ungratified

Example Sentences

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A fortune which would enable him to satisfy all desires and tastes hitherto ungratified?

From The Crooked Stick or Pollies's Probation by Boldrewood, Rolf

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)

Westover had covered herself with glory, and Dolly could go home tomorrow with not a wish ungratified.

From Dolly's College Experiences by Jones, Mabel Cronise

She had been much annoyed, she said, by the impertinent interrogations of gossiping people, who often insulted her by withholding their charity when they found their love of gossip ungratified.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. XX by Leighton, Alexander

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