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am pleasing

  • present progressive
    of please (1st person singular).
    please
    adverb
    (used as a polite addition to requests, commands, etc.) if you would be so obliging; kindly.

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"People always had been nice to me," she confesses, "because I am pleasing but now this was going to be a different thing."

From Time Magazine Archive

She to whom I am pleasing is ever pleasing to me.

From The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810 by S. C. (Stephen Cullen) Carpenter

When washing the nostrils say: "O my God, if I am pleasing in Thy sight, perfume me with the odours of Paradise."

From The Faith of Islam by Edward Sell

Pretty Tiffany made a dainty grimace as she answered: “I think I am pleasing enough to behold, yet he gave me no more than a glance when he gave me good-day.”

From The Lady of Loyalty House A Novel by Justin H. (Justin Huntly) McCarthy