Citations:delight

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English citations of delight

Verb[edit]

1580 1842
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  • 1580, Greensleeves:
    For I have loved you well and long, / Delighting in your company.
  • 1842, Tennyson, Le Morte d’Arthur:
    I think that we / Shall never more [] / Delight our souls with talk of knightly deeds, / []

Noun[edit]

1580 1678 1843 1967 2013
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  • 1580, Greensleeves:
    Greensleeves was all my joy / Greensleeves was my delight, []
  • 1678John Bunyan. The Pilgrim's Progress.
    I further thought, if now I did deny Those that would have it, thus to gratify. I did not know but hinder them I might Of that which would to them be great delight.
    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.
    Thus it happened to Israel, for their sin; they were sent back again by the way of the Red Sea; and I am made to tread those steps with sorrow, which I might have trod with delight, had it not been for this sinful sleep.
  • 1843Charles Dickens. A Christmas Carol.
    So did the room, the fire, the ruddy glow, the hour of night, and they stood in the city streets on Christmas morning, where (for the weather was severe) the people made a rough, but brisk and not unpleasant kind of music, in scraping the snow from the pavement in front of their dwellings, and from the tops of their houses, whence it was mad delight to the boys to see it come plumping down into the road below, and splitting into artificial little snow-storms.
    Cratchit, looking slowly all along the carving-knife, prepared to plunge it in the breast; but when she did, and when the long expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried Hurrah!
    There was a remarkable expression in it now; a kind of serious delight of which he felt ashamed, and which he struggled to repress.
  • 1967, Barbara Sleigh, Jessamy, Sevenoaks, Kent: Bloomsbury, published 1993, →ISBN, page 122:
    At any other time Jessamy would have laughed at the expressions that chased each other over his freckled face: crossness left over from his struggle with the baby; incredulity; distress; and finally delight.
  • 2013 June 8, “The new masters and commanders”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 52:
    From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much. Those entering it are greeted by wire fences, walls dating back to colonial times and security posts. For mariners leaving the port after lonely nights on the high seas, the delights of the B52 Night Club and Stallion Pub lie a stumble away.