Word: delightfully
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...numerous of Cleland's work are borders and title pages in the Renaissance spirit-filigrees of twining tendrils, urns, cherubs, plaques, a gay, lacy profusion of Italianate ornament. Of these his book is full, together with title pages, vignettes, elaborate initials, bookplates, watercolors. It is a book to delight lovers of meticulous, traditional beauty...
...alarm of British diehards and the delight of U. S. seadogs, several British periodicals picked up this suggestion and pressed it editorially. Britain's "bases" at Bermuda, Nassau, Jamaica, Trinidad and Barbados constitute moral if not actually military threats to the Panama Canal...
...more intense feeling ever can be. Popular recognition of the value of tutorial work has become far too general among Harvard men for them to bother with any very vigorous attack upon a society which still places its emphasis upon a form of effort which has always been the delight of a certain serious sort of adolescent mind...
...rung in the movie world. Throughout the whole narration one is struck with the romance of his life. Hart surely saw life through colored glasses and lived it as he saw it. He has retained to the present time that same feeling that makes a small boy delight in the circus, and a great deal of the charm of the volume is due to this fact...
...book is one which any normal boy of thirteen would delight in, its appeal to an older and more mature person is undoubtedly limited...