Always try to do something for the other fellow and you will be agreeably surprised how things come your way - how many pleasing things are done for you. From LearnThat.org. [Claude M. Bristol]
A pleasing piece of news. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a pleasing performance. From Dictionary.com.
Adverb : Please come here. Will you please turn the radio off?. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used with object) : to please the public. ,May it please your Majesty. From Dictionary.com.
Verb (used without object) : Go where you please. ,manners that please. From Dictionary.com.
I had succeeded, to a flattering degree, in pleasing both of the warring police factions. From Wordnik.com. [Madeleine: An Autobiography] Reference
By the way, after 10 years, I have never been successful in pleasing my mother-in-law yet. From Wordnik.com. [The First Year At Home] Reference
Her intellect is not in pleasing any politician, her mission is to serve the people fairly. From Wordnik.com. [Begala calls Palin 'about half a whack job'] Reference
His face was handsome and the expression pleasing, though the mouth was large and the lips rather thick. From Wordnik.com. [Blown to Bits The Lonely Man of Rakata, the Malay Archipelago] Reference
I'd love to hear land buying tales and costs, both in pleasing residental areas of cities and city-accessible rural living. From Wordnik.com. [Property values in Mexico] Reference
Ronald Moore was a much better discussant, but he still seemed too interested in pleasing his assumed audience in the panel. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-08-01] Reference
Although its shores are not enriched with wood, its appearance is pleasing from the islands with which the central part is studded. From Wordnik.com. [Glimpses of Life and Manners in Persia] Reference
Lance took a leaf out of his chum's book, too, and when he declaimed his lines he succeeded in pleasing Jess and Laura the first time. From Wordnik.com. [The Girls of Central High on the Stage: or, The Play That Took the Prize] Reference
"You said you had started them with the idea of pleasing me --". From Wordnik.com. [The Descent of Man and Other Stories] Reference
Miss Carr, with what Addison might call a pleasing fortune: or perhaps. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of Edward FitzGerald in two volumes, Vol. 1] Reference
The great superintendent conceived the idea of pleasing the young king, Louis. From Wordnik.com. [The Tapestry Book] Reference
From the horrible look on his face, Madelyne decided he found the idea pleasing. From Wordnik.com. [Honor’s Splendour] Reference
Then he recalls a pleasing anecdote of Charles Eliot Norton, who introduced the attractions. From Wordnik.com. [Mark Twain: A Biography] Reference
It’s not brilliant, but it’s entertaining, and it combines mystery and adventure in pleasing ways. From Wordnik.com. [Upcoming 11/4/2009] Reference
While I have to agree, Berrima is aesthetically pleasing, that is the ONLY thing that place has going for it. From Wordnik.com. [sierrazen Diary Entry] Reference
Kit had chosen it with the idea of pleasing her old nurse, who, above everything else, delighted in bright clothes. From Wordnik.com. [The Merriweather Girls in Quest of Treasure] Reference
I did not think much of her, but I pretended to be immensely struck, with the idea of pleasing the good-natured knight. From Wordnik.com. [The Complete Memoirs of Jacques Casanova] Reference
Manners may be defined as the pleasing or unpleasing expression of our thoughts and intentions, whether in word or action. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Conduct] Reference
It prevails from a secret self-pleasing, that is apt to grow on the minds of men from a singularity in the performance of duties. From Wordnik.com. [The Sermons of John Owen] Reference
There was nothing surprising in their not having chemises, for the chemise is a scarce article in Spain, but the idea of pleasing. From Wordnik.com. [The memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt] Reference
Then the notion of pleasing superior powers by self-inflicted pain is thrown out, and all the primitive superstition is eliminated. From Wordnik.com. [Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals] Reference
I am sure you would have been pleased with it, because I have been feeding my fancy for some months with the notion of pleasing you. From Wordnik.com. [The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb] Reference
Saladin (who had begun to find the sound of his full, unEnglished name pleasing for the first time in twenty years) found himself wishing. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
Telkom Group delivered a "pleasing" 9.8 percent growth in revenue to. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
I might have submitted to the ordeal with much more 'pleasing' results. From Wordnik.com. [The Pool in the Desert] Reference
He added that the first two weeks of clearance sales have been "pleasing". From Wordnik.com. [David Jones CEO Quits Over Behavior] Reference
Saturday returned to South Africa from a "pleasing" investment drive in Europe. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
So, he is kind of pleasing the supreme leader with his very critical stance and playing to some domestic constituencies. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jun 23, 2009] Reference
Management said the performance of refurbished stores has been "pleasing," citing improvements in sales and gross margins. From Wordnik.com. [Woolworths Wins Australia's Top Title] Reference
Matosa found it "pleasing" that a costs order was made against the first four applicants in the matter and their instructing attorney. From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
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