All 6 Uses of
gratification
in
Of Human Bondage
- He was able to gratify the passion for general knowledge which beset the headmaster; he had read all sorts of strange books beyond his years, and often Mr. Perkins, when a question was going round the room, would stop at Philip with a smile that filled the boy with rapture, and say: "Now, Carey, you tell them.'†
Chpt 15-16gratify = give pleasure or satisfaction
- Philip did not care that if she yielded to his desires it would only be the unwilling price she paid for the gratification of her wish.†
Chpt 61-62 *
- He longed for an opportunity to gratify the desire for selfsacrifice which consumed him.†
Chpt 71-72gratify = give pleasure or satisfaction
- He was ready for any compromise, prepared for more degrading humiliations still, if he could only gratify his desire.†
Chpt 77-78
- Because Mildred was indifferent to him he had thought her sexless; her anaemic appearance and thin lips, the body with its narrow hips and flat chest, the languor of her manner, carried out his supposition; and yet she was capable of sudden passions which made her willing to risk everything to gratify them.†
Chpt 77-78
- He was gratified because he seemed able to inspire his patients with confidence; and it was entertaining to watch the process of cure which at a hospital necessarily could be watched only at distant intervals.†
Chpt 115-116gratified = gave or received what was desired; or pleased
Definition:
great satisfaction (pleasure)