Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...which the honest hero is pictured as coming home after shouting his familiar cry since early morn, and listening to the never-failing echo, and as he enters the room, he bends over the baby's crib, and whispers "charco' " in the little ear. The youngster cooing with delight, tosses up his arms, and echoes "harko' " just as the hills had been doing all day long. Now, why cannot one of our homely poets immortalize a scene in the organ-grinder's life? Let him be pictured coming into his home, chinking the coin in his pockets...
FROM the enthusiasm manifested at the meeting of the Art Club on last Thursday week we feel confident that the Club is now based upon a footing to insure it a more lasting and creditable existence than it has yet enjoyed. All expressed delight with the rich collection of works on art placed at the disposal of the Club by the generosity of Professor Norton and one or two other gentlemen...
LAST Wednesday morning my old door-mat disappeared. The goody's one eye twinkled with malicious delight as she informed me of my loss. She added, by way of consolation, "Bad 'cess to it! 'T was always a thrippin' me up." And I have no doubt the majority of the entry would have indorsed her sentiments, if not her brogue; for the mat, although by no means a complete hole, was yet very perfect in its way, and had acquired many of the properties that are supposed to be peculiar to traps. One rent in particular seemed...
...know one room in college that it is a delight to enter, because a certain discordant harmony exists in it that shows innate refinement. This room approaches more nearly than any other I am acquainted with, my idea of a tasteful, and at the same time thoroughly comfortable, study. Every one is struck with it, and exclaims, "How well you are fixed up!" But the conclusion is drawn that it must needs be very costly; yet there is nothing extravagant in it: on the contrary, the owner assures me that the amount he laid out is less than is spent...
Wonder and that delight which comes from truth...