Or that other pleasures be Sweeter even than gaiety?
Love with such tears has mingled ecstasy: Blest, who, when scorned, can change his passing heat; The pleasures of translated bonds are sweet.
He lived as a wealthy bachelor, not holding himself aloof from the pleasures of the capital, but not indulging in excesses.
They take their pleasures calmly, and hang upon their town walls by the hour, gazing out upon a view they love.
Thou wilt show me the path of life: In thy presence is fullness of joy, and at thy right hand are pleasures for evermore.
It commands him to hate all pleasures but those of religion, and to cherish a long face.
Sir John Coventry pleasantly asked, "Whether the King's pleasureslay among the male or the female actors?
The following toasts and airs then succeeded, the Band of the 3rd Buffs being in attendance and adding to the pleasures of the fete:-- Our Good Old King.
What led them to us was not our company, but the choice pleasures and the agreeable times our money afforded.
He and his sister were most ingenious in preparing surprises and pleasures for them, and it was there that they had learnt to know the charm of the old Jewish life.
And look at Sternberg, and Rosenfeld, and myself, and others who might pass their lives seeking pleasures of all kinds, instead of worrying over the sorrows of our nation.
Yet there are facts connected with the beginning of his government which prove that he was not void of those vague wishes of doing good, which, as they spring up, are “choked with cares and riches and pleasures of this world.
Never again does he place himself so sympathetically close to the daily tasks and pleasures of ordinary unimportant men and women.
The gravity is the gravity of a man of thought, not of a man of affairs; the pleasures are those of a scholar and a poet, not those of a trifler, a sportsman, or a sensualist.
Those who have never read a line of the Greek and Latin poets certainly miss many pleasures in reading Milton, but, if they have any ear for poetry at all, they do not miss either the mind or the art of Milton.
It is one of their greatest pleasures to imagine things to be other than they are.
It is fed and pampered by the delusion that our pleasures and pains are of chief importance.
Our free institutions are, no doubt, attended with their disadvantages; and there may be some peculiar pleasures belonging to such a state of society as exists at Chihuahua.
The winds and waves are chartered alike to convey him from danger, and to furnish him with the spectacles, varieties and pleasures of new ports.
Even in boyhood his mind seems to have been of a serious cast, more interested in study and speculation than in the pleasures customary in youth.
Her irony vented itself with inconceivable bitterness, sometimes on the purest pleasures of the mind, those that come from contemplation and study, sometimes on the noblest and most sacred sentiments.
I went quickly towards the hotel, imagining that the most delicious pleasures awaited me there.
Paul's studious face took on the brown tan of autumn, and even the schoolmaster, a man of years who liked the ways of civilization, saw only the pleasures of the forest and closed his eyes to its hardships.
He seemed to breathe a newer and keener air than that of the old land left behind, and his mind expanded with the thought of fresh pleasures to come.
Unless some care is taken he will see the others going without knowing where or why, he will sometimes lose pleasures because he did not hear the talk that was going on around him and no one thought to tell him.
He is more or less excluded from the plays and pleasures of childhood.
By Nancy Lord and her companions such pleasureswere unregarded.
I always like going anywhere with you; but I have plenty of occupations and pleasures at home.
There passed four or five days, and Tarrant, working hard as well as enjoying the pleasures of Society, made up his mind not to see her.
Wife of a Norfolk farmer, and mother of nine children, she was one of the old-world women whose thoughts found abundant occupation in the cares and pleasures of home.
Kind-hearted and sympathetic as she was, the prospective hollowness of Fred's pleasures did not in the least disturb her serenity.
She is loved by another, his bride she will be And all pleasures in life must seem hollow to me.
Through those doors many a beating and anxious heart enters to return disappointed, or half delirious with delight, through dreaming of the many pleasures which riches will procure.
The denunciation of luxury meant, in short, that the rich and powerful were accused of indulgence in pleasures which they had not earned by services, but by the rigid enforcement of class privileges.
There are, however, pleasures which undoubtedly suppose an indefinite capacity for using wealth.
A man is the best judge of his own pleasures and pains.
I must have at least thepleasures of sight and sound for my money.
I learnt from it that amorous pleasures are the effect and not the cause of gaiety.
In the midst of all these pleasures I was dull, because I had no girl to share my abode or my good table, and make it dear to me.
I thought with a sigh of thepleasures of such a sleep, and got out of bed gently for fear of rousing them.
He shewed me the fortress, and kept me for three days making me taste all the pleasures of the table, women, and gaming.
The pleasures of the table, never of much consequence to one naturally abstemious, had lost all value.
She passed across the opening of the by-street, still walking in the slack way of one who takes the pleasures of the streets.
He now experienced the holy pleasures of the chase.
It would not do for him to be cut off from social pleasures and duties, and then some day feel that he owed his starvation to her.
It was coming between him and the legitimate pleasuresof youth at last on its own in a way which must, he knew, make him a milksop in the eyes of Crum.
These people were incapable of being real, even the smartest, even the most respectable; they seemed to weigh their pleasures in the scales and to get the most that could be gotten for their money.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "pleasures" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
