All 23 Uses of
appreciate
in
Arrowsmith
- You don't appreciate but— Old man now.†
Chpt 1 *
- She sighed, in a huge loose script dashing all over the page: Perhaps we shall never see each other again but I do want you to know how much I prize all the talks we had together about science & ideals & education, etc. —I certainly appreciate them here when I listen to these stick in the muds going on, oh, it is too dreadful, about their automobiles & how much they have to pay their maids and so on & so forth.†
Chpt 6
- He was determined that he would not love it and, as he probably had no sense of humor whatever, it is doubtful whether he appreciated it, but its differentness aroused him.†
Chpt 6
- You remember you were saying how few girls there are in Mohalis that really appreciate—appreciate ideals.†
Chpt 6
- You remember you were saying how few girls there are in Mohalis that really appreciate—appreciate ideals.†
Chpt 6
- Why, the average well-to-do man appreciated attention!†
Chpt 8
- The minute he begins to see that other folks appreciate and reward your skill, that minute he must begin to feel your power and so to get well.†
Chpt 8
- Then began a series of experiments, very important, very undramatic-sounding, very long, and exceedingly unappreciated.†
Chpt 12 *
- While the other rickety cars of the village announced to the world, or at least to several square miles of the world, that Wheatsylvania was the "Wonder Town of Central N. D.," Martin's clattering Ford went bare; and when his enemy Norblom remarked, "I like to see a fellow have some public spirit and appreciate the place he gets his money outa," the citizenry nodded and spat, and began to question Martin's fame as a worker of miracles.†
Chpt 16
- My people pay me an excellent living wage, they appreciate my work, and they honor me by election to the schoolboard.†
Chpt 16
- You know, I mean all the crazy things I say in my lectures, but let us now forget being earnest, let us drink, let us sing 'Der Graf von Luxemburg,' let us detach exquisite girls from their escorts, let us discuss the joys of 'Die Meistersinger,' which only I appreciate!†
Chpt 17
- We'll find some big place where they'll appreciate your work.†
Chpt 18
- Ye-es, I suppose we did, but that doesn't mean we didn't appreciate you.†
Chpt 18
- I've gotten quite a lot of appreciation in my small way for some of these things that didn't hardly take me five minutes to dash off.†
Chpt 19
- He resisted, but they said in a high hurt manner, "Why, my boy, if you're going to be a public official, and if you have the slightest appreciation of their efforts to make you welcome here—"†
Chpt 20
- Believe me, she's a darling, and she did appreciate my spiel at the church, and if you think I'm going to sit up all night listening to you sneering at my work and my friends— I'm going to have a hot bath.†
Chpt 20
- Honestly, I can appreciate how you feel, and sympathize with you—I mean, of course, providin' you aren't ever going to see her again.†
Chpt 23
- Of all these forces Martin was more or less aware, and behind them he fancied that doubtful business men, sellers of impure ice-cream and milk, owners of unsanitary shops and dirty tenements, men who had always hated Pickerbaugh but who had feared to attack him because of his popularity, were gathering to destroy the entire Department of Public Health…… He appreciated Pickerbaugh in those days, and loved soldier-wise the Department.†
Chpt 24
- who combine presentable personalities with firstrate achievement, and if you'll just get over some of your abruptness and your unwillingness to appreciate big executives and charming women (because, thank God, you do wear your clothes well— when you take the trouble!†
Chpt 29
- It happened that he was, without Martin or Gottlieb ever understanding it, the most brilliant as well as the least pompous and therefore least appreciated warrior against epidemics that the world has known.†
Chpt 33
- It makes me tired to have you fall for his scientific tripe and not appreciate Stokes.†
Chpt 34
- He won a brief tolerance by explaining that he really had longed to kiss her good-night, that he did appreciate the basket of sandwiches which she had sent, and that he was about to remove pneumonia from the human race, a statement which he healthily doubted.†
Chpt 38
- What hurts is to think of old Roger—so gay, so strong, real Skull and Bones—and to have this abrupt Outsider from the tall grass sitting in his chair, failing to appreciate his Pol Roger— What Joyce ever saw in him!†
Chpt 39
Definitions:
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(appreciate as in: I appreciate your help.) to recognize the value or importance of
and/or:
to be grateful for
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(appreciate as in: We hope our home will appreciate) to increase in value