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Pleased in sentence

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This is puzzling, because one would expect savers to be pleased with rising asset prices.
Explaining to Oblonsky the state of elation he was in, he said he felt as pleased as a dog that was being taught to jump through a hoop, and which, having accomplished what was demanded of it, barks and wags its tail and jumps for joy upon the tables and window-sills.
'Then this is what we must do: you go and fetch him in our carriage, and Sergius Ivanich, if he will be so kind, will go first and will send the carriage back.''Of course, I shall be very pleased!''And we will follow immediately with him...Have your trunks been sent off?' inquired Oblonsky.
With light hearts they drank the warm wine and water from the shallow cup, and their spirits rose still higher when the priest, throwing back his vestments, took their hands in his and led them round the lectern while a bass voice sang, Rejoice O Isaiah!Young Shcherbatsky and Chirikov, who were supporting the crowns and getting entangled in the bride's train, smiled too and were pleased without knowing why, when they chanced to lag behind or jostle the young couple if the priest happened to stop.
Vronsky would never have thought he could be so pleased to see Golenishchev, but probably he was himself unaware how bored he was.
'How pleased I am to see you!' said Vronsky, a friendly smile disclosing his fine white teeth.
I am very, very pleased.''Come in!
Vronsky at once guessed that Golenishchev was one of that sort, and was therefore doubly pleased to have met him; and Golenishchev behaved to Anna, when he had been introduced, as well as Vronsky could have wished.
She blushed when Vronsky showed Golenishchev in, and the childlike flush that suffused her open and handsome face pleased him exceedingly.
But what pleased him most was that at once and apparently intentionally to prevent any possibility of misapprehension in the stranger's mind, she called Vronsky simply Alexis, and said that they were about to move into a house of their own, called a palazzo, which they had just taken.
This straightforward and simple attitude toward her own position pleased Golenishchev.
'I am very pleased about one thing,' said Anna to Golenishchev when they had returned to the hotel.
'He is very talented,' said Anna with a pleased smile.
Now he was pleased and excited by the visit to his studio of these grand Russians who had come in a carriage.
But in spite of all this, as he turned over his studies, pulled up the blinds, and withdrew the sheet from his picture, he felt very excited – all the more so because, though he regarded distinguished and wealthy Russians as mostly beasts and fools, Vronsky and especially Anna pleased him.
That expression pleased her more than all else she saw and she felt that it was the centre of the picture, and that therefore praise of it would be agreeable to the artist.
'Oh, I shall be very pleased: pray do!' said Mikhaylov with a feigned smile.
Meanwhile Mikhaylov, though Anna's portrait had much engrossed him, was even better pleased than they when the sittings were over and he was no longer obliged to listen to Golenishchev's disquisitions on art and was able to forget Vronsky's paintings.
There she had sometimes wished for cabbage with kvas, or sweets, and could not have them; but now she might order whatever she pleased, and could if she liked buy heaps of sweets, spend any amount of money, and order all the puddings she pleased.
'He will be pleased.
Nicholas seemed pleased at this, but said he was afraid the condition he was in might frighten her.
'Because I am departing,' he repeated, as if that word pleased him.
'But who will throw the stone?' said he, evidently pleased with his role.
'Well, and is he pleased?''How can he help being pleased at the Tsar's favour?
Of all his regimental friends Alexis liked you best.''I shall be very pleased,' said Yashvin, with a smile which showed Vronsky that he liked Anna very much.
We shall be very pleased,' replied Varenka with a blush.
He looked at Dolly, and was not pleased with her either.
Then why is she so pleased?
'I shall be very pleased!
remonstrated Kitty, at the bottom of her heart pleased by the force of love for her which was now expressing itself in his jealousy.
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