I should not have liked to be there alone even in the broad daylight.
You would have got nothing out of her, for she would not have liked to tell you; but she told me all about it.
I liked Virgil ever so much better after this, and always tried to get at the tune of it, and of every other poem I read.
Because he liked her company better than he loved herself," said Kirsty.
Sergey Sergeyitch was religious, and liked solemnity and decorum.
Mihail Averyanitch liked and respected Andrey Yefimitch for his culture and the loftiness of his soul; he treated the other inhabitants of the town superciliously, as though they were his subordinates.
Here, through interest, he obtained the post of teacher in the district school, but could not get on with his colleagues, was not liked by the boys, and soon gave up the post.
The superintendent's little daughter Masha, whom he liked to meet in the hospital garden, for some reason ran away from him now when he went up with a smile to stroke her on the head.
Andrey Yefimitch liked Ivan Dmitritch's voice and his intelligent young face with its grimaces.
He did not read as rapidly and impulsively as Ivan Dmitritch had done in the past, but slowly and with concentration, often pausing over a passage which he liked or did not find intelligible.
By his lying, by his treacherous assault upon compassion, the individual had, as it were, defiled the charity which he liked to give to the poor with no misgivings in his heart.
He liked best of all works on history and philosophy; the only medical publication to which he subscribed was The Doctor, of which he always read the last pages first.
He likedto be waited on even when it was quite unnecessary.
It was a strange thing that Lois should be so rational and yet so musical--but she was, and that was one reason I liked her so much.
Diantha never quite liked him, but he won her mother's heart by frank praise of the girl and her ventures.
But in the early days of the war most of our young male workers joined up; whether we liked it or not we had to get the help of ladies, and our more enterprising leaders felt that after all there were some things in Y.
He liked to get the full value of his money, and was proud of boasting to his intimates that he kept the people who worked for him up to the top mark.
Although he was well aware that Madame de Léra had never likedor trusted him, he, on his side, had always admired and appreciated her serenity and simple dignity of demeanour.
He likedtheir rounded sentences, and caught their conventional phrases.
He kept copies of the letters he liked best, and was flattered to find that he was superior to his correspondents.
This was just one of the things that Watt likedto do.
The boys willingly agreed to help John, for they liked that sort of work, especially Bert, to whom it was new.
So the good-natured maid had her way, much to the delight of Bert and Freddie, who liked nothing so well as one of Dinah's homemade lunches.
Then Harry and Bert jumped up to start the phonograph, and that was like a band wagon to the little fellows, who liked to hear the popular tunes called off by the funny man in the big bright horn.
Everybody liked the ice cream soda, but it was plain Nellie and Sandy had not had such a treat in a long time.
Mrs. Bowring liked him and talked easily with him, but Clare was silent and seemed absent-minded.
She liked him for what she saw, and she hated him for what she knew.
I almost liked you yesterday when you thrashed the carter and tied him up so neatly.
In other words, she should have liked Brook if she had not had good cause to dislike him.
You haven't a standing order from Heaven to beliked by the whole human race, you know!
She had never even liked any man so much as she liked this man whom she hated.
But those were not the women whom her mother liked best, and Clare sometimes wondered whether the little grey cloud in her memory, which represented her father, might not be there to hide away something more human than an ideal.
Johnstone was puzzled, surprised, and a little hurt, but he attributed what she had said to his own roughness in telling her that he liked her, though he could not see that he had done anything so very terrible.
Only, when you said that you liked me, I thought you were in earnest, you know, and so I wanted to be quite honest, because I thought it was fairer.
I told Murchison that I saw he was the kind of a neighbor a man liked to have, and that it was kind of him to offer to get rid of Fluff, but that he mustn't do so just on our account.
I made up my mind several years ago to get rid of Fluff, but when I heard you were going to move into this house, I decided not to get rid of him until I knew whether you liked dogs or not.
He checked himself with a smile he would have liked to call a chuckle, but that yet held some inexplicable happiness at its heart.
Sidney likedthe last line so well that she paused to read it over, aloud.
She liked to hint of countless "affairs" which simply must not come to her mother's attention, assuring Sidney that she was absolutely the only one to whom she confided these deep intrigues.
Sidney did not know which she liked better, watching the gleaming marshes through which the highway wound or listening to Miss Letty's spasmodic conversation.
Vick liked being told she looked well-dressed, she worked hard enough to merit that distinction.
Vick liked what she called "smooth" men and Mr. Dugald was most certainly not that.
Joseph Romley had chosen it because he said it was so big a man could think in it; he liked the seclusion, too, that the surrounding wall promised.
We liked best a sort of thick cream which adheres to the shells, from which we scraped it with our spoons, and mixing it with the juice of the sugar-cane, we produced a delicious dish.
To accustom them to come to this shelter of themselves, we took care to fill their racks with the food they liked best, mingled with salt; and this we proposed to renew at intervals, till the habit of coming to their houses was fixed.
He, however, gave us leave to dispose as we liked of the ducks and geese, which were too noisy for him.
I should have liked to have had it alive to ornament our poultry-yard, and it was so young we might have tamed it; but Fritz's unerring aim had killed it at once.
The ducks and the flamingo liked it well enough, and were swimming comfortably in the muddy water; but the quadrupeds were complaining aloud, each in his own proper language, and making a frightful confusion of sounds.
The Indians would have liked to have gone ashore and made an effort to get in the rear of the wolf and had a shot at him, but this was at present out of the question.
Sam's characteristic comments were: "Man, but I would haveliked to have had a crack at that great leader!
It did not seem humanly possible for any one to go into the very midst of their besiegers encamped about the well, fill the canteens and return alive, but it was a gallant and splendid try, and she would have liked a memory of his grave face.
She rather thought, when the time came, she should prefer to go to Stanford, but she liked her music lessons, meanwhile.
How she had added to the livableness of life for him since the day she had gravely informed her mother that she believed she liked him better than her own father, that busy gentleman who had stayed so largely Down Town at The Office!
He liked clever women and he knew a lot of them, but he had been at some pains not to marry one.
It was due somewhat to good management as well as luck, and she liked having the results appreciated.
It was a matter of days only until she sought him out and told him, in her mother's presence, that she believed she liked him better than her first father.
Holroyd liked a nigger help because he would stand kicking--a habit with Holroyd--and did not pry into the machinery and try to learn the ways of it.
Fairly new, she was-- cigarettes--liked me because I was human and original.
She conceived herself being addressed as Mrs. Snooks by all the people she liked least, conceived the patronymic touched with a vague quality of insult.
And her fatherliked me because I seemed honestly eager to hear about stamps.
Yet Fanny and Helen would have liked a shop window or so in the English quarter if Miss Winchelsea's uncompromising hostility to all other English visitors had not rendered that district impossible.
When the ogre heard this extraordinary question he burst out laughing, and as he liked the youth's polite manners he said to him: 'Will you enter my service?
These prizes, together with presents from the lords and ladies of the court, who liked him for his pleasant ways, made Fortunatus feel quite a rich man.
Another splendid feast was prepared, and when the stranger had eaten and drunk as much as he was able, and had taken his departure, the king asked Cannetella how she liked him.
While the prince gazed at them in surprise, not knowing which he liked best, the girls began to lift their eyes and smile at him.
Mrs. Martin added, and then Trouble laughed, for he likedto help Nora bake.
He liked to hear me talk about the ocean, and I guess he must have been thinking about it more than I had any idea of.
Trouble liked nothing better than this, and he was soon sitting on the soft, green grass, pulling bits and tossing them in the air like a shower.
Nicknack seemed a little frightened when the boat tipped and rocked, but Ted patted him and fed him more grass, which Nicknack liked very much.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "liked" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
