To the king's intense gratification my ointment cured the condition within the three days that I had promised, and my already considerable reputation as a physician was enhanced.

To his surprise and intense gratification, Maureen had agreed to marry him.

To my intense gratification, his figure stopped, turned this and that way and then swung around.

"Most of the time it's like having an expensive lover, one you have to keep happy and lavish money on for moments of intense gratification."

To his intense gratification, he was asked to remain as the First Speaker ran through the records of that initial contact with another intelligent species.

Seizing the skin with forceps I stripped it away, and as I drew the lips of the bleeding wound together with stitches I noticed with intense gratification how the lashes were pulled high and away from the corneal surface they had irritated, perhaps for years.

If their most intense gratification had been awakened by seeing him wheeled in, how many hundredfold was their joy increased when, after a few indistinct cries of 'Sam!'

To his and Mr. Li's intense gratification, a veritable harvest of plans, complete with specifications (although some of these were improvements and annexes to some of Dehoney's existing lunar facilities-fascinating in themselves) arrived by special courier three weeks later.