9 uses
- He realized that he was safe and only then did he appreciate the full enormity of what he might have incurred.2.4 — The Supercilious Sacrifice (73% in)
- She would not have appreciated the Japanese invasion.1.1 — Amory, Son of Beatrice (58% in)
- In the proper land and century he might have been a Richelieu—at present he was a very moral, very religious (if not particularly pious) clergyman, making a great mystery about pulling rusty wires, and appreciating life to the fullest, if not entirely enjoying it.1.1 — Amory, Son of Beatrice (64% in)
- "Joe's" was unaesthetic and faintly unsanitary, but a limitless charge account could be opened there, a convenience that Amory appreciated.1.2 — Spires and Gargoyles (22% in)
- She appreciated this.1.2 — Spires and Gargoyles (59% in)
- He talked of Greenwich Village now instead of "noon-swirled moons," and met winter muses, unacademic, and cloistered by Forty-second Street and Broadway, instead of the Shelleyan dream-children with whom he had regaled their expectant appreciation.1.3 — The Egotist Considers (58% in)
- Amory tried politely to appreciate them, and gave up laughingly.1.4 — Narcissus Off Duty (24% in)
- I honestly think that's all pretty much rot, though it seemed to give sentimental comfort to those at home; and may make fathers and mothers appreciate their children.1.4 — Narcissus Off Duty (99% in)
- Mackenzie, Chesterton, Galsworthy, Bennett, had sunk in his appreciation from sagacious, life-saturated geniuses to merely diverting contemporaries.2.2 — Experiments in Convalescence (47% in)
There are no more uses of "appreciate" in This Side of Paradise.
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