Citations:enjoyment


 * 1678 — John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
 * For the lusts, pleasures, and profits of this world; in the enjoyment of which I did then promise myself much delight; but now every one of those things also bite me, and gnaw me like a burning worm.


 * 1843 — Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
 * "Spirit," said Scrooge, after a moment's thought, "I wonder you, of all the beings in the many worlds about us, should desire to cramp these people's opportunities of innocent enjoyment."