Example Sentences

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Not even from charity will pleasure come, if charity be taken up simply to appease remorse.

From The Claverings by Trollope, Anthony

Sir, I thank you well for your courtesy and it will pleasure me greatly to go to your castle with you and there to rest me awhile.

From The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions by Pyle, Howard

The old man shall not think but we will pleasure him.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 6 by Hazlitt, William Carew

It tramples upon any and every individual right, whenever its own will, pleasure, or discretion shall so dictate.

From A Letter to Grover Cleveland On His False Inaugural Address, The Usurpations and Crimes of Lawmakers and Judges, and the Consequent Poverty, Ignorance, and Servitude Of The People by Spooner, Lysander

Onesimus disappears, and the final plea is based altogether on the fact that compliance will pleasure and help Paul.

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander