I would not like to be the man that spoke a word displeasing to ye with those eyes of yours. From Wordnik.com. [Kirsteen: The Story of a Scotch Family Seventy Years Ago] Reference
The nasal noise in his enunciation was displeasing. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Grammar and Composition] Reference
I correct this inclination, for fear of displeasing. From Wordnik.com. [The Women of the French Salons] Reference
Unpalatable: displeasing or unpleasant to the taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Stay Apparatus] Reference
As Marsa grew up, Moscow became displeasing to the Prince. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The cedar oils are displeasing to termites and other pests. From Wordnik.com. [Pamper your pet's paws outdoors] Reference
It is a silly and displeasing thing, when it becomes a habit. From Wordnik.com. [The Laws of Etiquette] Reference
The education of the slaves was very displeasing to the planter. From Wordnik.com. [The Journal of Negro History, Volume 7, 1922] Reference
Nay, are not the very thoughts of it altogether displeasing to thee?. From Wordnik.com. [The Riches of Bunyan] Reference
Judging by his frequent purrs and sighs, the result was not displeasing. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Jim] Reference
The physician's order, far from displeasing Zilah, was like music in his ears. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
In order to avoid despising or displeasing our parents, what should we not do?. From Wordnik.com. [An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism] Reference
What is pleasing to some men's taste is and ever will be displeasing to others. From Wordnik.com. [Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness.] Reference
Do you know that I am jealous -- I, with my piano and my displeasing profession?. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
I told you I loved you; you allowed me to think that I was not displeasing to you. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
If they are displeasing to us, it is only from the indifference we feel for those who write them. From Wordnik.com. [Classic French Course in English] Reference
Since she was very far from being a model young person, Hilary's manifest anger was not displeasing. From Wordnik.com. [Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905] Reference
And the word was displeasing in the eyes of Samuel, that they should say: Give us a king to judge us. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 09: 1 Kings The Challoner Revision] Reference
Louise did not resist, but still maintained an air of coquetry that was displeasing to the ardent young soldier. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
There is nothing else but adaptations of means to ends in nature, however displeasing some of them may be to us. From Wordnik.com. [Theism or Atheism The Great Alternative] Reference
The Vizier of Nourgehan was avaricious; but for fear of displeasing his master, he concealed that vice with the utmost care. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
She told him that the wars of the tribe were displeasing to the Great Spirit, and they must make peace with the Sioux nation. From Wordnik.com. [Three Years on the Plains Observations of Indians, 1867-1870] Reference
She often did things, and said things, and thought things that she knew were displeasing to both, but she did not want to do so. From Wordnik.com. [Katie Robertson A Girls Story of Factory Life] Reference
The young man's evident desire to talk more than circumstances warranted, was displeasing to her, and she rejoined very stiffly. From Wordnik.com. [Wired Love A Romance of Dots and Dashes] Reference
Made-up eyes are by no means desirable, and to many are singularly displeasing; but the same may be said of made-up faces generally. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
It saw beneath it its own likeness; but no longer that of an awkward grayish bird, ugly and displeasing -- it was the figure of a swan. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
This was shortly after the 1933 repeal of Prohibition, and those findings were deeply displeasing to a number of teetotaling legislators. From Wordnik.com. [A burned page from Virginia's liquor past] Reference
I should die with vexation were I capable of displeasing you; but I am not afraid that I will ever be so unlucky as to give you offence. '. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
If a color scheme is displeasing, the fault may be in the wrong selection of hues, in weak values, in ill-matched intensities or all three. From Wordnik.com. [Human Traits and their Social Significance] Reference
Possibly we recollect, next time that our eyes light upon a volume so discarded, that it was once displeasing, and we never take it up again. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
In his report, Perry says that all of the children exhibited a "permeating and pervasive fear of displeasing David or betraying his 'secrets'.". From Wordnik.com. [Children Of The Cult] Reference
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