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Example sentences for "delightfully"

Lexicographically close words:
delighter; delightest; delighteth; delightful; delightfull; delightfulness; delighting; delights; delightsome; delimit
  1. The delightfully inconsequent outcropping wooded heights and ranges of Herefordshire press more closely on the river, particularly on its eastern banks, and amid the stately purlieus of Holm Lacy.

  2. Hearken how delightfully Paul handleth the point: The new creatures are the Israel of God.

  3. How delightfully has Bunyan brought forth the marrow of this important text.

  4. Jenny, Such slender dimensions go somewhat to show You were a delightfully small Pic-a-ninny Some nineteen or twenty short summers ago.

  5. And she slips in my hand--the delightfully sly Thing-- A paper-weight formed of a bronze lizard writhing.

  6. You make me feel like a boy," he said, after listening to a delightfully whimsical account of conditions in Peru.

  7. How delightfully boyish the dear Duke is," observed Mrs. Sanderson-Spear, beaming at him from across the table.

  8. Indeed, he talked delightfully all through dinner, and with the coffee, half laughingly, half apologizingly told us the story of his life.

  9. You were delightfully primitive, an absolute cave-dweller, but you quite repaid my efforts to make a human being of you.

  10. He is a delightfully ornamental person, but I can assure you that as a father-in-law he is a distinct luxury.

  11. She busies herself pouring tea, while in the orchestra a delightfully tender, untroubled waltz-theme reflects her tranquil spirit, which is like some quiet mountain pool in the path of a coming avalanche.

  12. A story unique in theme, delightfully told with many delicate touches.

  13. The nights are delightfully cool, and the mornings peculiarly fresh and bracing.

  14. In the vicinity of the sea-shore, and as far inland as Soledad, the temperature was delightfully cool and bracing; but beyond the first turning-point of mountains to the southward a marked change was perceptible.

  15. There may be others who patronize these delightfully situated riverside inns, but the former predominate in the season.

  16. To this bareness the pleasant little town of Stockbridge, situated delightfully in the valley of the Anton, is a gracious interlude.

  17. In high good humor because he was so delightfully hungry and was about to get food, he cried: "Do cheer up!

  18. She had a delightfully sweet disposition.

  19. Mr. Brown's residence, which is delightfully situated on the shore of a lake, is at once the court house and the post office, besides being the general emporium and magnate of Humboldt business and society.

  20. Delightfully crisp and clear," he said by way of introduction, stopping at her box.

  21. He laughed with deep delight at her thrust, for the warm youth in him did not ask for pointed wit on the part of a young woman so attractive and with a manner so delightfully provoking.

  22. His gravity was broken on the instant, and his laughter was certainly delightfully fresh.

  23. Ismid is a large town most delightfully situated on the declivity of the mountain bordering on the branch of the sea, that forms its deep and beautiful gulph.

  24. We began our journey by a most charming moonlight; and the sky was delightfully serene.

  25. The village and the surrounding territory are delightfully watered by a river, which, issuing from between an Eastern and a Western chain of mountains, flows through a very steep channel, (in a N.

  26. The mountains to the Northward were covered with snow, and still presented a winter to us, although the weather on the plain was delightfully serene and mild.

  27. It is a delightfully old-fashioned house, having much oak timber, carved and black, on the front, and the motor enters under an overhanging archway into a courtyard shaded by an immemorial creeper.

  28. Those pergolas, covering a wide avenue, are delightfully solid, their pillars united at the top by stout timbers of cambered oak, sound enough to stand for centuries.

  29. At the east end of the walk we reached a barrier of oak palings, delightfully weathered, and in the palings in due course a gate, which led us to the haven where we would be.

  30. In that ardent noontide glow, however, Pierre no longer beheld the pure ethereal Rome which had met his eyes on the morning of his arrival in the delightfully soft radiance of the rising sun.

  31. Yes, they smell delightfully sweet; but it is from you, Marie, that the perfume now ascends, as though the roses were budding from your hair.

  32. Some child who could not be seen must also have been playing close by, for now and again a soft laugh could be heard ascending in the warm air which was so delightfully calm.

  33. And withal the atmosphere was delightfully balmy, and the narrow strip of sky between the heavy, rusty mansions displayed an infinite azure purity.

  34. The little Wests spent hours and hours making people and villages of clay—for there was a most delightfully damp bank by the brookside, where the clay seemed made for young artists.

  35. And how delightfully scarey they were, when made into Jack O’Lanterns!

  36. I shall have to learn; and how delightfully exciting it all is!

  37. The bath was a future possibility and the pie a delightfully present one.

  38. Ted brushed by him into the bedroom, and changed into his dress suit, his mind delightfully full of his lovely raiment and the queen of the town belles he had persuaded to accompany him.

  39. Ted asked with biting sarcasm, delightfully oblivious of the fact that he was wearing evening clothes for the first time.

  40. Here, strange to say, without salt soil or more water than the average garden receives from showers and hose, this handsomest of our wild flowers soon makes itself delightfully at home under cultivation.

  41. There is little use trying to coax this shyest of sylvan flowers into our gardens where other members of its family, rhododendrons, laurels, and azaleas make themselves delightfully at home.

  42. Soon the brilliant idea of biting a hole through each spur flashed through her little brain, and the first experiment proving delightfully successful, she proceeded to bite holes through other flowers without first trying to suck them.

  43. The day was delightfully cool and bright.

  44. A fugitive epistle by Scarron, delightfully turned, is too long to be quoted here, nor can I pause to cite the rondeau which the Duchess of Maine addressed to her favourite.

  45. The evening was delightfully fresh, even rather chill, rendering a clear crackling fire pleasant to sit and think or chat over.

  46. In the very nick of time we luckily discover a warning label, and are thankful we have not become for the day men of mark; for the bright green seat, so delightfully clean and pretty and enticing, has just been repainted.

  47. The stockings bulged most delightfully in the dining-room when they trooped down to breakfast on Christmas morning.

  48. Tess and Dot could scarcely eat, their eyes were so fixed upon the delightfully knobby bundles piled under each of their stockings on the hearth.


  49. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "delightfully" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
    Other words:
    delightfully; exquisitely; nice