Delightfully

Examples

• In came Amy, quite calm and delightfully cordial to the one guest who had kept her promise. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Will Ladislaw was delightfully agreeable at dinner the next day, and gave no opportunity for Mr. Casaubon to show disapprobation. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• We explored to King's-Weston twice last summer, in that way, most delightfully, just after their first having the barouche-landau. Jane Austen. Emma.
• What could more delightfully prove that the warmth of her heart was equal to its gentleness? Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Her small virtues were so sweet that she would have been quite angelic if a few small naughtinesses had not kept her delightfully human. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• How delightfully poor Coavinses (father of these charming children) illustrated the same principle! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Delightfully tired, I lay down, on three chairs for an hour (the room did not boast a sofa). Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• My mother is delightfully well; and Jane caught no cold last night. Jane Austen. Emma.
• It always has quite hurt me that Jane Fairfax, who plays so delightfully, should not have an instrument. Jane Austen. Emma.
• She will make quite an angel of him, and he will make life delightfully easy and pleasant for the dear, if they only love each other. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Of course I am aware that Pa has hardly any claims to deportment, but they get on together delightfully. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• When they had been all walking together, he had so often come and walked by her, and talked so very delightfully! Jane Austen. Emma.
• I made up my mind weeks ago that I wouldn't miss this wedding, and just fancy how delightfully it all came about. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Light, he said, in that delightfully confidential tone which is so soothing to an invalid, is the first essential. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• I am confident that she would have performed delightfully. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• You, Miss Woodhouse, I well know, play delightfully. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Miss Fairlie plays delightfully. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A really irresistible man--courteous, considerate, delightfully free from pride--a gentleman, every inch of him. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• We sat round the fire, and talked delightfully. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• You see how delightfully she writes. Jane Austen. Emma.
• This was a delightfully reassuring idea supposing that Lydgate died, but in the mean time not a self-supporting idea. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• He was acutely and delightfully conscious of himself, of his own attractiveness. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• She DOES paint most delightfully! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• He enjoyed himself thoroughly, and we all enjoyed ourselves, and were delightfully comfortable. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The letter went very soon, however, and was promptly answered, for Amy was homesick, and confessed it in the most delightfully confiding manner. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Come, come, said Estella, smiling delightfully, you must not expect me to go to school to you; I must talk in my own way. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• He was refreshingly dressed in summer costume--his manner was delightfully self-possessed and quiet--he had a charming smile. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• A very rich and powerful one: she sang delightfully; it was a treat to listen to her;--and she played afterwards. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• Fred, she said, peeping round to catch his eyes, which were sulkily turned away from her, you are too delightfully ridiculous. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• That barrel we have in the cellar--delightfully prepared by my own hands--she termed a tub of hog-wash, which means food for pigs. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.

Edited by Christine