Mud-pies gratify one of our first and best instincts. From LearnThat.org. [Charles Dudley Warner (1829-1900).]
And my husband will be happy in the enjoyment of every expensive taste which a poor man call gratify, for the first time in his life. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels] Reference
Hence an important means towards happiness is the control of our desires, and the extinction of those that we cannot gratify, which is brought about by virtue. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference
Were I so disposed, I could not gratify the reader. From Wordnik.com. [Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition] Reference
A few of these were sufficient to gratify his hunger. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
A sight to gratify the Romans, a jest for the rabble of. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
"This will gratify some people, and astonish the rest.". From Wordnik.com. [Anthony Lake: Right in Principle, Right in Practice] Reference
If it is possible to gratify it, you know that I love you, my. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
And as to public vengeance, it will never be too late to gratify it. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
And it may gratify employees who lost jobs when Phar-Mor went bankrupt. From Wordnik.com. [Big Crimes, Big Time] Reference
Thomas Parmenter, and, to gratify their revenge, tortured them to death. From Wordnik.com. [An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1] Reference
In fact it seemed to be pleasanter to him to disappoint than to gratify. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
They in truth even vouchsafed to gratify us with the sight of the battle. From Wordnik.com. [Tacitus on Germany] Reference
Tears will only gratify his vanity, besides they are disastrous to beauty. From Wordnik.com. [When the Birds Begin to Sing] Reference
"I know I can spare it," he said to himself, "and it will gratify her so much.". From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference
That is, his stratagems to gratify his passions and to oppress and destroy the poor. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 20: Job The Challoner Revision] Reference
Being such a gentleman, Eric was only too happy to politely gratify its tiny little wish. From Wordnik.com. [Cigarette Molehill] Reference
Marriages are usually contracted to gratify various desires, as love, fortune or position. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
So whether you're into linens or lawn mowers, Saleshound will gratify your inner cheapskate. From Wordnik.com. [Cyberscope] Reference
He lowered his head to gratify his curiosity concerning the technique of beating a bass drum. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Luck] Reference
He preferred yielding his own wish to gratify others, rather than to insist upon having his own way. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
Every one now-a-days feels the stirring of the artistic impulse, and is able in some way to gratify it. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, December 1878] Reference
It is not possible that you are content simply to gratify your appetite and make yourself a slave to your passions. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
The boy thought then that he would like to be a wealthy man, just to be able to gratify his desires for beautiful things. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference
It was, of course, not the lace that I cared for, although most anxious to gratify her who had charged me with the commission. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
He sacrificed everything to his passions, and, in order to gratify them, he boldly plunged into the greatest excess of tyranny. From Wordnik.com. [Eastern Tales by Many Story Tellers] Reference
Many keep them for the profit in eggs and meat, others keep them as a fad, and others to gratify a craving for animal companionship. From Wordnik.com. [Ontario Teachers' Manuals: Nature Study] Reference
And that, of course, is the generational caricature: 75 million people who never met a need they didn't want to gratify — immediately. From Wordnik.com. [The Last Hurrah] Reference
In the spring of 2004 something awakened in him, he told me, which caused him to see that he had been living primarily to gratify himself. From Wordnik.com. [Douglas LaBier: How to Live an 'Inside-Out' Life] Reference
Men gratify him notwithstanding with a good report, and whatever vices he has besides, yet having no enemies, he is sure to be an honest fellow. From Wordnik.com. [Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters] Reference
But it may equally well be to get rid of him, to gratify my self-feeling by becoming the dispenser of bounty, or to inspire admiration in the onlooker. From Wordnik.com. [A Handbook of Ethical Theory] Reference
The studio of Chios was very beautiful, and an artist is pretty well known by the place in which he paints, provided he has means to gratify his tastes. From Wordnik.com. [Saronia A Romance of Ancient Ephesus] Reference
'Mrs. Ogilvie is a rich woman,' said Canon Wrottesley, enjoying a proprietary way of talking of his neighbour, 'and she is able to gratify her love of beautiful raiment. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
Just before we crossed the Bird-Tail divide we came to a wonderful sight, "a sight worth seeing," the driver said; and more to gratify him than because I wanted to, we stopped. From Wordnik.com. [Army Letters from an Officer's Wife, 1871-1888] Reference
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