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He is eagerly waiting for more fiction, as "Expiation" by OCTAVE THANET has scarcely satisfied his craving for the weird and the horrible.

To a certain extent he did understand the lad's hunger, and it seemed a simple enough task to at least partially satisfy him.

What multiplied questions did she not ask him, and how eagerly, how amply, how affectionately he satisfied her just and natural curiosity!

But the stimulants satisfy temporarily their pressing needs, and enable them to continue their labors without exhaustion.

The reckless gratification of his avarice and his passions had seldom satisfied him, without the addition of some bitter insult to the sufferers.

" I have visited portions of this wilderness at least once every summer for the last ten years, and I have never yet been disappointed with my fortnight's sport, or failed to meet with a degree of success which abundantly satisfied me, at least.

But no matter what he wore, Frank satisfied the eye.

And furthermore they have also made foul with their washings and rinsings All the troughs of the village, and all the fountains have sullied; For but one thought is in all, and that how to satisfy quickest Self and the need of the moment, regardless of what may come after.

What multiplied questions did she not ask him, and how eagerly, how amply, how affectionately he satisfied her just and natural curiosity!

An anti-Catholic reaction was declaring itself; and Buckingham at once felt that he could not more effectually satisfy both the Parliament and the people than by suppressing without delay that spirit of religious defiance which was arising in the very palace of the King.

In Buffon's hands the Jardin du Roi was transformed; in proportion as his mind developed, the requirements of the study appeared to him greater and greater; he satisfied them fearlessly, getting together collections at his own expense, opening new galleries, constructing hot-houses, being constantly seconded by the good-will of Louis XV., who never shrank from expenses demanded by Buffon's projects.

Spain may henceforth satisfy the desires of a Cleopatra or an Æsop for pearls.

Life does not satisfy herthere are great empty places in it, and she would be bored often but that she has books to open in these places.

For how else, after the scruples I have heretofore made on this very subject, yet proceeding to correspond, can I honestly satisfy you about my motives for this sudden stop?

It does not, however, appear to have been noticed that these Gospels satisfy most imperfectly the conditions of the problem.

It is important, moreover, to hasten the event in order as soon as possible to satisfy, independently of God, the people who murmur and whose impatience is becoming verily troublesome."

He accepted from authority which satisfied him both intellectually and morally the main scheme of Catholic theology, as the deepest and truest philosophy of religion, satisfying at once conscience and intellect.

After the dead Christ came a triumphal car of the very little girls with wings, signifying I know not what, but intensely satisfying to the onlookers.

"Come," he said at length, "this is not my affair; if you can legally satisfy the lady for whom I am only agent, well and good.

There was policy in this restraint: he had come to see that in all probability he would have to give inthat his curate would most likely satisfy him that he was right.

Only sufficient to banish that horrible craving, to give her a long, satisfying sleep and then just a touch more, very little, to brace her in the morning.

There is something in the nature of this food so peculiarly satisfying and supporting, that it seems to have been destined to become the staple nourishment of a poor population in a cold and bracing climate.

The comparison of the Epicurean life to that of beasts is felt as degrading, precisely because a beast's pleasures do not satisfy a human being's conceptions of happiness.

Then he gave a last look round, presumably to satisfy himself that everything was in order, and shutting the door with a bang, turned the key in the lock.