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1  It was delightful to watch him.
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2  Our host is a delightful topic.
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3  They made a delightful contrast.
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4  You are much too delightful to do that.
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5  Yes, there were delightful things in store for him.
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6  The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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7  Of course, it is sudden--all really delightful things are.
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8  Good-bye, Lord Henry, you are quite delightful and dreadfully demoralizing.
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9  The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists.
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10  I have never seen you really and absolutely angry, but I can fancy how delightful you looked.
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11  If a personality fascinates me, whatever mode of expression that personality selects is absolutely delightful to me.
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12  He remembered the autumn that he had passed there, and a wonderful love that had stirred him to mad delightful follies.
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13  You are not listening to a word I am saying, Jim," cried Sibyl, "and I am making the most delightful plans for your future.
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14  A bishop keeps on saying at the age of eighty what he was told to say when he was a boy of eighteen, and as a natural consequence he always looks absolutely delightful.
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15  The man had to touch him twice on the shoulder before he woke, and as he opened his eyes a faint smile passed across his lips, as though he had been lost in some delightful dream.
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16  It should have the dignity of a ceremony, as well as its unreality, and should combine the insincere character of a romantic play with the wit and beauty that make such plays delightful to us.
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17  The keen aromatic air, the brown and red lights that glimmered in the wood, the hoarse cries of the beaters ringing out from time to time, and the sharp snaps of the guns that followed, fascinated him and filled him with a sense of delightful freedom.
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