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Sentences starting with delight

Delight in brilliant spectacles was doubtless natural to her disposition, and as Pyramus not only loved but esteemed her, it was repugnant to his feelings to watch her. [10]

Sentences ending with delight

What bliss it would be if she was permitted to penetrate deeply into his soul, if it were allotted to her to make the ruler's grave eyes sparkle with radiant delight! [10]
The crowd shouted with delight. [10]
Angele watched him with a strange thrill of timid admiration and delight. [11]
That Seitz Siebenburg, whom he bitterly hated, had fallen in a sword combat by his master's own hand, afforded Biberli the keenest delight. [10]
The daft one whinnied with delight. [11]
Ardent kisses, of which she had forbidden herself even to think, she awaited with blissful delight. [10]
Kittens capering about were his chief delight. [5]
If his eyes were again permitted to convey to him what formerly filled his soul with delight! [10]
In the Canopic way Dada was fairly beside herself with delight. [10]
In this music was the note of the character of the man who played--sensuous emotion, sensual delight. [11]

Short sentences using delight

They delight in anything new! [10]

Sentences containing delight two or more times

She learned all unconsciously (by suggestion, as it were) to take delight in them; a delight that was to last her lifetime, a never failing resource to which she was to turn again and again. [9]
Oh, it is such a delight to me, such a delight to me, to meet Madame Bernhardt, and laugh hand to hand and heart to heart with her. [5]

More example sentences with the word delight in them

What may delight you will cost bitter tears to many others, and so let us both hope that this splendid spectacle may now have reached its climax, and soon may come to an end. [10]
It would delight you to see some of them playing Indian when surrounded by the wonders and improvements of the Old World. [4]
I cannot tell you how we have followed you, with what interest and delight through your travels, as you have told their story in your letters to your mother. [6]
I already behold you creating other works to the delight of gods and men; but this Demeter extorts boundless, enthusiastic appreciation; both as a whole, and in detail, it is faultless and worthy of the most ardent praise. [10]
Meanwhile I had written to Miss Bronte to tell her the delight with which her book filled me; and seem to have sermonised her, to judge from her reply. [14]
Later on she would know, and delight to confess, that her destiny was fixed at a certain hour, at a certain moment, in New York, for subsequent events would run back to that like links in a chain. [4]
What delight it would also have given her to provide her son's linen, and how much finer was the Flanders material than that made at Villagarcia! [10]
She was a woman and need wear no colors; and her enthusiasm for the old gods and Greek taste and prejudices were the delight of her father. [10]
People went dizzy with wonder and delight over it. [5]
They scattered, screaming with delight, and she after them. [9]
He looked forward with delight to the time when he could again have his private garden, grow his own lettuce and tomatoes, and not have to get so much "sarce" from Congress. [4]
He sat up with delight to see an artist and his "Madame" returning from a journey in the country, seated upon sheaves of corn, quite unregarded by the world; doing as they listed with unabashed simplicity. [11]
The abbess watched with delight the influence of her words upon the soul of her darling, who, gazing thoughtfully at the floor, now seemed to be pondering over what she had urged. [10]
Biberli had noticed with delight that his master had not sought as usual to detain him. [10]
He was startled with a piece of information which gave him such an exquisite pang of delight that he could hardly keep the usual quiet of his demeanor. [6]
Tom looked on with a grin, while little Tom and Peggy reached out their hands in delight, their mother vigorously blocking their intentions. [9]
Only a man who has experienced it--that is, has passed some months continuously in an atmosphere of campaigning and war--can understand the delight Nicholas felt when he escaped from the region covered by the army's foraging operations, provision trains, and hospitals. [2]
The interest with which the fair daughter of his companion-in-arms watched his deeds and his destiny, the modest yet ardent devotion afterwards displayed by the much sought-after young widow, who coldly repelled all other suitors, had been a delight to him in times of peace. [10]
With a calmness which seemed to the servant incomprehensible, though it filled him with delight, he turned to the monk, saying earnestly and simply: "Appearances may be against me, Pater Benedictus. [10]
I have questioned whether their delight was not like that of the Spartans in the drunken antics of their Helots. [6]
Had we conquered, what a proud delight it would have been to say, 'The weapons which you gave to the man you loved gained him the sovereignty of the world! [10]
You cannot think what a delight I feel in passing through its galleries, filled with old parchment-bound books. [4]
The distant prospects were Anne's delight, and when I look round, she is in the blue tints, the pale mists, the waves and shadows of the horizon. [14]
Nay, he presently went to such lengths that our Franconian and Nuremberg nobles could but turn away their faces, inasmuch as he began so wild and unseemly a dance as was overmuch even for me, despite my youth and sheer delight in the quick measure. [10]
The song was weird, with a strange thrilling charm; it had the slow dignity of a chant, the roll of an epic, the delight of wild beauty. [11]
What delight it was to burst from the shelter of the thicket and touch with our poles two, three, or four of the surprised enemies ere they thought of defence! [10]
She, whose nature was so hopeful that, when the glow of the sunset faded, she already anticipated with delight the rosy dawn of the next day, now beheld in Cleopatra's hand the reed which was to sign the death-sentence of Dion and herself. [10]
Gifted Hopkins, who was reading some of his last poems to her, with great delight to both of them. [6]
His heart too was overflowing with passionate delight. [10]
The delight that was in my heart showed in my face, and the man saw it and was pleased; saw it so plainly that he answered it as if it had been spoken. [5]
At first she was frightened; but then she exclaimed with delight from the very bottom of her faithful heart, "The gods be praised! [10]
Presently the cloud-rack was flooded with fiery splendors, and these were copied on the surface of the sea, and it made one drunk with delight to look upon it. [5]
And when he was awake, his efforts to communicate the dawning ideas of the queer world into which he had come were a never-failing delight. [4]
Whenever the talk was at all general, it was his delight to turn one against the other. [11]
It made one want to cry for delight, it was so supreme in its unimaginable majesty and beauty. [5]
The spirit of vanity in his soul laughed in delight, and the lad soon knew the way to the large Venetian mirror, which was carefully kept in the hall of state. [10]
She sought in vain in them for those evidences of spontaneous love, of delight in writing to her of all persons in the world, the eagerness of the lover that she recalled in letters written in other days. [4]
Ordinarily when an unsigned poem sweeps across the continent like a tidal wave whose roar and boom and thunder are made up of admiration, delight, and applause, a dozen obscure people rise up and claim the authorship. [5]
He could now understand his father's tales of his Majesty's better days, his vigorous manly strength and eager delight in existence. [10]
The very name, Uhrig's Cave, sent a shiver of delight down one's spine, and many were the conjectures one made as to what might be enclosed in that half a block of impassible brick wall, over which the great trees stretched their branches. [9]
Now I had two rooms to myself, in the undisputed possession of which I had taken a puerile delight. [9]
John, it is true, did not care much for anything that did not appeal to his taste and smell and delight in brilliant color; and he trod down the exquisite ferns and the wonderful mosses--without compunction. [4]
Without a courier, travel hasn't a ray of pleasure in it, anywhere; but with him it is a continuous and unruffled delight. [5]
Damia and Porphyrius took a vain pleasure in their eager discussions, and clapped with delight, as though it were a game of skill, when Gorgo laughingly checkmated her excited opponent with some unanswerable argument. [10]
Hereupon I hastily told him that we had hunted down the robbers and rescued it, and it was a joy to see how much comfort and delight this was to him. [10]
She yielded herself to the witchery of the hour, the sheer delight of forthfaring into the unknown. [9]
Her heart yielded to no feeling but the love of Elfonzo, on whom she gazed with intense delight, and to whom she felt herself more closely bound, because he sought the hand of no other. [5]
The next day, to my great delight, I met him again at Professor Baum's. [10]
You are dear to me, like the beautiful by-gone days of my youth, like pleasant dreams, like a noble song, in which we take delight, and which refreshes our souls, whenever we hear or remember it--but more you are not, more you can never be. [10]
His delight was to kick my shins with all his might, under the desk, not at all as an act of hostility, but as a gratifying and harmless pastime. [6]
Her art seemed to him to grow under his eyes like a wonderful plant, and the quiet, reserved man expressed his delight so unequivocally that the Emperor beckoned to him and asked his opinion of the singer's performance. [10]
Suddenly she came to her feet with a cry of delight, and ran out towards the horse. [11]
She was dressed to go to church, and after expressing her delight at the honor done to herself and her whole household by the prelate's visit, she invited Orion to accompany her. [10]
I, too, seemed to feel the delight of carrying with me, as if they were my own, the charms of a presence which made its own welcome everywhere. [6]
I should like to feel that thrill of physical delight he must have experienced in merely closing his hand over something. [4]
But he seemed to delight in the pain he had caused. [9]
Then she fell to conning the titles again, finding a delight in the inspection of the Hawthornes, the Longfellows, the Tennysons, and other favorites of her idle hours. [5]
He also caused to be erected, in the same mouldy cabin, an old ship's stove with a rusty funnel to carry the smoke through the roof; and these arrangements completed, surveyed them with ineffable delight. [12]
She had wished to arouse his attention, his approval, his delight in her singing. [10]
It came officially through brother Washington, the private Secretary, who appended a postscript that was brimming with delight over the prospect of seeing the Duchess again. [5]
But succeeding the thrill of delight I had at thought of seeing the open world again there came a feeling of lassitude, of indifference; I shrank from the jar of activity. [11]
Do you remember those English people at our house in Flushing last summer, who pleased us all so much with their apparent delight in everything that was artistic or tasteful, who explored the rooms and looked at everything, and were so interested? [4]
Our delight in this wondrous spectacle did not prevent this generous wish for the gratification of the whale. [4]
The noise of this vocal performance awakened the other man, who, staggering upon deck and shaking his late opponent by the hand, swore that singing was his pride and joy and chief delight, and that he desired no better entertainment. [12]
His Lordship watched this thrust and parry with an ill-concealed delight. [9]
I believe that this combination makes the perfection of human delight. [5]
A tall and thin gentleman, who had come out of the inn without a hat, was surveying the dispute with a keen delight. [9]
But this year there had been a large number of rough, adventurous characters among the river-men, and they seemed to take delight in making sport of, and even interfering with, the salmon- fishers. [11]
And men lost their wits and looked on at the crime, flinging the delight of the gods into the water and the kiln. [10]
The delight in their society has a variety of sources. [4]
The Greeks offered their own sacrifices, and shouted with delight on hearing that the omens were auspicious. [10]
She silently accepted the water he offered her, and drank it with delight, to the very dregs. [10]
So beautiful are the visions of bygone delight that one could hardly wish them to become real, lest they should lose their ineffable charm. [6]
Honora found in the very atmosphere a certain magic which she did not try to define, but to the enjoyment of which she abandoned herself; and in those first days after her arrival she took a sheer delight in driving about the island. [9]
And when, between the verses, he went through the agonies of a Huron war-dance, the assembled regiment howled with delight. [9]
She soon saw the tops of the palms and sycamores in their own garden, her faithful old dog Melas barked with delight, and the happiness which the meeting with the stranger had for a moment interrupted revived with unchecked glow. [10]
The beauty of the season is but half developed, so that while there is enough to yield present delight, there is the flattering promise of still further enjoyment. [4]
Before they reached the room from which the sounds of the clavichord came, the pretty, fair haired Frenchwoman, Mademoiselle Bourienne, rushed out apparently beside herself with delight. [2]
You know that the Rhine has been to Germans what the Nile was to the Egyptians,--a delight, and the theme of song and story. [4]
It afforded them the rarest, most enlivening delight. [10]
That splendid building, the pride of the city and the delight of men's eyes, destroyed--swept away like dust from the road! [10]
The trumpet sounded, the people broke out in shouts of delight, the tilting began. [11]
He knew that the other was ready for any wild move; there was upon him the sense of failure and disgust; he was acted on by the magic of the night, the terrible delight of the scene, and that might be turned to advantage. [11]
The delight of the Nobility and Gentry shorn of a bonnet which a Lady Mayoress might have sighed to wear, and arrayed in a white sheet as a spectacle of mortification and humility! [12]
Its completion by the locking of the keystone is a delight to witness and to contemplate. [6]
We collected within the limits of this bit of earth everything which can delight the senses; not a single one is omitted in this narrow space, whose crowded maze of pleasures fairly impede freedom of movement. [10]
He sent with the letter a portrait of his wife and when the duchess saw it and read the letter she grew ten years younger from pure delight, and old Nonna at least five. [10]
In that world, the handsome drunkard Number One of the second gun's crew was "uncle"; Tushin looked at him more often than at anyone else and took delight in his every movement. [2]
The dressmaker from the Grieb was already in her service, and had been a witness of her sincere delight and grateful pleasure. [10]
It gave him the greatest delight, and he fully expected to see the next one, planned for 1910. [5]
He saw through the game, and it seemed as if he could not help laughing aloud in delight at his own penetration, in rage and despair. [10]
She looked at the faces of the audience, seeking in them the same sense of ridicule and perplexity she herself experienced, but they all seemed attentive to what was happening on the stage, and expressed delight which to Natasha seemed feigned. [2]
Had she shared the Emperor's power, it would have been a delight to her in this hour to repay the malignant insult in the same or far heavier coin. [10]
At last--at last, the door of the room was opened, and Euergetes came towards her, clad in the purple, with the crown of the two countries on his grand head, radiant with triumph and delight. [10]
We can imagine the delight of the humorist in reading this tribute to his power; and indeed it is so amusing in itself that he can hardly do better than reproduce the article in full in his next monthly Memoranda. [5]
I have cherished the delight of that moment from that day to this. [5]
Come now, Telemachus, the dame's birds seem to delight you very much. [10]
The ladies of the court gazed with delight at the red towers of the Alhambra, rising from amid shady groves, anticipating the time when the Catholic sovereigns should be enthroned within its walls, and its courts shine with the splendor of Spanish chivalry. [4]
Who wonders if the brothers of Jesus asked him to come home with them, and said his mother and his sisters were grieved at his long absence, and would be wild with delight to see his face again? [5]
Are you aware that you have a pleasant sense of patronizing him, when you condescend so far as to let him turn somersets, literal or literary, for your royal delight? [6]

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