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Sentences starting with pleasures

Pleasures smile along every path, and I like my profession of soldier, but it often grieves me sorely to hear so little from home. [10]
Pleasures to be enjoyed, or pains to be endured, after we shall be dead and gone are but little regarded even in our own cases, and much less in the cases of others. [7]

Sentences ending with pleasures

That is, what you men are pleased to call pleasures. [9]
I cannot help wondering now where we found time for all these summer pleasures. [10]
Just then Julie, who by the death of her brothers had become one of the richest heiresses in Moscow, was in the full whirl of society pleasures. [2]
In this desert the old man thought that his darling could not be touched by the world and its pleasures. [10]
She also felt the necessity--a necessity totally unknown to such a nature as Carmen's--of making compensation, of compounding for her pleasures. [4]
He shuddered for the first time in a quick realization of how nearly it came to being all over with life and its pleasures. [4]
What were their pleasures? [11]
They had imitations of pleasures. [11]
I rejoice in my gladsome little maiden who will enjoy life with me, and all its pleasures! [10]
How far in most cases they actually sympathise in the pains and pleasures of others, is more doubtful, especially with respect to pleasures. [1]

More example sentences with the word pleasures in them

And not many years after the time of which I now write Lord Carlisle was paying fifteen hundred a year on the sum he had loaned him, cheerfully denying himself the pleasures of London as a consequence. [9]
It must have worn a different aspect to Ruth, for she entered into its pleasures at first with curiosity, and then with interest and finally with a kind of staid abandon that no one would have deemed possible for her. [5]
Every morning we woke to fresh pleasures, and every evening closed a spring festal day, radiant with the sunlight of liberty and the magic of friendship. [10]
Whoever can saunter, with lukewarm blood and lukewarm pleasures, from one decade to another in peace and honor, is fortunate. [10]
These verbal battles were one of the greatest pleasures of the Alexandrians, and they greeted every clever turn of speech with shouts of applause, every word which displeased them with groans, hisses, and cat-calls. [10]
With all their wealth and opportunities, it seems to him that these select people have no higher object than the pleasures of the senses, and he is taught daily by reiterated example that this is the end and aim of life. [4]
But how can we feel sure that an old dog with an excellent memory and some power of imagination, as shewn by his dreams, never reflects on his past pleasures or pains in the chase? [1]
In like manner we are led to participate in the pleasures of others. [1]
Yet the time was not without its undertone of anxieties, of grave perils that seemed to sanctify it and heighten its pleasures of hope. [4]
In Paris there was at first no lack of pleasures of every description, especially as they met among the king's mercenaries many a dissolute Swiss knight and man at arms. [10]
The handsome rake's unlimited dissipations were severely checked by his sufferings, but not altogether prevented, and on his return to Rome he continued to indulge in all the pleasures of life. [10]
That of the twins--they are ten years old--will soon be over--and now, after enjoying pleasures not one of which was bestowed on me, they must endure the same sorrow. [10]
She looked forward to this with such firm hope as filled me with fears, when I minded me of my brother's letters, in which he never had aught to tell of but vain pleasures and pastimes. [10]
He is open to the convincing pleasures of the simple and unadorned life; he is satisfied with simple people. [11]
He goes on to say that the present "demands of the drama pleasures and emotions that can no longer be supplied by the inanimate representation of a world that has ceased to exist. [4]
The wits used to say that Ropers,--the poet once before referred to, old Samuel Ropers, author of the Pleasures of Memory and giver of famous breakfasts,--was accustomed to have straw laid before the house whenever he had just given birth to a couplet. [6]
It was wise to sacrifice the transitory pleasures of earth to loftier purposes. [10]
It is easy to repent when our pleasures have palled. [11]
I should like to know how many young men of wealth and family would give up the pleasures of a London season were there not a strong attraction in Maryland. [9]
The Egyptians hoped to be permitted to enjoy these pleasures even in the other world. [10]
He was a thoroughly good-hearted being who could not bear to hurt any one, and who found it equally hard to disturb a fellow-man in his pleasures or amusement. [10]
Think of her; think of all the sorrows and afflictions you have shared together; of all the trials, and all the peaceful pleasures, you have jointly known. [12]
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]
More than that, they have lost the power of the enjoyment of the essential pleasures of life. [4]
The impression of these photographs is that these people abandon themselves soberly to the pleasures of the sea and of this packed, gregarious life, and get solid enjoyment out of their recreation. [4]
He would throw them all away, someday, and go back to the lurid pleasures of hunting men, and being hunted himself by the British. [5]
These people take their pleasures more gravely than we do, and probably will last the longer for their moderation. [4]
When he sees the value the intelligent and the well-to-do set upon material things, and their small regard for intellectual things and the pleasures of the mind, why should he not most passionately desire those things which his more fortunate neighbors put foremost? [4]
Thus, by degrees, the temple of the idol of Sinope degenerated into a stronghold of deceit and bloodshed, of the basest superstition, the pleasures of the flesh, and abominations that cried to Heaven. [10]
It is not the sight of a Peter Cooper and his wealth that discontents him, nor the intellectual pursuits of the scholar who uses the leisure his fortune gives him for the higher pleasures of the mind. [4]
And one of the pure pleasures I promise myself in the months to come is to make you two gentlemen know each other. [6]
The pleasures of the palate are among the last gratifications of the senses allowed them. [6]
More and more the old man finds his pleasures in memory, as the present becomes unreal and dreamlike, and the vista of his earthly future narrows and closes in upon him. [6]
A walk in the moonlight has pleasures, I own, But it is n't quite safe to be walking alone; So I take a lad's arm,--just for safety, you know, But Aunt Tabitha tells me they didn't do so. [6]
We collected within the limits of this bit of earth everything which can delight the senses; not a single one is omitted in this narrow space, whose crowded maze of pleasures fairly impede freedom of movement. [10]
They hope that the folly over which they waste so many hours will smooth their way to the fields of the blest, and yet they themselves close the road by the pleasures they indulge in. [10]
He thought of the delightful years during which his face had grown so round, and every day fresh pleasures and spectacles, such as the world would never again witness, had satiated eye and ear, palate and nostril,--nay, even curiosity. [10]
Their autocrat prefers the deep pleasures of these occupations, either well paid or ill paid, to any others in the market, at any price. [5]
The simple pleasures, the confidences, the intimacies of home life surrounded him. [4]
He was at that time far beyond the span of life usually allotted to man, and what I heard him say was hardly worth retaining, for it related to the pleasures of the table, ladies' toilettes, court gossip, etc. [10]
He was certain that the seed he had sown in her mind would take root; she could now clearly picture to herself what pleasures she would enjoy as empress, and from what she could preserve others. [10]
It is true that the larger life has pleasures and expanding capacities; but it is truer still that it has perils, events which try the soul as it is never tried in the smaller life--unless, indeed, the soul be that of the Epicurean. [11]
He said that Thackeray described men from the inside, as it were; through his strong power of dramatic sympathy, he identified himself with certain characters, felt their temptations, entered into their pleasures, etc. [14]
It is a still more curious fact that these birds apparently evince some sympathy for the pleasures of their fellows. [1]
They liked better staying there than wandering about in the evening with their parents, whose excursions seemed to them somewhat aimless, and their pleasures insipid. [8]
She shall have some of the pleasures of life--see cities and people. [13]
Another of Sydney's social pleasures is the visit to the Admiralty House; which is nobly situated on high ground overlooking the water. [5]
There in Moscow she was deprived of her greatest pleasures--talks with the pilgrims and the solitude which refreshed her at Bald Hills--and she had none of the advantages and pleasures of city life. [2]
To do something, say something, see something, before any body else--these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. [5]
He was not rich, but would spend his last groat to be better dressed than others, and would rather deprive himself of many pleasures than allow himself to be seen in a shabby equipage or appear in the streets of Petersburg in an old uniform. [2]
When, in her quiet home life, the monotony of her days oppressed her more heavily, she often remembered Ems, and the pleasures and attention which the next summer there would bring tier. [10]
And it so proved that it called for much patience and long endurance to carry through the duties, say rather the kind offices, the painful pleasures, which she had chosen as her share in the household where accident had thrown her. [6]
These are pure pleasures, enjoyed because they are rare. [4]
At your best pleasures, either to return unto the colony, or pray for the success of it heere. [4]
Whatever were the pleasures of Tattershall, they could not long content the restless Smith, who soon set out again for the Netherlands in search of adventures. [4]
There are few pleasures in life equal to that of riding on the box-seat of a stagecoach, through a country unknown to you and hearing the driver talk about his horses. [4]
And what varied pleasures awaited us there! [10]
Since death robbed our sovereign lord of his wife, and the gout has prevented his enjoyment of the chief pleasures of life--hunting, the tournament, and the other pastimes which people of our rank usually pursue--in what can he find diversion? [10]
The best of our social pleasures, if carried beyond the natural power of physical and mental endurance, begin to approach the character of such a penance. [6]
I think we ought all--to share our pleasures with others, and do what we can to make each other happy, do not you? [5]
The months dragged on, all hope forsook the old man, he ceased from his customary pursuits and pleasures, he devoted himself to pious works, and longed for the deliverance of death. [5]
When Cicero writes of the pleasures of old age, that of agriculture is chief among them: "Venio nunc ad voluptates agricolarum, quibus ego incredibiliter delector: quae nec ulla impediuntur senectute, et mihi ad sapientis vitam proxime videntur accedere. [4]
But the thought of the pleasures at Upper Marlboro' and the hope of overtaking the party at Mr. Dorsey's place, over the Patuxent, where they looked to dine, decided me in pushing on. [9]
Toward the close of that memorable day Mr. and Mrs. Alonzo Fitz Clarence were buried in sweet converse concerning the pleasures of their several bridal tours, when suddenly the young wife exclaimed: "Oh, Lonny, I forgot! [5]
But the pleasures of inventive composition were forced to give way to scientific labors, and when I was once more at leisure to try my wings with increase of power I felt more strongly urged to other flights. [10]
But the lives of gentlemen devoted to such pleasures as Richard Swiveller, are extremely precarious. [12]
We often had occasion to pity Americans whom we found traveling drearily among strangers with no friends to exchange pains and pleasures with. [5]
As things are now, when in youth a dollar would bring a hundred pleasures, you can't have it. [5]
But he had not time even to see his own family, for his younger and richer comrades, who wanted to enjoy the pleasures of the city, had put upon him no small share of their own duties. [10]
Why should he not love her now, and even marry her, Rostov thought, but just now there were so many other pleasures and interests before him! [2]
And I will not be a drag on your pleasures, Richard, or stand in the way of your prospects. [9]
There is certainly no sort of evidence that he engaged in the common dissipation of the town, nor gave himself up to those pleasures which a man rescued from the hardships of captivity in Tartaria might be expected to seek. [4]
These visits of Natasha's at night before the count returned from his club were one of the greatest pleasures of both mother, and daughter. [2]
He mentioned many names, some remembered, some forgotten, like his own; dwelt on pleasures and customs gone by forever. [9]
If I take my own way in the pleasures of life, why should I not take it in the duties and the business of life? [11]
A visit to my grandmother in Dresden, and many pleasures which I was permitted to share with my brothers and sisters, seemed to me like the respite before execution. [10]
I have opened my eyes to a good many neglected privileges and pleasures within my reach, and requiring only a little courage to enjoy them. [6]
One of the minor pleasures of life is that of controlling vegetable activity and aggressions with the pruning-knife. [4]
The town offered me few attractions, but the country was full of pleasures. [10]
Blame her who may, the world was a very splendid vision as it opened before her eyes in its long vista of pleasures and of triumphs. [6]
Come, now, and make thee ready for the pleasures of the day. [5]
Was her husband's love no longer sufficient to replace the many pleasures she had sacrificed?--No! [10]
You yourself--oh, my lord, you who have tasted all the pleasures of this world, could you then have the heart to steal from one who has so little that little which gives her happiness? [11]
But there was little time for these pleasures, which weighed upon her like duties. [4]
Third in the list of special pleasures is the tour of the harbor in a fine steam pleasure-launch. [5]
The Joy of Life, that streaming through their Veins Tumultuous swept, falls slack--and wanes The Glory in the Eye--and one by one Life's Pleasures perish and make place for Pains. [5]
The weeks before Lent presently came upon us; Ann, however, would take part in no pleasures, albeit she was now a welcome guest, since her step-father was a member of the worshipful council. [10]
Scarcely was the last fruit gathered, when other pleasures greeted us. [10]
Out of sheer joy in those intoxicating pleasures, and for the sake of the manifold demands that came upon us in these over-busy days, we forgot those nearest and dearest to our hearts. [10]
To Margaret, with its languidly moving pleasures, its well-bred scenery, the luxury that lulled the senses into oblivion of the vulgar struggle and anxiety which ordinarily attend life, it was little less than paradise. [4]
Cleopatra goes to it whenever she longs for repose after the pursuit of pleasures which have lost their zest. [10]
But the game is caught; and I believe it is true that with the catching end the pleasures of the chase. [7]
He went out into the world and sought out the pleasures that youth delights in. [5]
And the annoyances imposed upon me by a certain fame I have achieved had become such that some months ago I began to crave the pleasures of the life of a private man. [9]
Who can wonder, if, when at last they gain their liberty, they plunge into the pleasures of life with a tenfold eagerness? [10]
Among the pleasures I had promised myself was that of a visit to Tennyson, at the Isle of Wight. [6]
Even on the hunting excursions into the Libyan desert which the Emperor frequently made, Antinous remained apathetic and indifferent to the pleasures of the sport to which he had formerly devoted himself with enjoyment and skill. [10]
Why, in all his songs there is not one word about the pleasures of the table! [10]
He had kept his side of the gulf, but gloating on this touch between the old luxurious, indulgent life, with its refined vices, and this present coarse, hard life, where pleasures were few and gross. [11]
In addition to his local pleasures and annoyances, he is in a manner compelled to be a sharer in the universal uneasiness. [4]

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