Example Sentences

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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

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 McCarthy, Justin H. (Justin Huntly)

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 Sell, Edward

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 Carpenter, S. C. (Stephen Cullen)