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Sentences ending with pleasing

One sauce which was served us was a gastronomic symphony, the harmonies of which were new to me and pleasing. [6]
At high noon the scene is very lively, and even picturesque, for the ladies here dress for bathing with an intention of pleasing. [4]
The disorder is not so great as on the opera stage of San Carlo in Naples; and the effect is much more pleasing. [4]
The prospect was not pleasing. [4]
His appearance interested me, and his manner is very pleasing. [6]
It was a gray day, the country began to show the approach of autumn, and the view from the landing at Caldwell's, the head of the lake, was never more pleasing. [4]
To many this clothing of verdure is most restful and pleasing. [4]
The country about Burnsville is not only mildly picturesque, but very pleasing. [4]

Short sentences using pleasing

Both, however, are pleasing vegetables. [6]
This was a pleasing imagination. [4]

Sentences containing pleasing two or more times

They said--I mean the young doctors and students who had seen her--that she was pleasing, very pleasing to the eye. [10]

More example sentences with the word pleasing in them

Him he found, without seeking him, outside the room meant for Hadrian's sitting-room, to which, while the Emperor still slept, he was endeavoring, with the help of his assistants, to give a comfortable and pleasing aspect. [10]
Many times I wished that the charming anecdotes had not stopped with their happy climaxes, but had continued the pleasing history of the several benefactors and beneficiaries. [5]
I hope there will be something pretty and pleasing about her. [6]
It was a wild and ear-splitting tumult; to Melissa, however, neither painful nor pleasing, for the one idea, that she must speak with the great physician, silenced every other. [10]
The building is wholly of wood, reddish brown in tint, a very pleasing color. [5]
It brightened the white kerchief, and the bodice and skirt of a faint pink, throwing the face into a pleasing shadow where the hand curved over the forehead. [11]
Take the steamboat which I have just described, and you have her in her highest and finest, and most pleasing, and comfortable, and satisfactory estate. [5]
Who could tell whether her surprise, instead of pleasing him, might not rouse his anger? [10]
I wish you well, for a pride founded on self-respect is pleasing in mine eyes; but take heed lest pride degenerate into vainglory. [10]
No houses could well be in better harmony with their surroundings, or more pleasing to the eye, or more home-like and comfortable-looking. [5]
If there's any way of pleasing 'em I haven't yet discovered it. [9]
The lady who was thought to be most pleasing to the Emperor was invited to act as hostess. [2]
Matronly dignity was visible in every movement, and the charm of her manner lay, not in a youthful endeavor to be pleasing, but in the effort of age to please others, considering their wishes, and at the same time demanding consideration in return. [10]
I had a very sweet emotion of self-pity, which took the sting out of my painful discovery that the orchestra of my pleasing life-entertainment was unstringing its instruments, and the lights were being extinguished,--that the show was almost over. [6]
There was something very pleasing in the deference which was shown him. [6]
They have all very much the same general features, pleasing and displeasing. [6]
And so of various odors, which are pleasing to some persons and repulsive to others. [6]
Even the pleasing varieties of corporeal life cannot be represented by a system of mere proportions, much less those which are inner and spiritual. [10]
He did not usually give much heed to his dress, yet he was glad that the rain kept people in the house, for the outgrown wrap on his shoulders was by no means pleasing in appearance. [10]
There was with us a profound sense of loss and sorrow, due partly to the growing knowledge, not pleasing to our vanity, that Margaret could get on very well without us, that we were not necessary to her life. [4]
The motive that urged you to bestow them is pleasing in the sight of the Lord, I acknowledge; but as I said before, your charity was too paltry for you to be released from your pains because of it. [10]
Presently they came up with them, and found them seated on a bench, looking off upon Brigantine Island, a low sand dune with some houses and a few trees against the sky, the most pleasing object in view. [4]
I just spoke up in a quite natural way of pleasing surprise, and not as if I was dreaming of conveying information, and said, "Well, I do declare, if there isn't the dodo! [5]
These reckless songs, unless she was mistaken, had also been by no means pleasing to his Majesty. [10]
It is real, true love, pleasing to the Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, aye and to the merciful Virgin and all the saints who protect you, which has bound you and Herdegen together from your infancy. [10]
If one had to work, it must be a pleasure to work on things pleasing to the eye--such was her inference. [9]
It is pleasing to see how this theory is getting to be universally applied. [4]
It is pleasing to notice how much credit such men as Mavick obtain in the world by circumspect reticence and a knowing manner. [4]
And here we three meet again as exiles on one pretext or another, and you will notice that while we are absent there is a pleasing tranquillity in America--a building up of public confidence. [5]
We had never thought of her except as a pleasing and well-trained handmaiden, and here she was an accomplished young lady. [6]
On its walls thou canst behold pleasing paintings of the gods to whom thou hast devoted thy life, the most sacred chapters from the book of the dead, and many other beautiful pictures touching thine own life and character. [10]
In other years this pleasing office may have been all that was required of the holiday speaker. [6]
I turn from this less pleasing aspect of the common intelligence which renders such follies possible, to close the honorable record of the medical profession in this, our ancient Commonwealth. [3]
King had heard this lake compared with Como and Maggiore, and as a patriot he endeavored to think that its wild and sylvan loveliness was more pleasing than the romantic beauty of the Italian lakes. [4]
In all this there was a pleasing freedom--of course under proper chaperonage. [4]
The best of them were something of the following pattern, which is too often superseded of late by a more pretentious, but infinitely less pleasing kind of rustic architecture. [6]
Any punishment, even the severest, will be pleasing in his sight which you may inflict on those guilty of high-treason, for you wear the purple as his gift and in his name; those who insult you sin also against the god. [10]
Two pleasing dimples, the places for which were just marked when she came, played, shadowy, in her freshening cheeks when she smiled and nodded good-morning to me from the school-house-steps. [6]
I've tramped round the place, and, taking out a cottage or two, there isn't a picturesque or pleasing view anywhere. [4]
Behind us, on the opposite shore, set round about with a wealth of foliage, was the Castle of Rheinstein, a fortress more pleasing in its proportions and situation than any other. [4]
His eyes, in the mirror, did not meet mine, but were fixed, as on some distant and pleasing prospect, though there was, as always, a slight disdain at his mouth. [11]
He delights in the drum and the trumpet, and so willing is he to add to what is spectacular and pleasing in life that he would spend half his time in parading. [4]
In Dubbo, on the contrary, though the same congenial manners prevail, there is a pleasing degree of respectful familiarity which gives the town a homely comfort not often met with elsewhere. [5]
I cannot believe that the anchorites up yonder are peculiarly pleasing to the Lord because they live in solitude. [10]
It seems strange that a pleasing degree of three or four fingers of respectful familiarity should fill a man up and give him the panegyrics so bad. [5]
Fulkerson felt so sure of pleasing him with Dryfoos's message that he delivered it in full family council at the widow's. [8]
I will not stop to think whether the urgent request for an autograph by return post, in view of the possible contingencies which might render it the last one was ever to write, is pleasing or not. [6]
It offered a splendid, and at the same time a pleasing prospect to the ships which sailed by at its foot, for it stood, not a huge and solitary mass in the midst of the surrounding gardens, but in picturesque groups of various outline. [10]
What more pleasing spectacle than this in a world that has such a bad name for want and misery? [4]
We despise no source that can pay us a pleasing attention--there is no source that is humble enough for that. [5]
Yet"--the old man smiled, as though at some distant and pleasing prospect "the cause is a great one; it is great. [11]
The squibs and skits which he sometimes contributed to the New Orleans papers were bright, perhaps, and pleasing to his pilot associates, but they were without literary value. [5]
Nevertheless, certain frogs sing in a decidedly pleasing manner. [1]
By the time she was in the best chamber, the last sour curl had disappeared from her mouth; and indeed all was snug and seemly therein; Dame Giovanna being well-skilled in giving things a neat appearance, well pleasing to the eye. [10]
With fervent warmth she besought her to release her from this newly awakened nature, which surely could not be pleasing in the sight of Heaven, and let her once more become what she was before the unfortunate ramble in the moonlight. [10]
There is no scene, no picture, in the heroic times more pleasing than the meeting of Ulysses with this damsel on the wild seashore of Scheria, where the Wanderer had been tossed ashore by the tempest. [4]
Caesar's proposals could scarcely have been very pleasing to him, or why had he concealed till now what Caracalla was whispering to him in the adjoining room? [10]
To pray and sacrifice for him must be a pious deed, pleasing to the gods. [10]
And we were rewarded by one of those pleasing sights that go to make up the entertainment of travel. [4]
Out of these resplendent clothes they are much like other people; only they have a nobler spirit, that which leads them to endure hardships for the sake of pleasing others. [4]
The rooms were pretty well filled when he arrived and made his bow before the blazing, rustling, glistening, waving, blushing appearance under which palpitated, with the pleasing excitement of the magic scene over which its owner presided, the heart of Mrs. Clymer Ketchum. [6]
This frankness was pleasing, and soon the governor took Iberville into the drawing-room, where Jessica was. [11]
It expresses with pleasing vivacity that which I have sometimes heard uttered with malignant dulness. [6]
Mystery was not pleasing to Trafford. [11]
These displays, so pleasing to the people of her time and her new home, were by no means great or magnificent enough for Barbara. [10]
But it was pleasing to Sir Thomas Dale, who was a man to appreciate the high motives of Mr. Rolfe. [4]
There were results pleasing to me--possibly so to him. [5]
They exhibit a pleasing picture of a community almost exclusively agricultural, where no man has much time for words, in his search after things; of a community of great simplicity of manners, and of a manifest love of justice. [6]
There are no pleasing associations connected with the great common sewer of the Western America, which pours out its mud into the Mexican Gulf, polluting the clear blue sea for many miles beyond its mouth. [5]
It is a pity to destroy any pleasing story of the past, and especially to discharge our hard struggle for a foothold on this continent of the few elements of romance. [4]
It is a pity that we should have begun to talk of that barbarian rubbish; there are so many other subjects more pleasing and more cheering to the mind. [10]
After leaving the picturesque highlands about Lewiston, the country is flat, and although the view over the lovely sheet of blue water is always pleasing, there is something bleak even in summer in this vast level expanse from which the timber has been cut away. [4]
The face is open and pleasing and full of decision. [4]
It was just one of those artificially pleasing effects that so often pass with such as have little experience of life for the genuine expression of character and feeling. [6]
Nature had sent one cuckoo from her aviary to sing his double note for me, that I might not pass away from her pleasing show without once hearing the call so dear to the poets. [6]
This pleasing anticipation--that of traveling by lightning, and all being huddled together--is nothing to the promised universal illumination by a diffused light that shall make midnight as bright as noonday. [4]
In the course of their wide travels, they had found out that there are three sure ways of pleasing an author; they were now working the best of the three. [5]
He was fond of Stoddard, who was a facile and pleasing writer of poems and descriptive articles. [5]
This latter kind of selection is closely analogous to that which man unintentionally, yet effectually, brings to bear on his domesticated productions, when he preserves during a long period the most pleasing or useful individuals, without any wish to modify the breed. [1]
Built up conically of poles, with a hole in the top for the smoke to escape, and often set up a little from the ground on a timber foundation, they are as pleasing to the eye as a Chinese or Turkish dwelling. [4]
Even the shouting of my legions is pleasing to the ear and heart. [10]
This pleasing show of an external world through which thou art passing is given thee to interpret by the light which is in thee. [6]
It has the obvious advantages of being cool and comfortable, and in addition it is almost always made up in pleasing colors which cheer and do not depress. [5]
Paaker's gifts can no more be pleasing to the Celestials than a cask of attar of roses would please thee, haruspex, in which scorpions, centipedes, and venomous snakes were swimming. [10]
All the evening Nicholas paid attention to a blue-eyed, plump and pleasing little blonde, the wife of one of the provincial officials. [2]
His quiet animal nature acted as a pleasing anodyne to my recurring fits of anxiety, and I liked his frequent "'Deed I don't know, sir. [6]
What is the most pleasing thing thou hast seen? [11]
Light-colored clothing is more pleasing to the eye and enlivens the spirit. [5]
No other was more pleasing to her Heavenly Bridegroom, and she forbade herself in this hour to think of the only person for whose sake she would gladly have adorned herself. [10]
Our religious instruction might serve as a mirror of the opinions which were pleasing to the minister. [10]
This pleasing picture might perhaps leave some impression on the soul of the young criminal, in whom a preference for good could still, though rarely, be fanned to a flame. [10]
It occurred to me that there was a masquerade going on in the Tuileries, though I heard no music, except the tinkle of, it might be, a harp, or "the lascivious pleasing of a lute," and I walked along down towards the central pavilion. [4]
It may please;--it may be ingenious --brilliant, even; it may be the fashion of the day, and a fashion that will hold its power of pleasing for half a century, but it will be a fashion. [4]
Thus had my lord Cardinal commanded, and the work was so excellent that, if the Saint herself vouchsafed to look down on it out of Heaven, of a certainty it was pleasing in her eyes. [10]
But he ere long threw away his knife and came to be with us, and as he was well-disposed to Ann as being my friend, he did his best to make himself pleasing, or at least noteworthy in her sight. [10]
What if a lonely and unsistered creature Loved her own harmless gift of pleasing feature, Saying, unsaddened,--This shall soon be faded, And double-hued the shining tresses braided, And all the sunlight of the morning shaded? [6]
She succeeded at last, and laid down a five-dollar bill as if she were as used to the pleasing figure on its face as to the sight of her own five digits. [6]
The missionary we landed was the young father from Arichat, and in appearance the pleasing historical Jesuit. [4]
The Greeks formerly kept, and the Chinese now keep these insects in cages for the sake of their song, so that it must be pleasing to the ears of some men. [1]
In Matthew Arnold's judgment, she was "a pleasing figure. [5]

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