Delights

Examples

• Our first plan had been to quit our wintry native latitude, and seek for our diminished numbers the luxuries and delights of a southern climate. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• I know that such a girl as Harriet is exactly what every man delights inwhat at once bewitches his senses and satisfies his judgment. Jane Austen. Emma.
• She doesn't bounce, but moves quietly, and takes care of a certain little person in a motherly way which delights me. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• Nor should our citizens be given to excess of laughter--'Such violent delights' are followed by a violent re-action. Plato. The Republic.
• One would be startled to see him with a bright tie, a loud checked suit, or a fancy waistcoat, and yet there is a curious sense of fastidiousness about the plain things he delights in. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Captain Marryatt writes: I do not know a spot on the globe which so much astonishes and delights upon first arrival as Madeira. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• In progress of time, I also became a father, and our little darlings, our playthings and delights, called forth a thousand new and delicious feelings. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She was going to bestow on me a kiss, in her school-girl fashion of showing her delights but I said, Steady! Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It delights my eye to look on her. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• The reflecting observer delights occasionally to shift the scenes of the present stage and bring to the front the processions of the past. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• To Jo's lively fancy, this fine house seemed a kind of enchanted palace, full of splendors and delights which no one enjoyed. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• I think I know the delights of freedom, I answered. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• Sally grows a fine girl, and is extremely industrious with her needle, and delights in her work. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• The typewriter saves time, labor, postage and paper; it reduces the liability to mistakes, brings system into official correspondence, and delights the heart of the printer. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• I am passionately fond of music, he said, turning over some songs, and nothing so delights me as to hear a woman's voice. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Desiring to share his new delights with his friends and neighbors, he called them together and they had a wonderful feast. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• A magnificent feast delights us, and a sordid one displeases. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• It had merely enjoyed the delights of anxious anticipation, and the perilous pleasure of backing Edison's experiments. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• The prospect of such delights was very cheering, and they parted in mutual good spirits. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• To these sufferings there were corresponding delights. Plato. The Republic.
• In that situation, the expense, even of a sovereign, cannot be directed by that vanity which delights in the gaudy finery of a court. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• Only she delights in making people miserable, and especially poor George. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• It quite delights me. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• I was flushed by her summary of delights, and replied that it would indeed be a treat, but what would my mother say? Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• And let us make the best of Becky's aristocratic pleasures likewise--for these too, like all other mortal delights, were but transitory. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Anything of that kind delights her. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• It was as the abode of a fairy to him--a mystic chamber of splendour and delights. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• His father was the kind of man who delights in a charming woman: who quotes her, stimulates her, and keeps her perennially charming. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.

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