Example Sentences

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She would have laid her head beneath Alex Elder’s feet, if it would have pleasured him; and you are none behind her.

From The Orphans of Glen Elder by Robertson, Margaret M. (Margaret Murray)

Well, seh, yu' would not have pleasured in his company.

From The Jimmyjohn Boss and Other Stories by Wister, Owen

They went homeward presently, Estelle quietly content to have shown Raymond the flower-sprinkled strand, and he well pleased to have pleasured her.

From The Spinners by Phillpotts, Eden

He was a slow-witted man, and he could devise no ready answer, no such cutting gibe as it would have pleasured him to administer.

From Love-at-Arms by Sabatini, Rafael