But Jerry growled about "beastly scrawls" and wasn't pleased with me until supper-time.
The bearded one is pleased with me and has not brought his poison bottles of late, but thank you for not wanting me to die just now.
We were especially pleasedwith the 'Oration on the Influence of Italian Works of Imagination on the same class of compositions in England.
She was an inveterate party goer, and nothing pleased her better than to have double engagements through the whole season; but the period of Lent found her utterly dévote--a most zealous attendant on all the ordinances of the Church.
He was much pleased with the addition of a wealthy, rising young man--and a proselyte besides--to his church.
Ere I proceed further; the reader will, perhaps, be pleased with a likeness of the man.
He was an ardent admirer of, and some of his friends were pleased to say, a close imitator of the oratory of Lord Erskine, with whom, till he died, he was on terms of the greatest intimacy.
Petilianus had proposed to himself to answer in my epistle, then going on to say anything else he pleased except what the matter in hand required.
If we too were pleased to return calumnies for calumnies, we too might possibly be able to give vent to eloquent slanders.
You will bepleased to hear that we are getting a new kind of grid.
It was an unpaid Board, and it could spend its money where it pleased and how it pleased, and there was nobody to say it nay.
The men saluted and went off, well pleased to have got rid of the trouble of marching their prisoner into the town.
It was evident to Gerald that the lord chief justice, who had taken a leading part in the prosecution and punishment of persons known to be favourable to the Jacobite cause, was not altogether pleased with Lord Godolphin's letter.
However, as His Majesty was pleased to say, it is evident that having two generals acting together, each with an independent command, is a mistake, and one that should not be again committed.
Mike was greatly pleased when Desmond communicated his promotion and appointment to him.
The king himself was pleased to tell me the details of that adventure, and to speak very highly of your courage and energy in carrying it out.
I mentioned you to His Majesty today, who was pleased to speak very highly of you.
It was because of the favourable report, which the duke was pleased to make of this service, that I received my rank as captain.
Of an evening he went out, accompanied by Mike Callaghan, and wandered about the less fashionable part of the town, which pleased him better than the more crowded and busy quarters.
Of course, I should be still better pleased if we were going to Ireland.
My brothers and I arranged to have this, and Moncrieff was well pleased to have us so near to him.
He seemed pleased his mother was so great a favourite.
He did not lead us to infer--for this boy is honest--that the terror partook of the supernatural, but he seemed pleased we did so infer.
There were at first grumblers in the clans, who lamented the advent of anything that they were pleased to call new-fangled.
Ah Jim listened attentively, and was evidently wellpleased with what his companion said.
Ferguson was evidently well pleased with this response.
He untied the string, and with a smile of pleased anticipation peered at the contents.
He is pleased with his bargain, and I don't think we need to trouble ourselves about that," answered Tom.
But he said nothing about a very true friend of the Daughter of the House, who lived in a small house in the garden, and who would have been very well pleased to break the head of any stray lover who should wander into his precincts.
She was well pleased that this was the one who had written that he was married.
This heroic action on the part of the Mistress of the House pleased John very much.
We have a foreign gentleman with us, John; he belongs to the same nation as your great hero Lafayette, and therefore I know you will be pleased to have him join our story-telling party.
And John Gayther was pleased to note a sharpness in her voice.
The Prince was very much pleased with the interest taken in his affairs by the hermit and his daughter, and he decided to follow their advice.
I had a good many plans for freeing my Aunt Amanda from the clutches of Mr. Bridges; but the best of them, and the one I finally determined upon, pleased me very much because it was romantic and adventurous.
He, with the family, was pleased when the Master of the House returned from a long cruise and proceeded immediately to make himself very much at home.
Sam looked at her; she was a good-looking young person, and he liked her smile, for it betokened a sense of humor, and that pleased him.
But I liked her very much, and I remember I was almost as well pleased when she was talking to me as when she was listening, and I am sure there are very few persons, men or women, of whom I can say this.
He immediately conceived a dislike to this one as he saw him walking by the side of the Daughter of the House and evidently pleased with her company.
The picture pleased him so much that he withdrew his senses from the consideration of everything else, and therefore it was he did not hear wheels on the road, and was awakened from his pleasant dreams by a voice outside the door.
Paltravi had remembered everything that had pleased his wife; he had thought of the little cakes, and had scoured the town early in the morning to get some which resembled them; he knew her favorite wine, and had given Rita her instructions.
Humbugging about with stunsails to the cat's-paws little pleased the men, especially at night.
To this day he is pleased with himself for having given the foreigners a lesson in the elements of morality, and he does not fear their knives one whit.
They had rather expected a quarrel, and this pacific solution pleased them.
I am as pleased as you are, and you are quite welcome to what I have done,' was my reply.
As these gentlemen had plenty of money, and as none of them had any connection with the man I had saved, I accepted their gifts, and felt pleased that my services had been acknowledged in the manner I have described.
I felt pleased with these acknowledgments of my services, and oftener than once after this I was sent to the same places, and got £1 each time, after I had rescued a human life.
Captain Knill was pleased that I had been so firm in refusing to take any money from the poor man, and it was enough for me that he was pleased.
Facts stranger than Fiction stud the pages of this volume, and shed light upon the various ways in which God is pleased to draw men to himself.
But it pleased the Lord to restore me, and since then I have felt a little better.
But what pleased me far better was, the gratitude of Mrs. H.
I'm sure Noda-sama will be pleased to know of your cooperation," I said soothingly.
You will be pleased to know I have been in contact with the Japanese trade organizations that have political action committees, or PACs as you call them, in Washington.
He saw his way clear to meeting his obligations without the necessity of hypothecating the California timber; and was the better pleased for it.
He waspleased at having arrived, and stretched his legs and filled his lungs twice with so evident an enjoyment that several people smiled.
He had it working in an hour and went to bed pleased with himself.
At ten or eleven, her eyes would open the rest of the way, slightly startled, slightly pleased to have survived the transition.
His overseer, jackeroos, and other employees were all allowed the freedom of home, and could invite whom they pleased to Five-Bob Downs.
I felt pleased with myself, and imagined, as I peeped in the looking-glass, that I was not half bad-looking after all.
I manfully endeavoured to squeeze my spirit into "that state of life into which it has pleased God to call me".
I was too much pleased to need a second invitation.
The sharp knitting of her brows and the nervous crumpling of the note in her hand showed that she was not pleased at the summons.
With the former she would sit for hours without speaking unless addressed; with the latter she was pleased and social, and grew to be interested in what interested him.
After reading to them a portion of the Holy Scriptures and telling them of Jesus, they were dismissed, greatly pleasedwith their first visit to a Sabbath-school.
The old men were pleased at this, for both held it extremely important.
The prelate, pleased with the praise, rapped his head with his knuckles.
He saw, unhappy victim, that the other man pleased her, for he was in fact an adroit and agreeable young fellow, and far from being stupid.
The priest whom they had pleased as "innocent boys" was amused with them and the little bear very greatly.
Should the Lord again bless you, well, so much the better; if not, you would leave in sufficiency and quiet the young widow, who might choose then the husband that pleased her.
And the girl has pleased my eye this long time, for she is a dainty morsel--dainty!
This proposal pleased all at the first moment, but when they examined it more carefully the execution seemed needless and difficult.
Stanislav greatly roused, but pleased also at these words, stood for a moment, as if undecided whether to make peace or fight longer.
Pan Gideon had the right to will what he owned to whatever person pleased him.
Pan Sarafin greeted her kindly, for her beauty and youth had pleased his heart greatly at Yedlinka.
It pleased him to regard himself as a genie, materializing out of emptiness to present the rose which she had chosen to declare unobtainable.
If it will add to your sense of security, Mr. Benton, I shall be pleased to drive you to your Legation and to have your government's representative accompany us.
Van talked glibly, pleased that the conversation had turned into channels so impersonal.
She had held up the slender fingers of the hand he had flattered, possibly a trace pleased with the effect of the Duke's latest gift, a huge emerald set about with small but remarkably pure brilliants.
He should think of her afterward as he saw her to-night, and it pleased her that in the irresponsibility of the maskers she should appear to him in the garb of vagabond liberty, since in fact freedom was impossible to her.
And there are no pre-requisites to justification, but what God, by his Spirit, is pleased to work in men's hearts.
No such thing, therefore, as you are pleasedto suggest, was the cause of their not being as yet circumcised.
The edification of the people in the camp was that which pleased Moses.
Pray be pleased to give your answer in writing, for Mr. K.
But I am not so inordinately pleased with the result as not to be able to forgive a patient reader who may find it somewhat disappointing.
London and the court there was so pleased with young Hugh that they bestowed on him and his descendants forever the privilege of assisting at the coronation of English kings.
Walter, she felt, was paying her rather special attention these days and because she did like him, she hardly knew whether to be pleased or angry.
Why, I'm almost as pleased as Nan," she tormented her friend further, though she was secretly pleasedthat Nan liked her brother so much.
Robert received back the sum named, and returned home, much pleased with his interview.
You don't look very much pleased at the prospect of fish six times a week," said Robert, laughing again.
I was not prepossessed in his favor, and was not very well pleased to find him my second in command.
He was one of the first to realize that the best possible advertisement is a pleased customer, and he tried honestly to keep his museum supplied with every novelty.
I retired, feeling much pleased with myself, as I knew that in future I should have a devoted friend in my Sergeant-major, whose power was far greater than that of any of the officers of our squadron.
He even went so far as to promise me, or at least to make me understand, that if I pleased him in the matter, he would see that I was released from the regiment after the following examination.
