1 She was a great favorite with her mates, being good-tempered and possessing the happy art of pleasing without effort.
2 Her friends repeated the pleasing phrase enthusiastically, and for several minutes she stood, like a jackdaw in the fable, enjoying her borrowed plumes, while the rest chattered like a party of magpies.
3 The lobster was instantly surrounded by a halo of pleasing reminiscences, and curiosity about 'the charming young ladies' diverted his mind from the comical mishap.'
4 In the hope of pleasing everyone, she took everyone's advice, and like the old man and his donkey in the fable suited nobody.
5 He never spoke of himself, and in a conversation with Miss Norton divulged the pleasing fact.
6 Jo glanced at the sheet and saw a pleasing illustration composed of a lunatic, a corpse, a villain, and a viper.
7 A pleasing fiction, by the way, for Jo had no more idea of music than a grasshopper.
8 I have studied how best to mortify in them the worldly sentiment of pride; and, only the other day, I had a pleasing proof of my success.
9 At Lowood, indeed, I took that resolution, kept it, and succeeded in pleasing; but with Mrs. Reed, I remember my best was always spurned with scorn.
10 No feature in the scene was extraordinary, but all was pleasing.
11 As she grew up, a sound English education corrected in a great measure her French defects; and when she left school, I found in her a pleasing and obliging companion: docile, good-tempered, and well-principled.
12 But I can assure you," she added, "that Lizzy does not lose much by not suiting his fancy; for he is a most disagreeable, horrid man, not at all worth pleasing.
13 But they are very pleasing women when you converse with them.
14 Her performance was pleasing, though by no means capital.
15 His anxiety for Jane was evident, and his attentions to herself most pleasing, and they prevented her feeling herself so much an intruder as she believed she was considered by the others.