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Though they were not the "wild men in skins" he was expecting, he found he could communicate with them in Polish, enjoyed their company and their songs, and resolved to become their king.

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  1. transitive verb To receive pleasure or satisfaction from.
  2. transitive verb To have the use or benefit of: enjoys good health.
  3. intransitive verb To have a pleasurable or satisfactory time.
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  • This freedom he greatly enjoyed, and not a day passed without his taking long excursions in all directions. —  The Life of John Clare
  • He shall give them a pension equal to the revenue they formerly enjoyed, and their places in the sees thus vacated shall be supplied, both in the Empire and the Kingdom of Italy. —  Recollections of the private life of Napoleon
  • The Bishop, with his own great interest in Hebrew, enjoyed very much his Hebrew reading with Mr. Atkin and Mr. Bice. —  Life of John Coleridge Patteson
  • On my departure from Lyons, I saw nothing but an agreeable future, the content I now with reason enjoyed was as great as my discontent had been at leaving Paris, notwithstanding, I had not during this journey any of those delightful reveries I then enjoyed. —  The Confessions of J J Rousseau
  • Though they were not the "wild men in skins" he was expecting, he found he could communicate with them in Polish, enjoyed their company and their songs, and resolved to become their king. —  Laughable and Tragic
 

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