69 collocations for pleasures

"Moreover there is high festival at the minster with much chanting and glorification in thy behalfand 'tis intended to make for thee a triumphal pageantfair maidens to strow flowers beneath thy horse's feet, musicians to pleasure thee with pipe and taborand" "Enough, enough, Benedict.

We repeat with pleasure our assurances of confidence in your Administration and our ardent wish that your unabated zeal for the public good may be rewarded by the durable prosperity of the nation, and every ingredient of personal happiness.

But Beltane spake on unheeding: "Thou dost know me for a hunted man with a price upon my head, but thou art thing so poor thy death can pleasure no man.

" Herbert longed to go to her, and thus disperse all these foreboding fears, but that pleasure the near approach of his ordination prevented; but fondly he looked forward with unalloyed hope in a few months to seek his Mary, and at once banish all indefinable sorrow by making her his own.

By that devil that haunted him at every moment, that crossed him at every step, that fixed at pleasure his arrows in his heart, and made mows and mockery at his insufferable tortures.

Thou nurse of innocence, fair virtue's friend, Silent, tho' rapturous, pleasures thee attend.

We are anxious to pleasure our noble brother of Burgundy in all things, and heartily desire the marriage between our son and the illustrious Princess of Burgundy, but we shall not move toward it until our said noble brother shall return from Switzerland, nor will we do aught to distract his attention from the perilous business he now has on hand.

Death had lost its terrors and pleasure its charms.

This was no fancy spun to pleasure a child.

But vanity pleases herself with such slight gratifications, and looks forward to pleasure so remotely consequential, that her practices raise no alarm, and her stratagems are not easily discovered.

"There's nothing I wouldna do to pleasure ye, Cornel," taking a step further back.

But though I am unskilled in arms, yet it will pleasure me a great deal to accept so gentle and courteous a challenge as that which you give me.

It is not surprising, then, if this persecuted party was favorable to a revolution and saw with pleasure their deliverers on the frontiers.

My regiment had been detailed for this service; and, though numerically weak, and suffering from sickness, the officers and men hailed with pleasure the approaching departure from Delhi.

"Self-love and Reason to one end aspire, Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire; But greedy that its object would devour, This taste the honey, and not wound the flower.

The mother was fond of presiding at the music lessons, and of leading the young teacher to air his views about religion and life, and she watched with pleasure the gradual development of what was inevitable, a more than musical sympathy between the daughter and the teacher.

be gold the tempting bane, "The curse that desolates thy hostile plain; "May pleasure tinge with venom'd drops the bowl, 180 "And luxury unnerve the sick'ning soul.

These are some of those whom I remember, and, by the way, I ought to add the Duke of Westminster and Tom Jennings, names interesting and distinguished, and indicative of a phase of life ever full of enjoyment such as is not known out of the sporting world, where excitement lends to pleasure the effervescence and sparkle which make life something more than animal existence.

Or must you forsake us to pleasure the Emperor, who, poor man, cannot sleep of nights in his bed at Ratisbon till the eloquent Doctor is come to cheer him with the full-flowing river of speech?

They are always found wholly insufficient to satisfy one who makes pleasure the whole end and aim of his being.

"It is not pain," said she, clasping me to her breast; "it is pleasure too exquisite for my weak nerves to bear.

Rivals, I see what it was that you drest And made your selves fine for; a Place in her Breast: You put on your Colours to pleasure her Eye, To be pluckt by her Hand, on her Bosom to die.

whence I drew my grievous woe, That from its sight alone could pleasure flow, And death and torment both seemed exquisite.

Then thou hast seen me in that hour, When every nerve of life was new, When pleasures fann'd youth's infant flower, And Hope her witcheries round it threw.

'Tis hard for one To pleasure all the fools that would be shown: And yet not two in ten will pass the town.

69 collocations for  pleasures