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The giggle fit continues, finally abated with a gratified sigh.

What gratified her was that critics and other novelists embraced her book with no idea as to who actually wrote it.

UPDATE: My sister checked in to say she read this post and to pronounce herself gratified that I opted for the Prada handbag.

Then, too, leaders can be flattered, rewarded, ego-gratified and tamed.

HarperCollins declined to give further details of the settlement, but said in a statement that it was "gratified."

Your covetous wish that you and your daughter should reign at Hartledon is on the point of being gratified.

Nancy, appearing much gratified thereby, saluted him cordially.

Was it right to fill this woman with romantic aspirations that could never be gratified?

Edna was not so consciously gratified at her husband's leaving home as she had been over the departure of her father.

He had never been invited into a woman's crypts before, and he hardly knew whether he were gratified or repelled.