Some truth there was, but dashed and bruised with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise.
Entering the lower veranda, we pace the quadrangle, viewing innumerable cuttings and carvings upon the posts: they are initials and full names, cut to please the vanity of those anxious to leave the Marston family a memento.
Perhaps it will not be acceptable to the north as a thinking people, nor will it please the generosity of southern ladies.
The Duke of Guise ought to have represented a great prince, that had inserved to some most detestable villany, to please the rage, or lust, of a tyrant.
Our business was to please the throng, And court their wild applause; Aseb.
It was for their sake and that of the Royalists that the First Consul recalled them, but it was to please the Jacobins, whom he was endeavouring to conciliate, that their return was subject to restrictions.
She was very pretty, and her charms were enhanced by the rarity of seeing a woman in Egypt who was calculated to please the eye of a European.
His letter was admirably calculated to please the Court of Rome, which he wished should consider him in the light of another elder son of the Church.
Do not disquiet yourself any more with what it can do: keep yourself quiet; continue to please the 'master,' and you will triumph over the multitude as easily as you have conquered the resistance of mesdames.
Voltaire, sire," I replied, with so much presence of mind as to please theduc de Richelieu.
I told him that my sole intentions were to confine myself to the circle of my duties; that I had none but to please the king, and no intention of mixing myself up with state affairs.
Immediately upon entering on his office he proposed enactments more suitable to the most turbulent tribune than a consul, for in order to please the populace he introduced measures for certain allotments and divisions of land.
For this reason the position of a statesman in a democracy must always be full of peril; for if he tries merely to please the people he will share their ruin, while if he thwarts them he will be destroyed by them.
Please the Pigs" is a phrase too vulgarly common not to be well known to your readers.
In the mean time the lady's son grew up; he was very handsome, and not wanting ability, found means to please the sultan my father, who conceived a great friendship for him.
The good man, to please the prince, consented; so they shared it between them, and each had twenty-five urns.
His preceptor, Fleury, Bishop of Frejus, who had just refused the Archbishopric of Rheims, seeing that he must make up his mind to please the Regent or estrange him, supported what had just been said.
Everybody was anxious toplease the favorite; her incessantly renewed caprices contributed to develop certain branches of the trade in luxuries.
She knew how the Hotel Spaander had been started to please the artists, and how it had grown year by year; and all the things that people told her she had written in a note-book which she wears dangling from a chatelaine.
To please the King, his governess took him once to Auvez, and twice to the Pyrenees, but neither the waters nor the Auvez quack doctors could effect a cure.
The night of our concert and garden fete she sang to please the Abbess, but there were tears in her voice.
The gentleman made no remark, but, without even drawing his sword, went into the den and gave himself up silently to death to please the lady.
A gentleman from Normandy, named Hugonin de Grensay, thought he could create a sensation by having a dance of wild men toplease the ladies.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "please the" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
