be displeased by

Example Sentences

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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

In order that you may not be displeased by any further unavoidable correspondence between me and Colonel Osborne, I have written to him a note, which I now send to you.

From He Knew He Was Right by Trollope, Anthony

I have already had reason to say that Isabel knew her husband to be displeased by the continuance of Ralph's visit to Rome.

From The Portrait of a Lady — Volume 2 by James, Henry

Dom Geronimo, who lost no word of the interview, seemed to be displeased by Mowbray’s adroit distinction between the occupant of the throne and a prince of the royal blood.

From The Great Mogul by Tracy, Louis

"Will you promise me, then," said Amadour, "that you will not be displeased by what I wish to tell you, nor yet alarmed at it, until you have heard me to the end?"

From The Tales Of The Heptameron, Vol. II. (of V.) by Saintsbury, George