7 Metaphors for gratification

Taplin, furthermore, admits that "as wives got old, they were often cast off by their husbands, or given to young men in exchange for their sisters or other relations at their disposal" (XXXI.); and again (121): "From childhood to old age the gratification of appetite and passion is the sole purpose of life to the savage.

Gratifications, Tokens of Thankfulness, Dispatch Money, and the like specious Terms, are the Pretences under which Corruption very frequently shelters it self.

All desires are just, proper and right; and their gratification is the means by which nature supplies us that which we need.

The unlawful gratification of the natural appetites has ever been the snare by which millions have been deluded to damnation.

The gratification of the senses, the appeasing of appetites that instantly renewed themselvesthis was the business of the soul.

No doubt they had strong passions to gratify too; but, as is usual with this peculiar race of beings, the gratification was the keener the more it owed to a rebellion against decorum.

The love of seeing, grounded in the love of understanding, has the sense of seeing; and the gratifications proper to it are the various kinds of symmetry and beauty.

7 Metaphors for  gratification