All 8 Uses of
gratification
in
Wuthering Heights
- 'Heathcliff, you may come forward,' cried Mr. Hindley, enjoying his discomfiture, and gratified to see what a forbidding young blackguard he would be compelled to present himself.†
Chpt 7
- Catherine and he were constant companions still at his seasons of respite from labour; but he had ceased to express his fondness for her in words, and recoiled with angry suspicion from her girlish caresses, as if conscious there could be no gratification in lavishing such marks of affection on him.†
Chpt 8
- Linton, recalling old times, would have me give you a cordial reception; and, of course, I am gratified when anything occurs to please her.'†
Chpt 10 *
- If she desired to go, she might: the nuisance of her presence outweighs the gratification to be derived from tormenting her!'†
Chpt 14
- In HIS case, I was gratified; and, ignoble as it seems to insult a fallen enemy, I couldn't miss this chance of sticking in a dart: his weakness was the only time when I could taste the delight of paying wrong for wrong.'†
Chpt 17
- He maintained a hard, careless deportment, indicative of neither joy nor sorrow: if anything, it expressed a flinty gratification at a piece of difficult work successfully executed.†
Chpt 17
- Catherine perceived, as well as I did, that he held it rather a punishment, than a gratification, to endure our company; and she made no scruple of proposing, presently, to depart.†
Chpt 26
- She didn't thank him; still, he felt gratified that she had accepted his assistance, and ventured to stand behind as she examined them, and even to stoop and point out what struck his fancy in certain old pictures which they contained; nor was he daunted by the saucy style in which she jerked the page from his finger: he contented himself with going a bit farther back and looking at her instead of the book.†
Chpt 30
Definition:
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(gratification) great satisfaction (pleasure)