work to please him.

  • And, if it so please Him, He can cause the eternal to spring forth from dust and mud.

  • An adolescent youth is too like a young woman himself for a young woman to please him.

  • Is it unselfish of him to want you to throw away your good name just to please him?

  • He intended to buy more; Akers was anxious to please him; and a word from Eugene would have placed George almost anywhere in the chemical works.

  • Sir," said John, "be not dismayed thereof, for God will aid thee if it please him.

  • Sir knight," said the lady, "he shall take what heed thereof may please him but in the matter whereof I have spoken to thee, he hath neither courtesy nor reason.

  • Just to please him; just because else he would be miserable.

  • In vain does she try to please him; the one thing he wants her to do, to go away and leave him with Dolly, she of course doesn't.

  • She hadn't married Juchs for any reason, I gathered, except to please him.

  • At first, shyly, she had exerted herself to please him, and Armitage had responded to her tentative efforts; but presently she found herself enjoying the game.

  • And Armitage was so surprised at the charm she revealed as she exerted herself to please him, that he responded with an enthusiasm he had not contemplated.

  • It seemed as if I chattered incessantly with other people and suddenly remembered that this could not please him, and I wished to come close to him and embrace him.

  • I would have, however, desired much to do the will of God, and to please Him, but despaired altogether of ever attaining that desirable end.

  • I endeavored to be agreeable to my husband in anything, and to please him in everything he could require of me.

  • As he thought I was not so careful and studious to please him he would fly in a rage against me and express great thankfulness to his mother.

  • I hardly need say that I loved him--I did so from my heart, and learned with avidity to please him.

  • I was fortunate enough to please him with my off-hand translation; and as he closed the book, I told him that I had called to bid him farewell, as we started at daylight the next morning.

  • During the six months the Dominie pressed me hard, almost too hard, but I worked for love, and to please him I was most diligent.

  • His continual kindness to me made me strive all I could to please him by diligence and attention, and I soon became very expert at accounts, and, as he said, very useful.

  • One must be sacrificed, and I will not die yet to please him.

  • These are naturally exceeding slothful, but, upon the Husbands exerting his Authority, will live upon hard Fare, and do every thing to please him.

  • In ordinary cases, the Emperor looked with indifference on the endeavours made to please him; never was he known to say, I am pleased; and a person conjectured he had given him satisfaction, when he did not show any marks of discontent.

  • It was always in similar circumstances, that great news reached the Emperor: it seemed as if fortune, attentive to please him, sought to enhance her gifts by bestowing them apropos.

  • And yet, though everybody, even his mother, is as anxious to please him as if he were an emperor, he is the easiest person to please in the whole house.

  • He knew Lebel was a gallant and a gourmand, and he was anxious to please him in all senses at once.

  • Perhaps to please him, the rain fell more heavily as the light broadened and the coach passed through Kensington turnpike.

  • And then, as in surprise at the thing she had uttered, "I wonder when I wished to please him before?

  • I could wish Sir Robert were here, it would so please him to see his words fulfilled!


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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