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Example sentences for "pleased with"

  • Being therefore confined to less fatiguing employments, I busied myself about the dove --house, and was so pleased with it that I sometimes passed several hours there without feeling a moment's weariness.

  • His knowledge was so contracted, and his inclinations so mean, that it was useless to reason, and almost impossible to be pleased with him.

  • He conversed with Law some time, and was so pleased with him, that he spoke of him to Desmarets as a man from whom information was to be drawn.

  • Duc d'Orleans grew tired, and was not over-pleased with him.

  • He replied, "Don't be at all afraid; I shall confirm every point, and I am sure they will be pleased with what I have to say.

  • And she was not the worst pleased with it that the cunning gentleman did interweave it with anecdotes of the queen's majesty; which, albeit he related them with gravity, did carry somewhat of ridicule in them.

  • His majesty mounted immediately, and was so pleased with them, that he testified his satisfaction by large presents.

  • We hope when you look upon it, you will perceive our good intention and be pleased with it.

  • I have some reason to believe he will not refuse, but will be pleased with an alliance with one of the greatest potentates of the earth.

  • And now the king will be pleased with me.

  • The king, therefore, has reason to be pleased with me.

  • He is really in high favor, and I would do well to secure his friendship," thought Pollnitz; "the king will also be pleased with me if I am kind to him.

  • The aged monarch of Persia, pleased with a demand which offered to his amiable niece so advantageous an establishment, instantly laid the proposal before her.

  • The Caliph was so pleased with him, that he took him into his palace, and gave him an important post in his Court.

  • I thank him with a kiss, and tell him that I am pleased with everything.

  • He is always asking me if I am pleased with my furniture, my clothes, my servants, and my garden, and if I desire anything altered.

  • You shall be pleased with me as I with you, and take care to have as good a supper to-morrow evening, as I hope the lady will be well enough to do justice to the products of your daughter's culinary skill.

  • Jesus, pleased with Nathanael's willing faith, told him that he should see greater proofs of His being indeed the Son of God, the promised Messiah.

  • Consider of what consequence it is that my master should be pleased with you.

  • The more you apprehend he is pleased with you, be ye the more displeased with yourselves, because it is not yourselves he is pleased with, but his own well-beloved Son.

  • But to think how absolutely God is well-pleased with himself, and how all imaginable perfections can add nothing to his eternal self-complacency and delight in his own being, it would certainly ravish a soul to delight in God also.

  • Now this is only the service that he is pleased with, which comes from love, because he sees his own image in it; for love in us is nothing else but the impression and stamp that God’s love to us makes on the heart.

  • True worship must have truth for the substance, and spirit for the manner of it; else it is not such a worship as the Father seeks and will be pleased with.

  • Now, that ye may know what you are, and what little reason you have to be pleased with yourselves, and absolve yourselves as ye do, I shall unbowel that iniquity unto you.

  • Now see, if a man wish not only to do good works, but even miracles, which God may praise and be pleased with, what need has he to look elsewhere?

  • Jagannath, pleased with the sankirtan, stopped his car.

  • Through love of Krishna have I served you, as he is pleased with attention to Brahmans.

  • The king grieved at the Master's speech, but Sarvabhauma told him not to lose heart, "The Master is pleased with you; He is only instructing His followers by means of you.

  • Jagannath went along in his car, pleased with what he saw on both sides.

  • The time was now coming, in which affluence and splendour could no longer make me pleased with myself.

  • She has the pleasure of being supposed to be pleased with a refined amusement, and of hoping to be numbered among the votaresses of harmony.

  • Here he began to be a little freer with me than he had promised; and I by little and little yielded to everything, so that, in a word, he did what he pleased with me; I need say no more.

  • He was so pleased with it, that he would call his lady and his two daughters to hear it, and it made mirth enough among them, you may be sure.

  • Linda is getting eaten up with conceit; she will be an intolerable woman by and by, so self-opinionated, and so pleased with herself.

  • You certainly have, Molly; and I am pleased with you.

  • You have improved, and I am pleased with you.

  • But, on the whole, my dear, I am pleased with you.

  • Will the Lord be pleased with this, that and the other fantastical action, or great sacrifice of mine?

  • Will the Lord be pleased with thousands of rams?


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dear ones; five acts; five dollars; good fruit; human beings; inclined planes; large group; larger force; larger quantities; nearly done; pleased smile; pleased with; pretty close; real self; since first; these the; things around; though the; total vote; turned away; unusual number; waiting for; will conclude