"Dissatisfy" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... Latin in the University of London, probably without much hope of satisfying himself, and certain to dissatisfy every one who could read, or pretend to read, the original, did nevertheless complete and publish a translation of the "Iliad." And now, unmindful of Bentley's dictum, that no man was ever written down but by himself, he has published an answer to Mr. Arnold's criticism of his work. ...
— The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 09, No. 51, January, 1862 • Various
... Arab Sheik, loudest in importunity, he said: "What has happened since yesterday to dissatisfy ...
— The Prince of India - Or - Why Constantinople Fell - Volume 2 • Lew. Wallace
... from the other side of the Seine, or of the lake of Geneva; from the Marche aux Fleurs, or the Valley of Chamouni; from the parapets of the apse, or the crags of the Montagne de la Cote: but there are intermediate distances which dissatisfy us in either case, and from which one is in haste either to advance or ...
— The Stones of Venice, Volume I (of 3) • John Ruskin
... each said and they each read. The basket that did not remain on the floor was not empty when all that was thrown away was put in it. The alarming way that each one did not throw away what was taken away did not dissatisfy every one. There ...
— Matisse Picasso and Gertrude Stein - With Two Shorter Stories • Gertrude Stein
... reckons, besides those left behind, eighty-nine men-of-war, and twenty-five ships, though we cannot hear that they have with them above eighteen. The French are not yet joined with the Dutch, which do dissatisfy the Hollanders, and if they should have a defeat, will undo De Witt; the people generally of Holland do hate this league ...
— The Diary of Samuel Pepys • Samuel Pepys |
