It is, I suppose, pretty clear that the songs collected by Tom d'Urfey are a fair representation of the delectable and edifying ditties sung in taverns, and when the society was "mixed.
If the married couple were city people, they were regaled after the ceremony with the marrow-bones and cleavers--perhaps the most delectable music ever invented.
There had been delectable moments on the stairs, on the porch, stolen seconds in the summerhouse, but here they were on a blazing Sunday afternoon under a turquoise sky, with a salt and hearty wind stinging their faces, all by themselves.
I went up to have a parting romp with Rosemary on the last night of her stay with me, to have my last sip of honey from her delectable neck.
The fourth day of our delectable excursion brought us to an ancient town whose name you would recall in an instant if I were fool enough to mention it, and where we were to put up for the night.
The memories of the doings of the delectable weeks that followed, which I spent with bear and elk and spouting geysers and bubbling mud springs as my daily play-fellows, are still tinged with rose at the end of a score of years.
Not unless we are prepared to accept those delectable yarns of old Jim Bridger as the higher truth is there any evidence that the natural features of the Park have suffered material change since its discovery.
Also, I had fairly intimate glimpses in the course of that delectable interval of vagabondage of several notable frontier characters whom no present-day wanderer by the ways of the Yellowstone can ever hope to meet.
If it had only been the good old cow-town Billings of those delectable baseball days of twenty years ago, what wouldn't have been mine that night!
Chopin invented many new harmonic devices, he untied the chord that was restrained within the octave, leading it into the dangerous but delectable land of extended harmonies.
Again the story is told, and tarrying not at all we are led to a most delectable spot in the key of A major.
With the Schumann Toccata, the G sharp minor study stands at the portals of the delectable land of Double Notes.
But when the Shepherds heard their answers, being pleased therewith, they looked very lovingly upon them, and said, Welcome to the Delectable Mountains.
They said, With the Shepherds, upon the Delectable Mountains.
The Delectable Mountains seem intended to represent those calm seasons of peace and comfort-(Scott).
Did we not see, from the Delectable Mountains, the gate of the city?
On the Delectable Mountains, the pilgrims had a sight of the Celestial City.
They also acquainted themselves with the shepherds there, who welcomed them, as they had done Christian before, unto the Delectable Mountains.
The whole fabric, as the doors, posts, and windows, presented themselves to beholders in an exact uniform order, and so right delectable to behold.
I saw now that they went on, till they came at the river that was on this side of the Delectable Mountains.
They said, moreover, We would that ye should stay here a while, to be acquainted with us; and yet more to solace yourselves with the good of these Delectable Mountains.
Here droppeth the delectable dew; here floweth the pleasant nectar; here runneth the sweet milk; here is plenty of all good things.
As a delectable meal it was a success; as an exhibition of Mrs. Carey's capacity for home making, it was something of a failure.
Only the best would do for the delectable preserve which was to go into glasses and be served on special occasions; the others could be made into jam less attractive to the eye if hardly less acceptable to the palate.
Which brings us, if you please, to the first Delectable Mountain.
Which was my first glimpse, and is the reader's, of the Zulu; he being one of the Delectable Mountains.
His departure (than which a more joyous I have never witnessed) has been already mentioned in connection with the third Delectable Mountain, as has been the departure for Précigne of Pom Pom and Harree ensemble.
The reader may suppose that it is about time another Delectable Mountain appeared upon his horizon.
It was not long after Bill the Hollander's departure that we lost two Delectable Mountains in The Wanderer and Surplice.
As it turned out, he was one of the Delectable Mountains; to discover which I had come a long and difficult way.
This period extends to the moment of my departure and includes the discovery of The Delectable Mountains, two of which--The Wanderer and I shall not say the other--have already been sighted.
IX ZOO-LOO This is the name of the second Delectable Mountain.
But it is Eden, madam, Eden and Beulah and the Delectable Mountains and Eldorado and the Hesperidean Isles and Bimini.
The name of the Delectable Land in one of Heine's Lieder.
Jo never would jump or nose around among the trees where such delectable scents lurked.
At noon the roofs of St. Michael's were in plain sight over the pastures; by the road was a delectable pine grove with an opening broad enough to drive in, so in Jo drove.
He smelled around among the delectable new things in the woods, found the scent for which he was searching, and trotted off gaily, feeling young and dapper once again.
Colonel Faversham invited Bridget to officiate, and told himself how delectable she looked as, half-shyly, she passed his cup and saucer.
Still she looked up at him rather pitifully, her eyes meeting his own, her chin invitingly raised with its delectable dimple.
Nay, that animating and delectable feeling I cherish ever for such enchanted commodities as gold-dust and sandal-wood and sesame and cloth of gold and black slaves with scimitars--to whom do I owe it but this rare and delightful artist?
For is not his work so full of quick, fiery, and delectable shapes as to be perpetual sherris?
Is there any thing more fair, more pleasant or more delectable to the sight, then a cleare shining flame?
Nothing will tire a single boy of the lot, to-day, except missing some part of this delectable Show!
The Delectable Mountains had no scene more lovely.
The meadows by the River of Life, the Delectable Mountains, the land of Beulah, how often have I thought of them!
As we began to wind upward into that delectable region which forms the first stage of ascent, I said to C.
It seems to be an idea too preposterous even to introduce into the pages of Newgate romance, daring in their flights of fancy as are the authors affecting that delectable line.
The great dreamer soon escaped from Doubting Castle to the Delectable Mountains; but for the poet, the dungeon bars remained unloosed until the final summons came to the everlasting hills.
And the shepherds took them by the hand and led them to the top of Clear, the highest of all the Delectable Mountains, and the pilgrims looked and saw, faintly and very far off, the gate and the glory of the Celestial City.
And I saw in my dream that the two pilgrims went down the Delectable Mountains along the narrow way, and after walking some distance they came to a place where the path branched.
The Celestial City Having thus got safely out of Doubting Castle, Christian and Hopeful made their way back to the banks of the river of life, and, following the rough and stony way, they came at last to the Delectable Mountains.
The Delectable Mountains may have been the blue line of the Sussex Downs, or the hills by Black Down and Hindhead.
He was just in the act of pouring this most delectable sauce over the two bits of tender fowl upon our hot plates, when, happening to look up, I saw some one entering the door.
I envied them, for theirs, now, was that rare, fleeting and most delectable of all human states, the full realization of every cherished earthly dream.
Anyway, I'll bury the issue, along with my nose, in the delectable juleps Timmie is bringing.
If I hadn't lapped up so much of your delectable nose-paint, that hayseed couldn't have walked me to death.
Even this dualism of a mistress who was a low cocotte in bed and a fine lady when dressed--or no, too intelligent to be called a fine lady--was a delectable pimento.
