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Example sentences for "take pleasure"

  • Almost single handed we undertook this field of investigation, and we take pleasure in reporting that our labors have been crowned with success.

  • I take pleasure in reporting my case to you, and I feel that the interest you have taken in my case has been a blessing unto me.

  • Gentlemen--I take pleasure in informing you that the treatment you gave me for the relief of an affection of the spine and nervous system, disease of the digestive organs, kidneys and liver, has been entirely successful.

  • I take pleasure, however, in stating here that by the laudable exertions of the officers of the Department and many of the citizens of the District but few papers were lost, and none that will materially affect the public interest.

  • I take pleasure in adding that the American exhibitors have received a gratifying number of diplomas and of medals.

  • Now all the Athenians and the strangers who come to sojourn there, take pleasure in spending their time in nothing else but in talking, or hearing of some novelty.

  • For, assuredly, if they early learn to be at home and to take pleasure in these productions, their whole after-life will be the better and the happier for it.

  • He felt indeed as if he had never been otherwise, never been light-hearted or happy, or free to take pleasure in his life; as if he had always been an impostor expecting to be found out.

  • It is a sign of bad reputation to take pleasure in hearing ill of our neighbors.

  • If you allow yourself to hate a man so as to take pleasure in his sufferings, you might justify the infliction of superfluous torture and the old methods of hanging, drawing, and quartering.

  • But a poet must be allowed to take pleasure in beauty, and we may grant to it a certain place that it deserves among higher qualities.

  • Ladies and gentlemen, I take pleasure in introducing to you the orator of the day, Mr. Thomas P.

  • The things in which we take pleasure, since they are the objects of pleasure, cause not only a material, but also a formal difference, if the formality of pleasurableness be different.

  • We take pleasure in contemplating her as an admirable production of our climate and of our fine arts,--as a scion shooting out of the past, as a prophecy of the future.

  • She begins too to take pleasure in the old familiar things of life.

  • Do you believe that I take pleasure in saying what I do?

  • And so they both put away such thoughts, and the mother strove to take pleasure in the many costly and beautiful things brought for her approval for the adornment of her daughter.

  • She was too restless and weak to take pleasure in anything, and longed so for a change of some kind, that she could very easily have persuaded herself that she was disappointed at being left.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    also given; elementary school; military power; take another; take care; take charge; take counsel; take courage; take delight; take food; take keer; take offence; take part; take passage; take place; take root; take stock; take thee; taken away from the; taken away from them; taken care; taken down; taken into; taken over; taken place; taken seriously