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Delighted in sentence

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He was delighted thus to mortify his enemy, the Jansenist Pirard.
He was delighted to find in him neither anger nor thoughts of revenge, nor discouragement.
'I am really delighted to hear it,' said the Bishop merrily.
Before midnight, Julien was with Fouque, whose sober mind was more astonished than delighted by the future which seemed to be in store for his friend.
'I think,' he said to Julien, 'that presently you might go to the riding school; and after a few weeks I shall be delighted to ride with you.''I wished to have the honour of thanking you for all your kindness to me; pray believe, Sir,' Julien added with a most serious air, 'that I am fully conscious of all that I owe you.
Mathilde had too much taste to lead up in conversation to a witticism prepared beforehand; but she had also too much vanity not to be delighted with her own wit.
'Let us take a turn in the garden,' said the Academician, delighted to see this chance of delivering a long and formal speech.
The Academician, delighted to find a virgin ear, related at full length to Julien how, on the 30th of April, 1574, the handsomest young man of his age, Boniface de La Mole, and Annibal de Coconasso, a Piedmontese gentleman, his friend, had been beheaded on the Place de Greve.
He went to sleep, highly delighted with his trick.
'What have you in the side pocket of your coat?'Mathilde asked him, delighted at finding a topic of conversation.
'You get way by the door,' said Mathilde, delighted at this solution.
Just as he had drawn the sword, with some difficulty, from its antiquated scabbard, Mathilde, delighted by so novel a sensation, advanced proudly towards him; her tears had ceased to flow.
One of the profiles as she finished it startled and delighted her: it bore a striking resemblance to Julien.
'It was old Japan,' she said, 'it came to me from my great-aunt the Abbess of Chelles; it was a present from the Dutch to the Duke of Orleans when he was Regent and he gave it to his daughter ...'Mathilde had followed her mother, delighted to see the destruction of this blue vase which seemed to her horribly ugly.
'Really, one would think,' said Madame de La Mole as he went, 'that this M. Sorel is proud and delighted with what he has done.'
MACHIAVELLIThe grave personage continued; one could see that he knew; he set forth with a gentle and moderate eloquence, which vastly delighted Julien, the following great truths:(1) England has not a guinea at our service; economy and Hume are the fashion there.
Mathilde was delighted.
Fouque, delighted to see his friend at last responsive to his dominant idea, explained to him in full detail, and to within a hundred francs or so, what he expected to receive for each of his properties.
Fouque, delighted by the enthusiasm which he read in his friend's eyes, mistook it for consent to an escape.
A small circle had formed around the two of them, the visitors near him in the gallery seemed delighted that the serious tone K. had introduced into the gathering had been disturbed in this way.
Gregor converted his success at work straight into cash that he could lay on the table at home for the benefit of his astonished and delighted family.
"My father!-my dear father!" - cried the handsome young man; "and you, my dearest sisters and aunt! - have I at last met you again?""Heaven bless you, my Henry, my son!" exclaimed the astonished but delighted parent; while his sisters sank on his shoulders, dissolved in tears.
Colonel Wellmere was among those who delighted most in expending his wit on the unfortunate Americans; and, in time, Frances began to listen to his eloquence with great suspicion, and sometimes with resentment.
"Yes, Miss Sally," cried the delighted black, "it make old Dinah heart leap for joy - so berry genteel."
Harvey was about to utter something in reply, when the door opened, and Caesar made his appearance, attended by his delighted spouse.
"Ah!Dunwoodie," added the sobbing girl, "you are about to risk your life in battle; remember that there is one heart whose happiness is built on your safety; brave I know you are: be prudent - ""For your sake?" inquired the delighted youth.
"See, Tom, see," cried the delighted trooper, "how Captain Lawton makes that Hessian's leather cap fly; and now the major has killed the officer's horse - zounds, why didn't he kill the Dutchman and save the horse?"
The delighted Caesar closed the door, pushing bolt after bolt, and turning the key until it would turn no more, soliloquizing the whole time on the happy escape of his young master.
"There," cried the delighted captain, as he pointed out the movement with his finger, "there comes John Bull into the mousetrap, and with eyes wide open."
"Aye," cried the delighted trooper, "to mend the peddler's breeches."
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