All 38 Uses of
appreciate
in
Main Street
- She had found one man in the prairie village who did not appreciate her picture of winding streets and arcades, but she had assembled the town council and dramatically defeated him.†
Chpt 1
- She was the one who could be depended upon to appreciate the Caruso phonograph record, and the Chinese lantern which Mr. Marbury had brought back as his present from San Francisco.†
Chpt 2
- The determination to be all one pretty flowerlet of appreciation leaked away.†
Chpt 4
- The Dawsons smiled their appreciation of listening to a savant.†
Chpt 4
- It's like this: I don't mind dealing with my men if they think they've got any grievances—though Lord knows what's come over workmen, nowadays—don't appreciate a good job.†
Chpt 4
- She appreciated the homely ease of village life.†
Chpt 5
- I don't believe you appreciate the honor, when you got into the Jolly Seventeen so easy!"†
Chpt 7
- "But sometimes," Raymie sighed, "there is a pair of dainty little shoes like these, and I set them aside for some one who will appreciate.†
Chpt 10
- Gosh, I wish I could appreciate that highbrow art stuff.†
Chpt 10
- Perhaps the best known of his plays was "The Merchant of Venice," having a beautiful love story and a fine appreciation of a woman's brains, which a woman's club, even those who did not care to commit themselves on the question of suffrage, ought to appreciate.†
Chpt 11
- Perhaps the best known of his plays was "The Merchant of Venice," having a beautiful love story and a fine appreciation of a woman's brains, which a woman's club, even those who did not care to commit themselves on the question of suffrage, ought to appreciate.†
Chpt 11
- …today, except for the advantages of the fine old Scotch kirk where he heard the Word of God preached more fearlessly than even in the finest big brick churches in the big and so-called advanced cities of today, but he did not have our educational advantages and Latin and the other treasures of the mind so richly strewn before the, alas, too ofttimes inattentive feet of our youth who do not always sufficiently appreciate the privileges freely granted to every American boy rich or poor.†
Chpt 11
- While she was listening to Mrs. Nodelquist's account of how many thousands of farmers' wives used the rest-room every year, and how much they "appreciated the kindness of the ladies in providing them with this lovely place, and all free," she thought, "Kindness nothing!†
Chpt 11
- The Dawsons glanced at each other in appreciation of the jest; and he chirped, "You're worse than Reverend Benlick!†
Chpt 11
- Trouble with you is, you don't make any effort to appreciate us.†
Chpt 14
- "But this is—this is—why, it's just a——Why, Vida, I thought you appreciated—well—appreciated art."†
Chpt 18
- "But this is—this is—why, it's just a——Why, Vida, I thought you appreciated—well—appreciated art."†
Chpt 18
- "need only the opportunity, to appreciate fine things," and "sturdy exponents of democracy."†
Chpt 18
- She alternately detested herself for not appreciating the kindly women, and detested them for their advice: lugubrious hints as to how much she would suffer in labor, details of baby-hygiene based on long experience and total misunderstanding, superstitious cautions about the things she must eat and read and look at in prenatal care for the baby's soul, and always a pest of simpering baby-talk.†
Chpt 20
- …cooked, but that wasn't the reason at all, it wasn't because I didn't think they were well cooked, I'm sure that everything in your house is always very dainty and nice, though I do think that Oscarina is careless about some things, she doesn't appreciate the big wages you pay her, and she is so cranky, all these Swedes are so cranky, I don't really see why you have a Swede, but——But that wasn't it, I didn't eat them not because I didn't think they weren't cooked proper, it was just—I…†
Chpt 20
- She recalled certain other women who had come from the Outside and had not appreciated Gopher Prairie.†
Chpt 21
- Folks ought to appreciate lovely things, but just the same, they got to be practical and—they got to look at things in a practical way.†
Chpt 21
- Then, smiling excessively, "Uh—don't you think Carol sometimes fails to appreciate Dr. Will's ability?"†
Chpt 21
- You always appreciate other people too much.†
Chpt 21
- With your permission, may we present you with a slight token of our regard and appreciation of your long service?†
Chpt 23
- The other day, in Washington, I was talking to a big scientific shark, a professor in Johns Hopkins medical school, and he was saying that no one has ever sufficiently appreciated the general practitioner and the sympathy and help he gives folks.†
Chpt 23
- You can't appreciate a man's work.†
Chpt 24 *
- Seems foolish to spend money when they wouldn't appreciate it."†
Chpt 24
- I know that you, of all people, are the one that can appreciate Dr. Will.†
Chpt 31
- But because I liked him, I know how sincere and pure and noble Will is, and his thoughts never straying from the path of rectitude, and——If I gave him up to you, at least you've got to appreciate him!†
Chpt 31
- She ran to Vida, kissed her forehead, comforted her with a murmur of dove-like sounds, sought to reassure her with worn and hastily assembled gifts of words: "Oh, I appreciate it so much," and "You are so fine and splendid," and "Let me assure you there isn't a thing to what you've heard," and "Oh, indeed, I do know how sincere Will is, and as you say, so—so sincere."†
Chpt 31
- She sat up, and took advantage of her victory: "I don't want to rub it in, but you can see for yourself now, this is all a result of your being so discontented and not appreciating the dear good people here.†
Chpt 31
- …hurry home, but I couldn't devote myself to my own selfish cares till I'd warned you, and heaven knows I don't expect any thanks for trying to warn the town against her, there's always so much evil in the world that folks simply won't see or appreciate your trying to safeguard them——And forcing herself in here to get in with you and Carrie, many 's the time I've seen her doing it, and, thank heaven, she was found out in time before she could do any more harm, it simply breaks my heart…†
Chpt 32
- I don't expect you to be passionate—not any more I don't—but I do expect you to appreciate my work.†
Chpt 33
- I've stood for your refusing to appreciate good fellows like Sam.†
Chpt 36
- Her countless friends who appreciate her splendid labors with the local Red Cross realize how valuable she will be to any war board with which she chooses to become connected.†
Chpt 36
- She glared back, defending her own, daring the world not to appreciate them.†
Chpt 38
- I guess I never appreciated how lucky I was to have a girl with imagination and lively feet to play with.†
Chpt 38
Definition:
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(appreciate as in: We hope our home will appreciate) to increase in value