be displeased by
Example Sentences
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Depart again in the morning, if you will: we shall neither of us be displeased by then to say farewell, I dare say.
From Henry Brocken His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange, Scarce-Imaginable Regions of Romance by De la Mare, Walter
On sending to Mr. Hallam a copy of the Review in which it appeared, I expressed my hope that he would not be displeased by what I had done.
From Spare Hours by Brown, John
Superstition had not utterly extinguished all national feeling in his mind; and he could not but be displeased by the malevolence with which his Celtic supporters regarded the race from which he sprang.
From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron
Your Majesty, therefore, need have no further anxiety about my journey, and must not be displeased by it.
From Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day by Gregorovius, Ferdinand
If any be displeased by the result, I can but submit that my verses are my own, and that this is how I would have them read.
From Poems by Henley, William Ernest
