Word: delightfully
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...fascinated crowd waited the defiant climax when he should rise to utter swift-footed words. He walked to the front of the dais. Cheers resounded. He stretched forth his hand in benediction. He put his black-gloved finger to his lips, signifying they were sealed. He beamed with childish delight, returned to his seat...
...else washing. He also went to Richon L'Zion, one of the oldest modern settlements of Jews, to Dilber and other more re- cent Jewish settlements. Everywhere the veteran Earl was received in manifest goodwill. Arabs vowed he must be a Jew to receive such welcomes and to delight in receiving them...
...gathp with delight...
...Stewart has lived abroad for some time and he describes the production of one of his books there as follows: "In the middle of October he began to feel strangely uneasy and as his condition grew steadily worse, he consulted an authority and learned to his surprise and delight that he was going to have another book. . . . He prayed with all his heart that it might be a novel, for he had never had a novel although he had wanted one all his life. But early in February, 1923, Mr. Stewart discovered that the 'little stranger' was to be another...
...tramp steamer careened across the Indian Ocean shearing spray off her bows, and the dawn came up like thunder.... And on the hard wooden chairs sat hundreds of boys, young barbarians, fascinated, spellbound, many if not most of them realizing, perhaps for the first time in their lives the delight of great literature, the majesty of the English tongue and the might of the human imagination...