ungratified

Example Sentences

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They had no want ungratified; to them the desert and what it contained were all-sufficing.

From A Vendetta of the Desert by Scully, W. C. (William Charles)

Dock's legs, Mr. Doggett's public reproof, and the ungratified longing in his stomach for melons, were still giving the boy trouble late Saturday afternoon, after the flight of Friday evening.

From The Tobacco Tiller A Tale of the Kentucky Tobacco Fields by Hackley, Sarah Bell

So Mr. Gage's yearning was still ungratified, and so he told himself, and his friend, Peckover, in no measured terms as he rampaged about the more secluded quarters of the demesne.

From A Poached Peerage by Magnay, William

I learned that Beethoven was most difficult of access, and would admit no pupil but Ries; and for a long time my anxiety to see him remained ungratified.

From Life Without and Life Within or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and poems. by Fuller, Margaret

No desire of his had ever been left ungratified.

From House of Torment A Tale of the Remarkable Adventures of Mr. John Commendone, Gentleman to King Phillip II of Spain at the English Court by Gull, Cyril Arthur Edward Ranger