take satisfaction

And Felix, standing there and meditating, had the apparent brutality to take satisfaction in her tears.

Such can not fail to take satisfaction in the clear presentation of the case by Mr. Coler.

The sermon mortified them, and they resolved to take satisfaction for the pretended and supposed insult.

Each was a tried Green Mountain Boy and eager to take satisfaction for the attack upon their leader.

Old Nick Hargus and his son had it in their power at last to take satisfaction for the humiliation to which he had bent them.