ungratified
Example Sentences
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We must not expect that we shall be able to convince women that the marks their children may bear have no analogy with ungratified longings.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
I am a lover of Nature," he writes at this time to a friend, "with an ungratified imagination.
From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)
The explanation of his act lay in the hot-blooded temperament of a thoroughly spoiled and indulged man, whose first ungratified wish robs him of his senses--the excuse of his act lay nowhere.
From Felix Lanzberg's Expiation by Schubin, Ossip
Eric worships you, he lives only in your looks, and will leave no wish of yours ungratified, showering upon you everything that wealth can give.
From 'Clear the Track' A Story of To-day by Elisabeth Buerstenbinder (AKA E. Werner)
The natural desires ungratified, the laughter suppressed, the logic brow-beaten by authority, the humor frozen by fear—of many generations—were in this child, a child destined to rend and wreck the prison's walls.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 12 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green
