All 45 Uses of
gratification
in
Little Dorrit
- This gentleman that I refer to, was presented to me, Mr Clennam, in a manner highly gratifying to my feelings, and conversed not only with great politeness, but with great—ahem—information.'†
Chpt 1.8
- He entrusted the nondescript with a confidential message to her, importing that the visitor who had waited on her father last night, begged the favour of a few words with her at her uncle's lodging; he obtained from the same source full directions to the house, which was very near; dismissed the nondescript gratified with half-a-crown; and having hastily refreshed himself at the coffee-shop, repaired with all speed to the clarionet-player's dwelling.†
Chpt 1.9
- Then it appeared that he was the son of a north-country blacksmith, and had originally been apprenticed by his widowed mother to a lock-maker; that he had 'struck out a few little things' at the lock-maker's, which had led to his being released from his indentures with a present, which present had enabled him to gratify his ardent wish to bind himself to a working engineer, under whom he had laboured hard, learned hard, and lived hard, seven years.†
Chpt 1.16
- I do this so conscientiously, that I am happy to tell you I find the most worthless of men to be the dearest old fellow too: and am in a condition to make the gratifying report, that there is much less difference than you are inclined to suppose between an honest man and a scoundrel.'†
Chpt 1.17
- And when he sat on Mrs Meagles's right hand, Mr Meagles looked as gratified as if his whole family were there.†
Chpt 1.17
- Their behaviour gratifies me.'†
Chpt 1.18
- Highly gratified by the kindness of his reception, Young John descended the staircase.†
Chpt 1.18
- I assure you I found him very well and in the best of Spirits, and he showed me even more than his usual kindness; being so very kind as to say that I was not a stranger there, and in all ways gratifying me very much.'†
Chpt 1.18
- Mr Merdle with humility expressed his conviction that Bishop couldn't mean him, and with inconsistency expressed his high gratification in Bishop's good opinion.†
Chpt 1.21
- That from the son set forth that Mr Clennam would, he knew, be gratified to hear that he had at length obtained permanent employment of a highly satisfactory nature, accompanied with every prospect of complete success in life; but that the temporary inability of his employer to pay him his arrears of salary to that date (in which condition said employer had appealed to that generous forbearance in which he trusted he should never be wanting towards a fellow-creature), combined with the…†
Chpt 1.22
- 'Doyce is highly gratified by your good opinion,' he opened the business by saying, 'and desires nothing so much as that you should examine the affairs of the Works for yourself, and entirely understand them.†
Chpt 1.23
- 'I am glad,' said Mr Rugg, challenging him specially in that character, 'to have the distinguished gratification of making your acquaintance, sir.†
Chpt 1.25
- It would be a poor thing to gratify a prejudice against him.†
Chpt 1.26
- He perfectly knew that the public could never have got him in, but he grimly gratified himself with the idea that the public kept him out.†
Chpt 1.26
- His healthy state of mind appeared even to derive a gratification from Clennam's position of embarrassment and isolation among the good company; and if Clennam had been in that condition with which Nobody was incessantly contending, he would have suspected it, and would have struggled with the suspicion as a meanness, even while he sat at the table.†
Chpt 1.26
- Then he asked her, in a voice of cheerful kindness, was there anything else that she would say to him as her friend and her father's friend, many years older than herself; was there any trust she would repose in him, any service she would ask of him, any little aid to her happiness that she could give him the lasting gratification of believing it was in his power to render?†
Chpt 1.28
- 'It's very gratifying, Arthur,' he said, 'after all, to look back upon.'†
Chpt 1.34
- "It's very gratifying," he said, often repeating the remark in the course of the evening.
Chpt 1.34 *gratifying = pleasurable
- Testimonials representing Mrs General as a prodigy of piety, learning, virtue, and gentility, were lavishly contributed from influential quarters; and one venerable archdeacon even shed tears in recording his testimony to her perfections (described to him by persons on whom he could rely), though he had never had the honour and moral gratification of setting eyes on Mrs General in all his life.†
Chpt 2.2
- Upon this the bosom bent to him; and its owner, with a wonderful command of feature, addressed a winning smile of adieu to the two sisters, as young ladies of fortune in whose favour she was much prepossessed, and whom she had never had the gratification of seeing before.†
Chpt 2.3
- It so evidently heightened his gratification that she often accompanied him afterwards, and the greatest delight of which the old man had shown himself susceptible since his ruin, arose out of these excursions, when he would carry a chair about for her from picture to picture, and stand behind it, in spite of all her remonstrances, silently presenting her to the noble Venetians.†
Chpt 2.5
- 'Under these circumstances,' said Mr Dorrit, 'I believe I express the sentiments of—ha—Mrs General, no less than my own, when I say that there is no objection, but—ha hum—quite the contrary—to your gratifying your desire, Amy.†
Chpt 2.5
- 'Except, my dear,' said Mr Dorrit, 'except—ha—as it afforded me unusual gratification to—hum—show by any means, however slight and worthless, the—ha, hum—high estimation in which, in—ha—common with the rest of the world, I hold so distinguished and princely a character as Mr Merdle's.'†
Chpt 2.7
- 'Unfortunately for the gratification of your unreasonable temper, you are not the master, Arthur.'†
Chpt 2.10
- An't it gratifying, Mr Pancks, though; really?'†
Chpt 2.13
- John Edward Nandy trotted away, much gratified, to comply with his daughter's request.†
Chpt 2.13
- Arthur, with less formality, expressed himself gratified by their high appreciation of so very slight an attention on his part; and explained as to the tea that he had not yet dined, and was going straight home to refresh after a long day's labour, or he would have readily accepted the hospitable offer.†
Chpt 2.13
- To Mr Sparkler, when Miss Fanny permitted him to appear, Mr Dorrit said, he would not disguise that the alliance Mr Sparkler did him the honour to propose was highly congenial to his feelings; both as being in unison with the spontaneous affections of his daughter Fanny, and as opening a family connection of a gratifying nature with Mr Merdle, the master spirit of the age.†
Chpt 2.15
- That was very gratifying to Mr Dorrit.†
Chpt 2.15
- 'To me,' observed Miss Fanny, 'they are excessively gratifying—inexpressibly so.†
Chpt 2.15
- The attention and distinction you have so impressively mentioned, Mrs General, as attaching to this confidence, are, I have no doubt, of the most complimentary and gratifying description; but they don't at all proceed from me.†
Chpt 2.15
- 'Amy, my dear,' said Mr Dorrit, taking her by the hand, 'this is the close of a day, that has—ha—greatly impressed and gratified me.'†
Chpt 2.15
- 'No,' said Mr Dorrit, 'no: I am not sensible of fatigue when it arises from an occasion so—hum—replete with gratification of the purest kind.'†
Chpt 2.15
- I therefore, my love, take the opportunity afforded by this gratifying and impressive occasion of—ha—solemnly remarking, that it is now a cherished wish and purpose of mine to see you—ha—eligibly (I repeat eligibly) married.'†
Chpt 2.15
- Permit me to express the—hum—sense, the high sense, I entertain of this—ha hum—highly gratifying act of attention.†
Chpt 2.16
- Mr Dorrit's gratification was such that he said—ha—he could not refrain from telling Mr Merdle verbally, as he had already done by letter, what honour and happiness he felt in this union of their families.†
Chpt 2.16
- 'It's not likely I well know,' said Flora, 'but it's possible and being possible when I had the gratification of reading in the papers that you had arrived from Italy and were going back I made up my mind to try it for you might come across him or hear something of him and if so what a blessing and relief to all!'†
Chpt 2.17
- Young John followed, smiling and much gratified.†
Chpt 2.18
- It would be a—ha—a gratification to me to send a little—hum—Testimonial, by such a trusty messenger, to be divided among—ha hum—them—them—according to their wants.†
Chpt 2.18
- In short, it was worth my while, for my own pleasure—the gratification of a strong feeling—to pay a spy who would fetch and carry for money.†
Chpt 2.20
- I say I did not resent it, nor did I; but I showed her, by not gratifying her, that I understood her.†
Chpt 2.21
- Mrs Clennam, who responded with a constrained grace to Mrs Finching's good nature in being there at all, though her visit (before Arthur's unexpected arrival) was undoubtedly an act of pure good nature and no self-gratification, intimated that all the house was open to her.†
Chpt 2.23
- 'My dear,' returned Mr Sparkler, rather gratified, 'I didn't know It would interest you, or I would have made a point of telling you.'†
Chpt 2.24
- Mrs Sparkler was in the full glow of her gratification, when a double knock was heard at the door.†
Chpt 2.24
- If you will put it in the fire with your own hand, just as it is, my fancy will be gratified.'†
Chpt 2.34
Definition:
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(gratification) great satisfaction (pleasure)