27439 examples of pleases in sentences

"A little bird I am, Shut from the fields of air, And in my cage I sit and sing To Him who placed me there; Well pleased a prisoner to be, Because, my God, it pleases Thee.

But you have no time for this before the merciful young woman enters to say that she is going to another school, where she can do as she pleases and have better horses, too, and the more you and Nell assure her that there is no school in which she can learn without obedience, and that her horse was too good, if anything, the more determined she becomes, and soon you wisely desist.

Women who are not fat and whose muscles are hard, may choose whichsoever one of these pleases them, but fat women, and women whose flesh is not too solid, must wear thick trousers, and would better have them lined with buckskin, unless they would be transformed into what Sairey would call "a mask of bruiges," and would frequent remark to Mrs. Harris that such was what she expected.

"Now every prospect pleases, And only Julia's vile," she paraphrased from the old hymn, into Kathleen's private ear.

If satire or heroic strains she writes, 120 Her hero pleases and her satire bites.

To a certain extent, it is a musical and poetic autobiography, the victorious young Knight Walter, who sings as he pleases, without regard to pedantic rules, representing Wagner himself and the "music of the future," while the vain and malicious Beckmesser stands for the critics, and Hans Sachs for enlightened public opinion.

But when the story of the poem is safely concerned with some reality, he can, of course, graft on this as much appropriate invention as he pleases; it will be one of his ways of elaborating his main, unifying purposeand to call it "unifying" is to assume that, however brilliant his surrounding invention may be, the purpose will always be firmly implicit in the central subject.

Nay," adds he, taking a purse from his pocket, "I will give you the means to return to Alicante, where you may live as better pleases you.

"But," says he, "if you will do us yet another favour, Captain, will you suffer one of your men to carry a letter to Mistress Godwin's steward at Chislehurst, that he may come hither to relieve us from our present straits?" "Aye," answers he, "I will take the letter gladly, myself; for nothing pleases me better than a ramble in the country where I was born and bred.

Even what his fancye pleases.

In short, it is necessary to deal with them as though they were undoubted rogues, and this pleases them much more than to appear unsuspicious.

"If it pleases you to think there is a ghost there, and to go on talking to it, do so, and welcome.

They see every man indulged in worshiping God as he pleases, and they see many indulged in neglecting his worship entirelyThey see men every where enjoying the liberty of doing what is rightand such liberty they rightly decide is the perfection of freedom.

I am willing to be sick, or to die, or to recover, just as God pleases; whatever pleases him pleases me.

I am willing to be sick, or to die, or to recover, just as God pleases; whatever pleases him pleases me.

I am willing to be sick, or to die, or to recover, just as God pleases; whatever pleases him pleases me.

To play, is for a man to do what he pleases, or to do nothingto go about soothing his particular fancies.

On the way the poet reasoned thus to himself: "This coachman has in his pocket, as they all have, a Communal passport, which allows him to go out and come into Paris as he pleases; let me remember the fourth act of my last melodrama, and I am saved.

A dramatist may, if he pleases (though it is a difficult task), break wholly unfamiliar ground in the past; but where a historic legend exists he must respect it at his peril.

For the privilege of doing and saving precisely what one pleases becomes in the case of sensible people, if you examine it, a cause of prosperity to all: but in the case of the foolish, a cause of disaster.

Then whatever pleases you after consulting the Peers will be immediately a law, and wars against enemies may be waged with secrecy and at an opportune time; those to whom a trust is committed will be appointed because of excellence and not by lot and strife for office; the good will be honored without jealousy and the bad punished without opposition.

He was so swarthy, that a woman, as he was going by a door in Verona, is said to have pointed him out to another, with a remark which made the saturnine poet smile"That is the man who goes to hell whenever he pleases, and brings back news of the people there."

Since, therefore, it pleases you that a distinction should be made between what commanders do by public authority, and what on their own suggestion, there was a treaty between us made by the consul Lutatius; in which, though provision was made for the allies of both, there is no provision made for the Saguntines, for they were not as yet your allies.

2. It protects their persons, by giving their master a right to flog, wound, and beat them when he pleases.

Let every State import what it pleases.

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