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Meanings of appear pleased in English

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Usage of appear pleased in English
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Charlotte did not appear pleased, but stopped in some of her preparations.
Jack / 1877
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He did not appear pleased at my making any allusion to medicine.
Six Years in the Prisons of England
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I was pleased with this determination, but not willing to appear pleased.
Confession; Or, The Blind Heart. A Domestic Story
4
She didn't appear pleased at my going up the first time.
The Lights and Shadows of Real Life
5
Miss Rogers did not appear pleased, and he was puzzled.
Four dukes and a devil
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Politeness obliges us to appear pleased with a man's works when he is present.
Boswell's Life of Johnson / Abridged and edited, with an introdu...
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The organist did not appear pleased at seeing her.
The Nebuly Coat
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Robert Black did not appear pleased by this precaution.
The Loudwater Mystery
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Lem looked through the mining reports in the cargo bay and tried his best to appear pleased.
Earth Unaware
10
He was about retiring to bed, after his supper, and did not appear pleased at being disturbed.
The Golden Grasshopper: A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresha...
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The Baillie will appear pleased at that, and will repeat the phrase, and then she will say "Dunderhead!"
A Mummer's Wife
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The bard did not appear pleased; in fact, he had been in an uncharacteristically grim mood since they fled the Greathall.
Assail
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She invited them in and tried to appear pleased at their visit, but Ned saw that she was under a great mental strain.
The Boy Scout Camera Club; Or, the Confession of a Photograph
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It has been always known that he who endeavours to please must appear pleased, and he who would not provoke rudeness must not practise it.
The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D. in Nine Volumes, Volume 03 / ...
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Most students and teachers appeared pleased and relieved with the paper.
The Irish Times
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Neither he nor his two highest-ranking deputy directors appeared pleased to see Conklin.
The bourne ultimatum
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Appear pleased across language varieties
United Kingdom
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