enjoyments

How many bitter endurances, reflected from the bosom of the past, are ever mingling with all those ongoings of human life and action which we call enjoyments!

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 333, July 1843 Various

One of my greatest enjoyments is the othe guys I meet and hunt with.

Return of the Model 70 2008

Down there we are all contented; to us the feverish, everlasting chase after new pleasures and enjoyments is quite foreign.

Memoirs of an Arabian Princess 1907

From his own case, he argues to that of all, that the destruction of man's enjoyments is ascribable to sin.

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible 1871

The darling of my soul, the centre of all my wishes and enjoyments is no more!

The Coquette, or, The History of Eliza Wharton: A Novel Founded on Fact 1797

What they call their enjoyments, are generally momentary; and the object of sanguine expectation, when obtained, no longer continues to occupy the mind: a new passion succeeds, and the imagination, as before, is intent on a distant felicity.

An Essay on the History of Civil Society, Eighth Edition Adam Ferguson 1769

The greatest blessing, both in our employments and in our enjoyments, is to be kept from sin in them.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume III (Job to Song of Solomon) 1721

But the same idea operates with an opposite effect on the continuity of pleasure; and too much of our present enjoyments is obtained from the relief, or the comparison, of evil.

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206

He was for ever busy; and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and dejected mind.

Chapter 19 2010

He was for ever busy; and the only check to his enjoyments was my sorrowful and dejected mien.

Chapter 2 2010