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Your marriage with me is displeasing to your family, and I would be a burden to you, and in your way in the fine places, and among the great friends where you must be.

From The Purcell Papers — Volume 2 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan

I had little inclination to prosecute my pilgrimage in these unsettled times, but it is said, an unfulfilled oath is displeasing to the Almighty; so I was obliged to perform my vow.

From The Banished A Swabian Historical Tale. In Three Volumes. by Hauff, Wilhelm

Thus it is with a guest: his presence is displeasing when his stay has been protracted, and his shadow is oppressive when the time for which he should sojourn is at an end.

From A Boswell of Baghdad With Diversions by Lucas, E. V. (Edward Verrall)

It is exceedingly disagreeable to find that a scheme you have set your head on, or a prospect which smiles before you, is displeasing to the persons who surround you.

From A Charming Fellow, Volume I (of 3) by Trollope, Frances Eleanor

The giving of Thanks is displeasing to him.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph