There was one gratification which Susan felt was needed for the restoration of her mind to its more healthy state, after she had passed through the whirling fever, when duty was as nothing, and anarchy reigned; a gratification that, somehow, was to be her last burst of unreasonableness; of which she knew and recognised pain as the sure consequence. She must see him once more,--herself unseen.英文原著 · 《Half a Life-Time Ago》
I could not stay at the West. It was never really home to me there, and my sojourn of six or seven years on the prairies only deepened my love and longing for the dear old State of Massachusetts. I came back in the summer of 1852, and the unwritten remainder of my sketch is chiefly that of a teacher's and writer's experience; regarding which latter I will add, for the gratification of those who have desired them, a few personal particulars.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
"We have been fools. So near the light all the time, and we never guessed it. Always buried in the past or future - systematically ignoring the present - and now it turns out that apart from the present we have no life at all."
"Thank Spadevil for it,,, she answered, more loudly than usual. Maskull looked at the man's dark, concrete form. "Spadevil, now I mean to follow you to the end. I can do nothing less."
The severe face showed no sign of gratification - not a muscle relaxed. "Watch that you don't lose your gift," he said gruffly. Tydomin spoke.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
"It may be a gratification to you, madam, to know that she has just returned to Pisa," continued the steward, politely; "and, moreover, that she is in a fair way to rise in the world. I have just engaged her to wait at the marquis's grand ball, and I need hardly say, under those circumstances, that if she plays her cards properly her fortune is made."英文原著 · 《AFTER DARK》
Chilton's laboratory, in Broadway, much to the gratification of the numerous visitors and anxious expectants for this most wonderful discovery. Chilton, Professor J. Mapes, Professor J. Draper. Professor S. Morse, all of this city; Mr. Cornelius, Dr. Goddard and others of Philadelphia; Mr.英文原著 · 《American Hand Book of the Daguerreotype》