"pleasure" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- Yeva inhaled the smells of flowers and burned cedarwood, a melancholy pleasure.
- Pacco studied his reflection and nodded with melancholy pleasure.
- On the way back they had the melancholy pleasure of setting off one more mine floating miles behind the sweepers.
- He at last knew wherein he had failed, and he derived melancholy pleasure from the knowledge.
- She had taken an important and melancholy pleasure in talking to the condolence callers.
- It would be a sort of melancholy pleasure to talk to him again, and what harm could it do?
- In a sense it was a dramatization of their loss, because all women, everywhere, take a melancholy pleasure in the display of their unhappiness.
- Aillas took a melancholy pleasure from sending arrow after arrow into a six-inch target; his skills had not deserted him.
- It is a melancholy pleasure to recall his traits.
- There might be a melancholy pleasure in seeing the inside of one of the old boats again.
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