429 adjectives to describe delighting

To his intense delight he was engaged, receiving a salary of thirty pounds a year.

In the cherry pluckt at night, With the dew of summer swelling, There's a juice of pure delight, Cool, dark, sweet, divinely smelling.

When she reached it she stopped and looked with keen delight at the beautiful creatures in the fields on either side.

To the exquisite delight of the assailants, the first prize of victory was the guns O'Brien had abandoned at Buena Vista, which were regained by his own regiment.

the sweet delight Which from participation springs, Is quite unknown to these young things.

The sensations caused by the novelty of my situation, at first checked those lively and varied trains of thought which the bird's-eye view of so many countries passing in review before us, was calculated to excite: yet, after I had become more familiar with it, I contemplated the beautiful exhibition with inexpressible delight.

Thus shall thy young fair frame no longer be A prison, but a meetest dwelling-place, Full of all infinite delights, and dear As is its nest to the heaven-soaring lark, That yearns down, singing, to it from the sky.

Now they received the signal with a fierce delight, and dashed forward against the enemy with a fury which nothing could resist.

He was breathing deeply as he walked, and gazing with a sort of childish delight upon the Michigan landscape about him.

He marvelled more than ever now at her beauty; for her gentleness with the cubs and the extreme delight she took in them seemed to him then to make her more lovely than before.

In the early times, there must have been those who stood apart from their tribesmen in contests of pure athletic skill,in running, jumping, leaping, wrestling, in laying on thew and thigh with arm, hand, and curled fist in sheer delight of action, and of the display of strength.

Wild Bill was continually playing tricks upon the members of the company, and it was his especial delight to torment the "supers."

He was used to admiration from feminine eyes, and flattery from soft lips, but found something new and charming in the innocent delight which showed itself at his approach in blushes more eloquent than words, and shy glances from eyes full of hero-worship.

I was the sole delight, the peculiar felicity of a youthful spouse, and, just as he loved me, so did I equally love him.

Now, whereas it is my father's will To marry me unto Segasto, one, Whose wealth through father's former usury Is known to be no less than wonderful, We both of custom oftentimes did use, Leaving the court, to walk within the fields For recreation, especially [in] the spring, In that it yields great store of rare delights;

But soon a peopled region on the sight Opensa little world of calm delight; Where mists, suspended on the expiring gale, 210 Spread roof like o'er the deep secluded vale, And beams of evening slipping in between, Gently illuminate a sober scene: Here, on the brown wood-cottages

Major Pendennis had won a complete victory, and his secret delight at having rescued Pen from an unwise attachment was only equalled by his regret at the real suffering he was obliged to allow the lad to go through.

Like all exceedingly zealous men, the Irishman had an itching propensity to be doing, and he was filled with a sort of boyish delight at the prospect of effecting a great service to those whom he so well loved, without their knowing it.

She looked at him so cheerfully that he asked with eager delight, "Do you feel so much better already, Leonore?" "Oh, yes, I feel as if I were at home," she replied with shining eyes.

You will take little delight in it, there is such odds in the men: in pity to this young roan, I would wish to persuade him from wrestling.

Let then thy beauty, to preserve my life, Temper the source of this supreme delight, Lest joy so poignant slay a soul so weak.

A cry of extraordinary delight burst forth.

It is with authors as with actors: mere delight in the art deludes them into the belief that they could be artists.

No one doubts the accuracy of Wordsworth's account, in the Prelude of his early half-sensuous delight in mountain glory.

Each made a dive for a paper and each face wore an expression of genuine delight.

429 adjectives to describe  delighting