Adjective : a pleasurable experience. From Dictionary.com.
Beth's pulse quickened pleasurably and her colour rose. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Josephus cocked one ear, his small body pleasurably alert. From Wordnik.com. [Antony Gray,—Gardener] Reference
"I understood that you were much more pleasurably employed.". From Wordnik.com. [Princess Zara] Reference
It was as if Mr. Fox had become rather pleasurably abstracted. From Wordnik.com. [Scales of Justice]
If you cannot think pleasurably over your misfortune, forget it. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Thirty years old, perhaps, and pleasurably aware of his new status. From Wordnik.com. [The Hermit of Eyton Forest]
Tibetan, as well as which read naturally and pleasurably in English. From Wordnik.com. [Workshop for Tibetans Translating Dharma: Report] Reference
But neither light, nor air, nor sound availed to move her pleasurably. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
How pleasurably he had once perceived all these possible joys and powers!. From Wordnik.com. [The Opium Habit] Reference
They set the sensitive sympathetic chords of memory vibrating pleasurably. From Wordnik.com. [The Heavenly Twins] Reference
She expected nothing, yet she was pleasurably satisfied, perfectly content. From Wordnik.com. [The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius] Reference
Boase had as little vanity as any man, but it was pleasurably pricked by this. From Wordnik.com. [Secret Bread] Reference
He sat back, pleasurably expectant, a boy waiting for a firecracker to explode. From Wordnik.com. [When The Bough Breaks]
Every one felt pleasurably, in their different ways, the quiet and beauty of the scene. From Wordnik.com. [Armadale] Reference
Crusoe 'were kept away from schoolboys it would doubtless be read pleasurably by adults. From Wordnik.com. [An Estimate of the Value and Influence of Works of Fiction in Modern Times] Reference
Hermione looked pleasurably flustered but this time Krum had not come to compliment her. From Wordnik.com. [Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows]
He seized her hand in both his own and crushed it to his lips so that it hurt pleasurably. From Wordnik.com. [The Return of Blue Pete] Reference
Contrariwise, if he thinks that the said object is pleasurably affected, he will feel pain. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics] Reference
Her head was pleasurably swimming, her mind detached, her body warm and heated under his hand. From Wordnik.com. [The Ideal Bride]
To and fro, to and fro, he went, his hands lightly clasped, his breath deeply and pleasurably taken. From Wordnik.com. [Lay Morals] Reference
Half a dozen hands reached pleasurably to hoist him to his feet and sit him down gently on a cask of wine. From Wordnik.com. [St. Peter's Fair]
If we conceive that anyone pleasurably affects an object of our hate, we shall feel hatred towards him also. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics] Reference
"So he will," agreed the fond father, and stretched his lithe, light body pleasurably in the strengthening sun. From Wordnik.com. [An Excellent Mystery]
In the intervals of silence, Inman tried to decide which part of the evening he might dwell on most pleasurably. From Wordnik.com. [Cold Mountain]
It excites you pleasurably, and when you see life through its medium you never suspect that the vision is distorted. From Wordnik.com. [Ideala] Reference
It's -- you know, there are -- there are places where people can live quite densely and pleasurably and where transit works. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 14, 2006] Reference
If we conceive that anything pleasurably affects some object of our love, we shall be affected with love towards that thing. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics] Reference
A man is as much affected pleasurably or painfully by the image of a thing past or future as by the image of a thing present. From Wordnik.com. [The Ethics] Reference
Yet here he was, considering soberly, yea pleasurably, a move involving money, at a time when money was more than usually scarce. From Wordnik.com. [The Wind Before the Dawn] Reference
We came instead to a street-car, and half a mile of arbour, and all the Venetians pleasurably preparing to take carriage exercise. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')] Reference
They had made love again before breakfast, and now her body ached heavily and pleasurably with an unfamiliar, satisfied lassitude. From Wordnik.com. [The Christmas Bride]
There was a moment of silence, a wake, to thank the old cabin cruiser for having been around so long, so usefully, and pleasurably. From Wordnik.com. [Just a Corpse at Twilight]
Obj. 3: Further, virtue is a habit: which is defined as a "quality not easily removed, by which one may act easily and pleasurably.". From Wordnik.com. [Summa Theologica, Part III (Tertia Pars) From the Complete American Edition] Reference
For my own part, I liked them and admired them, for their quiet self-possession and dignified ease impressed me pleasurably at once. From Wordnik.com. [Erewhon] Reference
If everybody brings their own excess and then works together on all the preparation, the time goes much faster and more pleasurably. From Wordnik.com. [Kurt Michael Friese: Coping with Tomato Overload] Reference
Her little mouse-eyes -- you wouldn't have dreamed they could ever be large and wistful, nor innocent, either -- twinkled pleasurably. From Wordnik.com. [The Witness] Reference
Though he was not over fond of dogs, the breadth and solidity of this one always affected Soames pleasurably — better than that little. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Spoon] Reference
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