All 20 Uses of
gratification
in
Bleak House
- As Ada said nothing, but looked at me, I said it must be very gratifying.†
Chpt 4-6 *
- "It IS gratifying," said Mrs. Jellyby.†
Chpt 4-6
- We murmured that it was very astonishing and very gratifying, or something to that effect.†
Chpt 7-9
- We had talked it over very often now, and there was some talk of gratifying the inclination of his childhood for the sea.†
Chpt 7-9
- Nor is the examination unlike many such model displays, both in respect of its eliciting nothing and of its being lengthy, for Mr. Guppy is sensible of his talent, and Mrs. Snagsby feels not only that it gratifies her inquisitive disposition, but that it lifts her husband's establishment higher up in the law.†
Chpt 19-21
- It is a source of much gratification to Mr. Guppy, therefore, to find the new-comer constantly poring over the papers in Jarndyce and Jarndyce, for he well knows that nothing but confusion and failure can come of that.†
Chpt 19-21
- Hence the gratifying fact that it has had no child born to it and that the complete little men and women whom it has produced have been observed to bear a likeness to old monkeys with something depressing on their minds.†
Chpt 19-21
- She gave me a gracious welcome to her domain and indicated, with much gratification and pride, its principal attractions.†
Chpt 22-24
- You have roused my curiosity, and now you must gratify it.†
Chpt 34-36
- Miss Flite looked at Charley for advice in this important crisis, who said, "If you please, ma'am, you had better tell then," and therein gratified Miss Flite beyond measure.†
Chpt 34-36
- He was animated and glowing, as if Ada's tenderness had gratified him; but I could only hope, with a sigh, that the letter might have some stronger effect upon his mind on re-perusal than it assuredly had then.†
Chpt 37-39
- Thank you—of calling here on my road from Lincolnshire to express my regret that any cause of complaint, however strong, that I may have against a gentleman who—who is known to you and has been your host, and to whom therefore I will make no farther reference, should have prevented you, still more ladies under your escort and charge, from seeing whatever little there may be to gratify a polite and refined taste at my house, Chesney Wold.†
Chpt 43-45
- Circumstances undoubtedly prevent my saying that it would afford me any gratification to hear that Mr. Boythorn had favoured my house with his presence, but those circumstances are confined to that gentleman himself and do not extend beyond him.†
Chpt 43-45
- Frame a wish and gratify it, my daughter.†
Chpt 49-51
- All the state coachmen in London seem plunged into mourning; and if that dead old man of the rusty garb be not beyond a taste in horseflesh (which appears impossible), it must be highly gratified this day.†
Chpt 52-54
- If Mercury should chance to be possessed by any lingering curiosity as to Mr. Bucket's letters, that wary person is not the man to gratify it.†
Chpt 52-54
- She had been to make a stately call upon the wards in Jarndyce, as she still called them, and had derived the highest gratification from that ceremony.†
Chpt 58-60
- Chairs having been placed for us by Mr. Guppy, Mr. Kenge expressed the surprise and gratification he felt at the unusual sight of Mr. Jarndyce in his office.†
Chpt 61-63
- Mr. Vholes was gratified, as a smaller practitioner striving to keep respectable, to be confirmed in any opinion of his own by such an authority.†
Chpt 61-63
- There was no trouble she would not have taken to have been of use to me, but I need hardly say that I only allowed her to take as little as gratified her kindness without tasking it.†
Chpt 64-65
Definition:
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(gratification) great satisfaction (pleasure)