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Sentences ending with liked

Frank had patience with her, as was his way, an' let her be as interested as she liked. [13]
The stronger the wine, the better it was liked. [4]
And this was what the ladies liked. [4]
True, most of the furniture was supplied and the necessary servants had been obtained, but her Majesty the Queen advised her to take with her a maid or companion whom she personally liked. [10]
There was one that I liked. [4]
But she was prepared to forgive New York a few sins in the matter of commercial slang: New York, which evidently dressed as it liked, and talked as it liked. [9]
Of course, when one lived in a house like this, one could afford to dress and act as one liked. [9]
As an experiment on the price, I offered him a two-centime piece, which is a sort of satire on the very name of money,--when he desired me to help myself to as many oranges as I liked. [4]
Among the gentry of the province Nicholas was respected but not liked. [2]
He was always odd--masterful and odd, and I never could do just as he liked. [11]

Short sentences using liked

Gaston liked the youth. [11]
I liked her very much. [4]
I liked Barrett, too. [5]
He greatly liked the witness. [11]
He rather liked Susan Posey. [6]
Eldon Parr liked self-contained men. [9]
At home she liked simplicity. [4]
I thought you liked him. [4]
Dicky liked the lad's answer. [11]
But Sellers liked it. [5]

Sentences containing liked two or more times

I always knew what was right, and liked it, and I always did what was wrong, and liked it--nearly always. [11]
He liked to think of George as the inheritor of such a place, as the son of a millionaire, as a "college graduate," as an influential man of affairs; he liked to imagine Amy as the wife of such another. [9]
But he liked them; liked that mad driving at twelve miles an hour, liked upsetting a driver or running down a pedestrian, and flying at full gallop through the Moscow streets. [2]
Beaton's devotion made the same sort of appeal; it was not so much that she liked him as she liked being the object of his admiration. [8]
Perhaps they liked the experience of change; perhaps both captain and pilot liked the pursuit of the ideal. [5]
The first time soap came here from the foreigners, nobody liked it; but as soon as it got to be fashionable, everybody liked it, and now everybody has it that can afford it. [5]
That is to say, if a man gets the habit of saying "I should have liked to have known more about it" instead of saying simply and sensibly, "I should have liked to know more about it," that man's disease is incurable. [5]
He liked its quaintness, the primitiveness of the farmer-fisherman neighbors, he liked the sea. [4]
I liked the old ways best, but I was getting so I liked the new ones, too, a little bit. [5]
These non-moral enforcers of justice--as they understood it liked Jack exactly as his friends in the New York clubs liked him--and perhaps the moral standard of approval of the one was as good as the other. [4]

More example sentences with the word liked in them

I always liked your writings, but you never did anything half so good as this last piece," and then to have to tell the blunderer that this last piece is n't yours, but t' other man's. [6]
Everybody liked the young fellow, for how could they help liking one of such engaging manners and large fortune? [5]
She liked the Young Doctor, as who did not who came in contact with him, except those who had fear of him, and who had an idea that he could read their minds as he read their bodies. [11]
If he liked you, there could be no mistake about it. [9]
I always liked you, Joe, and stood up for you, too. [5]
I knew that you meant all you urged upon me; that you liked me. [11]
I could like you as well as I liked Harris himself, sir. [5]
I hear that you are well liked by the best of company. [9]
This was audacity--and yet she liked it. [9]
If anything went wrong, I never wasted any time in telling him about it, and I guess it was one reason he liked me. [9]
Some of us would have liked to hear more about those letters in the divorce cases, but the Counsellor had to leave the table. [6]
Yet a cat would have liked that place. [5]
The modest fellow would have liked fame thrust upon him for some worthy achievement; it might be for a book, or for the skillful management of some great newspaper, or for some daring expedition like that of Lt. Strain or Dr. Kane. [5]
Satan said we would have a storm now, and an earthquake, if we liked, but we must stand off a piece, out of danger. [5]
He said he would give us any kind of fruit we liked, whether it was in season or not. [5]
And if you would be sorry for that, then you must have liked being here--with me. [10]
He liked my work, saw its defects, and was always frank about them, and I designed a good many gardens in connection with his houses. [9]
He liked words--big words, fine words, grand words, rumbling, thundering, reverberating words; with sense attaching if it could be got in without marring the sound, but not otherwise. [5]
Here stood a wooden bench on which Wilhelm liked to sit, watching the flight of his doves, gazing dreamily into the distance or, when inclined to artistic creation, listening to the melodies that echoed in his soul. [10]
I hope you won't mind my saying so, under the circumstances, but I've always rather liked you, admired you, even back in the Cambridge days. [9]
Father liked his wives from the original States; but I was born in Chicago. [11]
I liked being with the dead--liked being alone with them. [5]
When I was with people, they liked me; when I was away from them, I couldn't depend upon them. [11]
Then he said, with a wisdom that surprised him, for he would have liked to yield to the impulse of his curiosity: "Perhaps we'd better wait till Mrs. March comes down, and let things take the usual course. [8]
The Emperor Charles wished to know how she liked her new home. [10]
Goethe and Scott, whom he would have liked to look upon, were dead; Wellington he saw at Westminster Abbey, at the funeral of Wilberforce. [6]
Poor William Wetherell, who was quite overwhelmed by the fact that the great Mr. Duncan had actually read his letters and liked them, could scarcely utter a sensible word. [9]
Like all men who have grown up in society, Prince Andrew liked meeting someone there not of the conventional society stamp. [2]
He knew now where they were, and, if she liked, he could lead her by a way which would not take them through the gate. [10]
It is strange what a taste you suddenly have for things you never liked before. [4]
On Friday, I went to the Crystal Palace; it is a marvellous, stirring, bewildering sight--a mixture of a genii palace, and a mighty bazaar, but it is not much in my way; I liked the lecture better. [14]
Alice liked society well enough, she thought, but there was nothing exciting in that of Fallkill, nor anything novel in the attentions of the well-bred young gentlemen one met in it. [5]
I liked this well enough, and I whispered in her ear: "Tell me, Cousin Maud, are you not my real, true mother? [10]
So far as we heard, she was liked, admired, followed, envied. [4]
Xanthe liked to watch the stream disappear in the myrtle-grove. [10]
He knew he wasn't in any way fit for Sue, and he liked pears about as well as Jim Rickets. [9]
How glad she was that she still had the four drachmae which she had coaxed out of Karnis in the Xenodochium that evening; she could buy whatever she liked for her lover. [10]
But the party was small, her Majesty was very gracious and spoke to me often, and I saw that above all things she liked to be amused. [9]
To most it was only an incident in the afternoon round and drive, but everybody liked to go there, for it is one of the most charming of the moderate-sized villas. [4]
At first he was not friendly, but when he saw how much I liked his flowers he grew fond of me, and set me to work to tie wreaths and bunches, and to carry them to his customers. [10]
His good nature was inexhaustible, and though he liked to relate his own exploits, he had a little tact in adapting himself to the tastes of his hearers. [5]
The weed-grown garden was full of ripe tomatoes, and I ate them ravenously, though I had never liked them before. [5]
Martha, the eldest, was already a grown young lady, but so sweet and kind that we never feared a rebuff from her; and her friends, too, liked us little ones. [10]
In fact, it was after the simple strangers had left the government care that March feared their woes might begin; and he would have liked the government to follow each of them to his home, wherever he meant to fix it within our borders. [8]
There were not wanting some who liked the Professor better than the Autocrat. [6]
He liked to wander dreamily in lonely paths, with his large, dark eyes fixed on the ground. [10]
I liked his views so well that I should have been ready to adopt them as my own, if they had been challenged. [6]
Provisionally, she was very much what she liked to be. [8]
She is a very admirable young woman and you always liked her, but now suddenly you have got some notion or other in your head. [2]
What tedious and vapid things they read and liked to read! [4]
I liked Doctor Van Dyke's poem. [5]
He was more used to the rules of evidence than she was, and could not accept her positive conclusion so readily as she would have liked to have him. [6]
Belle Treherne, who up to that moment had never quite liked her, yielded to the agreeable charm of her conversation and her frank applausive remarks upon the costumes of the dancers. [11]
He did not understand them, yet he liked to listen, for they made him think of his dead father. [10]
They liked and trusted him--on a tacit condition. [9]
There were some trifles there--poor useless things--that she would have liked to take away; but that was impossible. [12]
Then we have tried for governor an illustrious Rough Rider, and we liked him so much in that great office that now we have made him Vice-President--not in order that that office shall give him distinction, but that he may confer distinction upon that office. [5]
The longer we traveled with them, and the more we got used to their ways, the better and better we liked them, and the gladder and gladder we was that we run across them. [5]
The further I traveled through the town the better I liked it. [5]
Because she liked too many of them. [6]
She not only tolerated him, but, wonderful to be said, plainly liked him. [9]
And when he told her he was studying for the ministry I could see that she liked him better than ever. [5]
Ruth only went to town twice a week to attend lectures, and the household was quite to Mr. Bolton's taste, for he liked the cheer of company and something going on evenings. [5]
He was frank, to the limit; he had opinions on all subjects; they were always on tap and ready for delivery, and he cared not a farthing whether his listener liked them or didn't. [5]
You never liked to take the responsibility of your own body; I don't see why you should want to have the charge of your own soul. [6]
Pierre had but to show a partiality for anything to get just what he liked done always. [2]
They all liked to see me practice, and they all came, for there was very little going on in our neighborhood to entertain a dog. [5]
It is safe to say that each of the Annexes world have liked to be asked the lover's last question by the very nice young man who had been a pleasant companion at the table and elsewhere to each of them. [6]
Evidently Speranski liked to rest after his labors and find amusement in a circle of friends, and his guests, understanding his wish, tried to enliven him and amuse themselves. [2]
Perhaps he wished to preserve one possible relic of the old life, perhaps he liked this touch of drama; or both. [11]
So she liked to pass through Lion Street in her walks, for it led her by his house. [10]
If they listened to him talk philosophy, encouraged him to do it, and told him they liked it, when the bargain was being made, the chances are the security is inadequate. [11]
The President liked to hear the Colonel talk, his voluble ease was a refreshment after the decorous dullness of men who only talked business and government, and everlastingly expounded their notions of justice and the distribution of patronage. [5]
He never liked to hear the bobolink sing, however, for he said it always reminded him of the whetting of a scythe, and that reminded him of spreading hay; and if there was anything he hated, it was spreading hay after the mowers. [4]
Should have liked to have introduced him to some of the Washington folks--some of the big men, although not many of 'em are here," Mr. Sutton ran on, not caring to notice the little points of light in Cynthia's eyes. [9]
Usually she liked to dress slowly, thinking meanwhile of many things which stirred her soul. [10]
The Arbusers liked to come to this place as early as possible to escape the society exactions of the city. [4]
He rather liked to be ordered about by the little tyrant. [4]
She liked Margaret to be high-minded, and was really not distressed by any good that was in her. [8]
But she liked to be confidential. [4]
Hadrian, who liked to be alone and undisturbed when observing the heavens, had preferred this erection--even after he had made himself known to the Alexandrians--to the great observatory of the Serapeum, from which a still broader horizon was visible. [10]
For the first time he actually liked Colfax. [9]
He had not thought of asking its value; indeed, only a connoisseur would have perceived it; and as the circlet was not showy and well became her beautiful arm, Barine liked to wear it. [10]
Somebody said that those who were accustomed to luxury at home liked Rodick's, and that those who were not grumbled. [4]
She realized that those noticing her liked her, and this observation helped to calm her. [2]
He liked Jethro, this man of rugged power whose word had become law in the state. [9]
Sometimes he liked this kind of speech. [9]
I liked not this fashion of speech, and when he saw that I was ill-pleased and grieved, instead of falling in with his merry mood, he took up a more earnest vein and said: "Never mind, Margery. [10]
He liked to think what he would do for that family--what luxuries he could procure for them, how they should travel and see the world. [4]
She liked to think that he was not a woman's man. [4]
He liked to think of her as Victoria; the name had no familiarity for him, but seemed rather to enhance the unattainable quality of her. [9]
I do not think I am betraying his confidence when I say that he is impressed with your ability, and that he liked your manner the only time he ever talked to you. [9]
He liked most things continental; he found his social pleasures in that polite Bohemia which indulges in midnight suppers and permits ladies to smoke cigarettes after dinner, which dines at rich men's tables and is hob-a- nob with Russian Counts, Persian Ministers, and German Barons. [11]
And he and they liked me, and respected my office; but as an animal, without birth or sham title, they looked down upon me--and were not particularly private about it, either. [5]
He believes that there's no subject so fascinating to the general average of people throughout the country as life in New York City; and he liked my notion of doing these things. [8]
Banks was already there to dress me, to congratulate me as discreetly as a well-trained servant should; nor did he remind me of the fact that he had offered to lend me money, for which omission I liked him the better. [9]
He had a theory that McCrae really liked him--would even sympathize with his solution; yet he procrastinated. [9]
She wondered how the young people there liked it, or whether there were any young people there; perhaps nobody was young and nobody was old, but they were like mummies all of them--what an idea --two mummies making love to each other! [6]
I have liked the young man, admired his talents, been anxious when he trifled with his life as if it were a paltry leaf, which is flung into the river. [10]
She rather liked the worst of them best: but she made him go down into the cellars and look at the furnaces; she exacted from him a rigid inquest of the plumbing. [8]

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