Kirk knew such an act would bring him intense pleasure.

He experienced a more intense pleasure or pain in all that happened to him.

Thomas took her hand, naturally, and she felt an intense pleasure from the simple contact.

Certain mortality gave him an intense pleasure in the present.

There was for him the most intense pleasure in talking about his work to Miriam.

Then, suddenly, a pleasure more intense that anything she had ever felt seemed to burst within her.

Such a sight would once have given him intense pleasure.

He had experienced many intense pleasures in his life, but this one was new to him.

But then the whole tone of the opening section would have given him intense pleasure.

Now, he no longer gave to society but took from it, and with intense pleasure.