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Magnificent sturgeons, nine to ten meters long and extremely fast, banged their powerful tails against the glass of our panels, showing bluish backs with small brown spots; they resemble sharks, without equaling their strength, and are encountered in every sea; in the spring they delight in swimming up the great rivers, fighting the currents of the Volga, Danube, Po, Rhine, Loire, and Oder, while feeding on herring, mackerel, salmon, and codfish; although they belong to the class of cartilaginous fish, they rate as a delicacy; they're eaten fresh, dried, marinated, or salt-preserved, and in olden times they were borne in triumph to the table of the Roman epicure Lucullus.
But between these lava flows I spotted little violets that still gave off a subtle fragrance, and I confess that I inhaled it with delight.
The new delight of independence soon made his loneliness bearable.
It was therefore with delight that he accepted the landlady's suggestion that he should dine in company with the newcomers, and they passed into the large parlour where Madame Lefrancois, for the purpose of showing off, had had the table laid for four.
She could not help smiling, and she fell asleep, her soul filled with a new delight.
She was in love with Leon, and sought solitude that she might with the more ease delight in his image.
But she paid no heed to them; on the contrary, she lived as lost in the anticipated delight of her coming happiness.
When, from the summit of the hill, he saw in the valley below the church-spire with its tin flag swinging in the wind, he felt that delight mingled with triumphant vanity and egoistic tenderness that millionaires must experience when they come back to their native village.
It was a great delight at first, but soon he no longer concealed the truth, which was, that his master complained very much about these interruptions.
Every smile hid a yawn of boredom, every joy a curse, all pleasure satiety, and the sweetest kisses left upon your lips only the unattainable desire for a greater delight.
Beyond, there is a line of horizon formed by the hills of Burgundy, which seem to have been created on purpose to delight the eye.
To her great delight, she discovered an air of girlish shyness in this fatal tutor, whose severity and savage appearance she had so greatly dreaded for her children's sake.
His youthful courage took delight in detailed accounts of the most painful operations; he said to himself: 'I should not have flinched.'
As the friends of the family did not spoil her by offering her new and brilliant ideas, she took a delight in the flashes of Julien's intellect.
She coloured with delight, and almost simultaneously repulsed Julien with the anger of a jealous woman.
When the frightful idea of adultery and of all the ignominy which (she supposed) that crime brings in its train gave her at length a respite, and she began to dream of the delight of living with Julien innocently, as in the past, she found herself swept away by the horrible thought that Julien was in love with another woman.
These poor children did not know how to express their delight at seeing Julien again.
No prevarication in your answers; but remember that the man who is questioning you would perhaps take a real delight in trying to harm you.
There were several men in the room, among whom Julien recognised with unspeakable delight the young Bishop of Agde, who had condescended to say a few words to him once at the ceremony at Bray-le-Haut.
His blunders were the delight of the footmen.
'I shall be glad to be your second,' said Lieven, 'but upon one condition: if you do not hit your man, you shall fight with me, there and then.''Agreed,' said Julien, with delight; and they went to find M. C. de Beauvoisis at the address indicated upon his cards, in the heart of the Faubourg Saint-Germain.
The Due de Luxembourg at Montmorency accompanies a M. Coindet on the road to Paris,' replied Mademoiselle de La Mole with the impetuous delight of a first enjoyment of pedantry.
'Yes,' he said to himself with an infinite delight, dwelling on the words, 'our merits, the Marquis's and mine, have been weighed, and the poor carpenter from the Jura wins the day.
She found a strange delight in this kind of conversation; she proceeded to tell him of the fleeting impulses of enthusiasm which she had felt for M. de Croisenois, for M. de Caylus ...'What!
On the final days she seemed to be studying Julien with a sort of malignant delight.
'And so I have succeeded at last,' the Prince said to himself with delight, 'in making my voice heard when I give lessons to my masters!
To his inexpressible delight, M. de Frilair informed him that, touched by the good qualities of Julien and by the services which he had rendered in the past to the Seminary, he intended to intervene on his behalf with the judges.
[Murmurs of delight and anxiety to join in the chorus.
From this they immediately jumped to the conclusion that it was I, their beloved companion, who was making an exhibition of himself, and their delight knew no bounds.
His eyes, which stood at a most formidable distance from each other, were small, and characterized by an expression of good feeling, occasionally interrupted by the petulance of an indulged servant; they, however, now danced with inward delight.
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