ungratified

Example Sentences

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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)

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)

You need not; there is nothing more difficult than to remain unselfish, which is just another word for "sweet and good," if one never knows what it is to have a wish ungratified.

From Christmas Tree Land by Molesworth, Mrs. (Mary Louisa)

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

The other was a now half-forgotten ungratified wish—the wish to find the youngster who had done him such service twelve years before.

From The Outspan Tales of South Africa by Fitzpatrick, Percy, Sir