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Example sentences for "satisfy the"

  • How define with a precision to satisfy the logic of philosophy what was to live again?

  • My replies seemed to satisfy the lawyer so far, but "how could I account for the casket and the knife being found in my room?

  • He said it was a position of eminence that ought to satisfy the ambition of anyone, but for which few men were fitted.

  • All this rapid development did not satisfy the desire of Colonel Scott and Mr. Walters.

  • But these reasons were not sufficient to satisfy the king of Persia.

  • And that this explication of the matter is just, appears hence, that men have invented a symbolical delivery, to satisfy the fancy, where the real one is impracticable.

  • This suffices to satisfy the imagination, and proves there is no repugnance in such a motion.

  • I told him that we had procured these from a gentlewoman to satisfy the prince, and as they could not be made better, it was uncivil to be angry with merchants who had done their best to shew their good will.

  • In Cappadocia and Egypt the farmer as well as the king was bankrupt; the former was unable to satisfy the tax-collector, the latter was unable to satisfy his Roman creditor.

  • Is it the Almighty, to satisfy the revenge of an insignificant woman, or the jealousy of lovers of either sex?

  • A society enjoys all the happiness of which it is capable when the greater number of its members is fed, clothed, and lodged; when most men can, without excessive labor, satisfy the cravings of nature.

  • They are evidently intended to satisfy the authorities, and to be simply over looked by the intelligent reader.

  • Footnote: This concession probably took the form it did, partly to satisfy the censor, or the Academy of Dijon, jealous for Genesis.

  • In other cases, the instigation may not come from the parents or guardians, or not directly from these, but from professional procuresses, who have undertaken to satisfy the desires of sexual perverts.

  • From a feeling of shame, and for fear of arousing disgust in others, many young girls refrain, when in the company of other persons, from retiring to satisfy the calls of nature.

  • Now, this tends to no other purpose but to satisfy the lusts of man’s pride, and so it increases that which was man’s first malady, and keeps them from the true physician.

  • This is the disease which hath consumed his strength, and concluded man under a twofold impossibility, an impossibility to satisfy the curse, and an impossibility to obey the command.

  • There is here the highest truth and certainty to satisfy the mind: It “is a faithful saying.

  • He has truth in him to satisfy the mind, and has life and goodness in him to satiate the heart, therefore if thou wouldest find Jesus Christ, bring thy whole soul to seek him, as Paul expresseth it.

  • Human blood and ruthless cruelty alone seemed to satisfy the Dervishes.

  • This evasive answer did not however satisfy the Mahdi, who obliged Tobji to sign a letter declaring that Mohammed Ahmed was the true Mahdi, and this letter was then despatched to the Mudir of Dongola.

  • The fancies of other men roused my scepticism; my own, founded always on experience, and never going beyond the province of the possible, seemed to me to possess a reality sufficient to satisfy the conditions of my deluded judgment.

  • This seemed to satisfy the damsel, and she intrusted him with the letter in its unclosed state, only enjoining him to show it to nobody, and give it into the hands of George Chrighton.

  • They have laid by the heels enough victims to satisfy the wrath of the bishop and the cardinal.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    being given; being washed; mental effort; name shall; national highway; natural language; pressed down; real live; revolutionary action; right smart; said stiffly; satisfy himself; satisfy myself; satisfy the; satisfy their; satisfy them; see you; small girl; stewed tomatoes; think you; this village; three places; trust that; upon another; walked forward; would accept