The task ahead, he knew, would afford him considerable pleasure.

And besides, it furnished me seven times the pleasure afforded me by any of the others: 12 years of preparation & a years of writing.

I slept without dreaming, and in it regained a measure of the ease the night's pleasure had afforded.

What limited pleasures the series affords lie in appreciating the skill of various suspenseful setups and false alarms that precede the killer's inevitably anticlimactic rampage.

To find myself in the company of so many eminent, discerning and open-minded independent shopkeepers, affords me pleasure beyond expression.

"Thousand thousands of miles" are no obstacle, and kissing at a distance affords the same pleasure as when the lips actually meet.

But, while Harshaw enjoyed watching this unique animal develop into a mimicry copy of a human being, his pleasure afforded him no happiness.

The pleasures earthly things afford.

In between, all the pleasures afforded by a great train - reading, writing, solitude, socializing, good food and sound sleep.

He rose and with much feeling spoke as follows: "My dear boys, for you must allow me to call you so, I can hardly tell you how much pleasure your kind gift has afforded me.