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1  It was delightful to watch him.
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2  They made a delightful contrast.
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3  The mere danger gave me a sense of delight.
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4  Yes, there were delightful things in store for him.
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5  The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.
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6  Of course, it is sudden--all really delightful things are.
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7  Good-bye, Lord Henry, you are quite delightful and dreadfully demoralizing.
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8  The only artists I have ever known who are personally delightful are bad artists.
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9  I have never seen you really and absolutely angry, but I can fancy how delightful you looked.
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10  Now and then, however, he is horribly thoughtless, and seems to take a real delight in giving me pain.
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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  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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13  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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14  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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15  The fantastic character of these instruments fascinated him, and he felt a curious delight in the thought that art, like Nature, has her monsters, things of bestial shape and with hideous voices.
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16  It is rather horrid of me, as he has sent me my portrait in the most wonderful frame, specially designed by himself, and, though I am a little jealous of the picture for being a whole month younger than I am, I must admit that I delight in it.
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17  He would examine with minute care, and sometimes with a monstrous and terrible delight, the hideous lines that seared the wrinkling forehead or crawled around the heavy sensual mouth, wondering sometimes which were the more horrible, the signs of sin or the signs of age.
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