" "That you shall have, and in plenty," the commandant said, as if relieved at knowing our wants could be gratified with so little trouble, and Sergeant Corney added: "Only so much as we can put in our pockets, for this is not the time to encumber ourselves even with provisions.

" Then a derisive howl followed the line as it passed through the masses of the army, and remarks of an acrid nature were made that were not gratifying to the departing patriots: "Don't you want a guard to protect you?" "Does your mamma know you're out alone?" "Wait till to-morrow and we'll send Beauregard's forces to see you safe home.

All this seemed very gratifying to Uncle John.

He smiled, gratified at the recollection.

Is it not reasonable to imagine that if they should be gratified in this demand, and should find even this expedient baffled by the abilities which they have so often encountered without success, they would proceed to measures yet more atrocious, and punish him without evidence, whom they call to a trial without a crime.

At York they saw the wonderful Minster; at Darlington, found themselves in a living colony of Friends; and Elizabeth was gratified by receiving a note and a book of grammar from the famous Lindley Murray, whom she had met and taken tea with at York.

His ambition and pride and avarice were gratified beyond precedent in English history.

To feel the sensation of resting, that weariness is leaving you, and that the process of recuperation is an active, living agency, going on all through the system, while the natural love of repose is being gratified as an independent emotion, constitute the very perfection of mere animal enjoyment.

And were we to suppose his estate in his power to bequeath as he pleases; why should a man resolve, for the gratifying of his foolish humour only, to bastardize his race?

The "second year of embassies" proved more gratifying than the first.

Robert de Gennevillewho apparently had more debts than he conveniently could pay, and more extravagant tastes than he could gratify on a younger son's portionto lay a claim, on his father's death, to the joint title and a moiety of the revenues of the ancient barony of Genneville, that claim being based upon the validity of the fifteenth-century document.

As travel and commerce had increased he had new wants, which he could not gratify without parting with either lands or prerogatives.

But no sooner did the death of the emperour give the enemies of the house of Austria hopes of gratifying without danger their resentment and ambition, than almost all the neighbouring princes began to revive their pretensions, and appeared resolved to recover by force, what they alleged to have been only by force withheld from them.

A few individuals have treated me politely, and I do feel thankful and gratified for it; but a little politeness from an individual of one nation to an individual of another is certainly not a reason that the former's Government should be esteemed incapable of wrong by the latter.

So that these gentlemen seem to be gratified like him, who, after having been kicked downstairs, took comfort when he saw his friend kicked down after him.

Mr. Swiveller appeared immensely gratified over her enjoyment, and when she had satisfied her hunger, applied himself to teaching her the game, which she soon learned tolerably well, being both sharp-witted and cunning.

It is by pictures of life, and profound moral reflection, that expectation is engaged, and gratified throughout the work.

The curiosity you express, with regard to the particulars of my life and the variety of situations in which I may have been, cannot be gratified within the compass of a letter.

It was a positive enjoyment to him to see other people happy, and a friend's success was as gratifying as his own.

This prince had served under Richard at the siege of Acre; but being disgusted by some insult of that haughty monarch, he was so ungenerous as to seize the present opportunity of gratifying at once his avarice and revenge; and he threw the king into prison.

She will have every fancy gratified after our marriage, but there will not be time for much preparations before it." "Let me be fairy godmother," said the duchess.