delight,

    Or that inert that son's vigour, amort to delight,

Poems and Fragments 2006

‘If you have changed at all, my love, since we parted,’ said Martin at length, as he looked upon her with a proud delight,

The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit 2006

    Or that inert that son's vigour, amort to delight,

Poems and Fragments 2006

“Everything,” said R. to himself, in one of those endless conversations with himself which were his chief delight,

Kangaroo 2004

Nikolay Parfenovitch, in a voice of almost pathetic delight,

The Brothers Karamazov 2003

Full of seeming confusion, yet regular and systematic, their wild gesticulations, and frantic distortions of body are calculated rather to terrify, than delight,

The Settlement at Port Jackson 2003

It had always happened before that Miss Hoole found them and pointed them out to her; but this time she found a big one quite of herself, and there was a general scream of delight,

Anna Karenina 2003

Then she was in great distress, and could not tell; but at last she remembered the necklace which she had given to the animals, and she sought for and found her little golden clasp on the lion, and she cried in her delight,

Household Tales 2003

‘Fair star of life and love,’ I cried, ‘my soul’s delight,

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 2003

War is the statesman's game, the priest's delight,

Morton, Topoi of 'Blood and Gold' in Mary and Percy Shelley 1997