6355 examples of satisfactions in sentences

'Government (said he) has deprived us of our ancient power; but it cannot deprive us of our domestick satisfactions.

He liked the stillness of the house; he felt a sense of ownership of the whole of it: both of these satisfactions were to be interfered with now.

When I love youwith all of me, why do I know that only you are worth my hate? TOM: It's the fear of easy satisfactions.

[Footnote 1: Satisfactions]

This made me soon hope that I had something in me worth cultivating, and his Conversation made me sensible of Satisfactions in a regular Way, which I had never before imagined.

These Things, dear Madam, will be lasting Satisfactions, when the fine Ladies, and the Coxcombs by whom they form themselves, are irreparably ridiculous, ridiculous in old Age.

The following Letters bear a pleasing Image of the Joys and Satisfactions of private Life.

His face was still the face of a covetous bullying boy, with a large appetite for primitive satisfactions and a sturdy belief in his intrinsic right to them.

Wordsworth (it may seem strange to include that venerable figure among rebels, but so long as he was more poetic than venerable he stood in perpetual rebellion against the motives, pursuits, and satisfactions of his time)Wordsworth till he was forty-five, Byron all his short life, Newman, Carlyle, Dickens, Matthew Arnold, Ruskinamong English writers those have proved themselves the dynamic people.

His spirit will have been illumined by a hope and an indignation that make the usual aims and satisfactions of the world appear trivial and fond.

What pain of spikes and sharpened points, what torment that this body can endure from cold or hunger, from human torture and burning flame, what pleasure that it can enjoy from food and wine and raiment and all the satisfactions of sense is to be compared with the glory that may be revealed at any moment in thy soul?

He wrote against Moore's notion of her as "strait-laced," in a spirit of justice awakened by his new satisfactions and hopes: but there are in the narrative no signs of love on his part,nothing more than an amiable complacency in the discovery of her attachment to him.

He made no pleasurable expense on himself, and was contented with a very decent appearance in his family, without affecting such an air of grandeur as could not have been supported without sacrificing to it satisfactions far nobler, and, to a temper like his, far more delightful.

It was the life of a man whose career was limited both by his own temperament and by the public circumstances of his times; of one who set more value upon ideas than upon events; who sought intellectual satisfactions and distinctions rather than personal advancement; who affected his contemporaries by his thought and his integrity of principle more than by power of commanding position or energy of resolute will.

We must have not only the fullest treatment of the temptations, vanities, abuses, and absurdities of office, but all its dreams, its sense of constructive order, its consolations, its sense of service, and its nobler satisfactions.

The Utopians went all in coarse linen and undyed woolwhy should the world be coloured?and all the economy of labour and shortening of the working day was to no other end than to prolong the years of study and the joys of reading aloud, the simple satisfactions of the good boy at his lessons, to the very end of life.

But the beauty of winter seems a spiritual, almost a supernatural, thing, austere and forbidding at first, but on a nearer approach found to be rich in exquisite exhilaration, in rare and lofty discoveries and satisfactions of the soul.

Doomed to perish as the beasts, they choose, it would seem with no marked reluctance, to live the life of the beast, a life apparently not without its satisfactions.

© 20Sep42; AA411294. Educational Testing Service (PWH); 12Feb70; R479384. Satisfactions found in reading fiction, inventory H-B2.

Religious concepts, inventory H-C1. SEE MCLEAN, MILTON D. Satisfactions found in reading fiction, inventory H-B2.

© 20Sep42; AA411294. Educational Testing Service (PWH); 12Feb70; R479384. Satisfactions found in reading fiction, inventory H-B2.

Religious concepts, inventory H-C1. SEE MCLEAN, MILTON D. Satisfactions found in reading fiction, inventory H-B2.

It is true, Madam, there is to be sure very great Satisfactions to be expected in the Commerce of a Man of Honour, whom one tenderly loves; but I find so much Satisfaction in the Reflection, how much I mitigate a good Man's Pains, whose Welfare depends upon my Assiduity about him, that I wittingly exclude the loose Gratifications of Passion for the solid Reflections of Duty.

It is very ordinary with those of this Character to be attentive only to their own Satisfactions, and have very little Bowels for the Concerns or Sorrows of other Men; nay, they are capable of purchasing their own Pleasures at the Expence of giving Pain to others.

One of the great satisfactions of my life came when, on a beautiful May morning in 1890, I was able to answer his inquiry in the affirmative.

6355 examples of  satisfactions  in sentences