He mentioned this fact as if it afforded him a personal gratification.

But his intention in this provision is not for personal gratification-

The whole sordid business has had only one aim-somepersonal gratification.

Our main reason for eating flesh is that of personal gratification.

All its results were attended with circumstances of high personal gratification.

Moreover, I see you are posing for your own personal gratification.

What personal gratification do they surrender in order to do good?

Stevie did not seem to derive any personal gratification from what he had done.

Without this natural delicacy, love becomes a selfish personal gratification that soon degrades the character.

As I see it now, love-real love-doesnot lie in the personal gratification of selfish desires.

The taste had gone, the desire of the vengeance was extinct, personal gratification could not exist.

Mr. Carlyle was one who never hesitated to sacrifice personal gratification to friendship or to business.

Coffee would furnish only temporary and personal gratification.

But it's more than selfish personal gratification that continues to drive young scientists to publish here.

Then, sir, be a man, a noble man, and put your personal gratification below justice, honour, and gratitude.

They felt an especial and personal gratification in the fact that the ticket selected at Chicago bore his name.