ungratified

Example Sentences

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I am a lover of Nature," he writes at this time to a friend, "with an ungratified imagination.

From Heroes of Science Chemists by Muir, M. M. Pattison (Matthew Moncrieff Pattison)

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

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

Blanden assented unwillingly; he was full of ardent yearning for his betrothed; the wish to see her, to speak to her, being ungratified, became all the keener in him.

From Withered Leaves. Vol. I. (of III) A Novel by Gottschall, Rudolf von

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