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Pleased in sentence

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He was pleased with the firm expression of his counsel.
I shall give a thousand francs to each of my brothers, and the remainder to you.''Very good,' said the old man, 'that remainder is my due; but since God has been graciously pleased to touch your heart, if you wish to die like a good Christian, you ought first to pay your debts.
Nothing pleased him any more, either in real life or in imagination.
K was pleased at the tension among all the people there as they listened to him, a rustling rose from the silence which was more invigorating than the most ecstatic applause could have been.
"I was talking about your case with the manufacturer yesterday, and he asked me if I wouldn't like to help you, and I answered: 'He can come and see me if he likes', and now I'm pleased to see you here so soon.
Block was very pleased at this and with lively, but silent, gestures he immediately urged her to intercede for him with the lawyer.
"I'm pleased to hear it," said the lawyer.
He was extremely pleased to be accompanied by someone who was so learned and so pleasant - by this he meant K., who was occupied not with listening to the Italian but the director - and asked if he would be so kind, if the time was suitable, to meet him in the cathedral in two hours' time at about ten o'clock.
He started walking, which pleased the gentlemen and some of their pleasure conveyed itself to him.
He appeared to be quite pleased to sing it, for he came up at once, and sat down to the piano without another word.
We thanked them over and over again, and we said it was a lovely night, and we wished them a pleasant trip, and, I think, I invited them all to come and spend a week with me, and my cousin said her mother would be so pleased to see them.
He was pleased when he finally had his head in front of the doorway, but then saw that it was too narrow, and his body was too broad to get through it without further difficulty.
He was so pleased he almost laughed, as he was even hungrier than he had been that morning, and immediately dipped his head into the milk, nearly covering his eyes with it.
The traveler listened to her with that pleased indulgence, with which virtuous age loves to contemplate the ardor of youthful innocence; but making no reply, he turned to the fire, and continued for some time gazing on its embers, in silence.
"Pray, Colonel Wellmere," said Frances, recovering her good humor, and raising her joyous eyes once more to the face of the gentleman, "was the Lord Percy of Lexington a kinsman of him who fought at Chevy Chase?""Why, Miss Fanny, you are becoming a rebel," said the colonel, endeavoring to laugh away the anger he felt; "what you are pleased to insinuate was a chase at Lexington, was nothing more than a judicious retreat - a-kind of - ""Running fight," interrupted the good-humored girl, laying a great emphasis on the first word.
A fine young man was now seen sitting near the entrance, who, by his smiling countenance, was evidently a pleased listener to the conversation.
They observed the dragoon, on gaining the lawn, in earnest and apparently pleased conversation with his two subalterns.
Although the housekeeper did not altogether comprehend the other's meaning, she knew he used a compliment, and as such was highly pleased with what he said.
Miss Peyton was a pleased listener, as she dispensed the bounties of the tea table, and Sarah frequently bowed her blushing countenance to her needlework, as her face glowed at the flattering remarks of her companion.
The washerwoman was pleased with the softness of her lover's manner, but dreadfully scandalized at his insinuation.
Although inwardly much pleased with any cause of delay to a service that he so little relished, Hollister affected some displeasure at the detention.
Katy was too much pleased with this compliment to make any resistance, while he buckled her close to his own herculean frame, and, driving a spur into his charger, they flew from the lawn with a rapidity that defied further denial.
In the background were arranged the inmates of the family who owned the dwelling, and behind them, again, was a row of shining faces of ebony, glistening with pleased wonder.
You have I trusted more than all; I early saw in you a regard to truth and principle, that, I am pleased to say, has never deceived me - you alone know my secret agents in the city, and on your fidelity depend, not only their fortunes, but their lives."
He slept on doorsteps in fine weather and in empty hogsheads in wet; he did not have to go to school or to church, or call any being master or obey anybody; he could go fishing or swimming when and where he chose, and stay as long as it suited him; nobody forbade him to fight; he could sit up as late as he pleased; he was always the first boy that went barefoot in the spring and the last to resume leather in the fall; he never had to wash, nor put on clean clothes; he could swear wonderfully.
And she hit his hand a smart rap, but reddened and looked pleased, nevertheless.
So when this one came to the steading at West Inch I was not best pleased to see her.
My folk were pleased about it, and I tried to be pleased too.
I do not know which was best pleased, and they would talk of nothing but what de Lapp had given them.
"A husband for Cousin Edie," said I.They thought I was daffing when I said that; but when they came to understand that it was the real truth, they were as proud and as pleased as if I had told them that she had married the laird.
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