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Pleased in sentence

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I received a letter three hours before the Abraham Lincoln left its Brooklyn pier; the letter read as follows: Pierre AronnaxProfessor at the Paris Museum Fifth Avenue HotelNew YorkSir:If you would like to join the expedition on the Abraham Lincoln, the government of the Union will be pleased to regard you as France's representative in this undertaking.
I let the gallant lad babble as he pleased, without giving him much in the way of a reply.
No matter what happens, one of us will be pleased.
My reply obviously pleased Captain Nemo.
As soon as he saw me, he came over, graciously offered me a cigar, and said to me:"Well, professor, are you pleased with this Red Sea?Have you seen enough of its hidden wonders, its fish and zoophytes, its gardens of sponges and forests of coral?
All the same he was always pleased with him, and even said the "young man" had a very good memory.
Emma was secretly pleased that she had reached at a first attempt the rare ideal of pale lives, never attained by mediocre hearts.
He told her, one after the other, the people he had met, the villages where he had been, the prescriptions he had written, and, well pleased with himself, he finished the remainder of the boiled beef and onions, picked pieces off the cheese, munched an apple, emptied his water-bottle, and then went to bed, and lay on his back and snored.
She kept saying they must be economical since they were not rich, adding that she was very contented, very happy, that Tostes pleased her very much, with other speeches that closed the mouth of her mother-in-law.
She was as pleased as a child to push with her finger the large tapestried door.
The doctor, of course, would do as he pleased; he was not to trouble himself, especially just now, when he would have a lot of worry.
She never gave it a thought, but had been greatly pleased to see the inhabitants of Verrieres come less frequently to her house.
The peasant did not appear any too well pleased to see the Mayor coming towards him; for his pieces of wood were blocking the path, and had been laid there in contravention of the law.
Pere Sorel, for it was he, was greatly surprised and even more pleased by the singular offer which M. de Renal made him with regard to his son Julien.
'Well, my friend,' she said to him after a little, 'are you pleased with my husband?''How should I not be?'Julien answered with a bitter smile; 'he has given me a hundred francs.'
Lost in a vague and pleasant dream, so foreign to his nature, gently pressing that hand which pleased him as an example of perfect beauty, he gave a divided attention to the rustle of the leaves of the lime, stirred by the gentle night breeze, and to the dogs at the mill by the Doubs, barking in the distance.
Madame de Renal, also pleased with her pretty gown, and with what Julien said to her about it, had proposed a turn in the garden; soon she had confessed that she was not well enough to walk.
Often he would have been just as well pleased not to be interrupted by an assignation, the tension of waiting for which, even before the little scene in the orchard, would have left him incapable of reading.
'Will he be pleased with me?''This little peasant upon whom we have lavished every attention, including presents, may be innocent,' she said at length, 'but he is none the less the occasion of the first insult I have ever received ...Sir, when I read that abominable document, I vowed that either he or I should leave your roof.''Do you wish to create a scandal that will dishonour me and yourself as well?
They were already on the landing, and the poor tutor, on the verge of disgrace, was ushering out with all due respect the future Prefect of some fortunate Department, when it pleased the latter gentleman to occupy himself with Julien's career, to praise his moderation where his own interests were concerned, etc., etc.Finally M. de Maugiron, taking him in his arms in the most fatherly manner, suggested to him that he should leave M. de Renal and enter the household of an official who had children to educate, and who, like King Philip, would thank heaven, not so much for having given him them as for having caused them to be born in the neighbourhood of M. Julien.
In addition, this abbe who seemed so greatly interested in M. Pirard's resignation, was dressed with an elegance that greatly pleased Julien, who had never seen its like on any other priest.
The prelate, growing more and more pleased with the close of his evening, spoke for a moment of ecclesiastical history.
If he is pleased with you, your salary may rise in time to eight thousand francs.
People see that you are not pleased when they speak to you; in a social environment like this, you are doomed to misfortune, if you do not succeed in winning respect.
Comte Norbert appeared in the library about three o'clock; he had come to study a newspaper, in order to be able to talk politics that evening, and was quite pleased to find Julien, whose existence he had forgotten.
So long as you did not speak lightly of God, or of the clergy, or of the King, or of the men in power, or of the artists patronised by the court, or of anything established; so long as you did not say anything good of Beranger, or of the opposition press, or of Voltaire, or of Rousseau, or of anything that allowed itself the liberty of a little freedom of speech; so long, above all, as you did not talk politics, you could discuss anything you pleased with freedom.
'Will Monsieur le Marquis be graciously pleased to let me decline this gift.
'I have all sorts of weapons and pistols,' replied Julien, no less pleased at having something to say.
After a long course of wandering between drawing-room and garden, he found himself horribly tired; this was an initial success which pleased him greatly.
If in your generosity you are pleased to allow us six thousand francs upon which to live, I shall accept them with gratitude: otherwise, Julien intends to settle at Besancon where he will take up the profession of teacher of Latin and Literature.
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