In fact he seemed delighted to get rid of them.

I knew I was slaughtering it, but everyone seemed delighted that I was making the attempt.

The band seemed surprised and delighted by their applause.

She delighted in giving provocative interviews and seemed to have an opinion on everything.

Although many in Scotland were delighted it soon became clear to the directors of the Darien company that Mackenzie's charges were not supported by any kind of valid proof and it seemed that the men would be released.

' Ishida was startled and drew away a little, but he seemed delighted with it all ..."

The match seemed to be going well when Bill Bowes unexpectedly bowled the returning Bradman first ball in the first innings ; Jardine was seen to be so delighted that he had clasped his hands above his head and performed a " war dance ".

Born in Egypt to Mohamed Zaki Khadr and Munira Osman, Khadr later delighted in telling how his father had been asked by Munira's father to investigate a potential suitor, and had reported back that the man seemed unsuitable.

At about fourteen he began to read extensively on his own account, and in his leisure hours he studied botany, collected plants and flowers, and was delighted at the appearance of " a beautiful green snake about a yard long, which on the fine Sabbath mornings about ten o ' clock seemed to expect me at the top of Primrose Lane.

If you suppose, sir, that I have published sentiments contrary to those generally held in this community, because I delighted in differing from them, or in occasioning a disturbance, you have entirely misapprehended me.

He stroked the hens and they responded with delighted clucks, he gobbled with the turkeys and they at once were all attention, he quacked with the ducks, and cackled with a pair of exceedingly flattered geese.

`` I don't mind at all '', he said, delighted with her attention.

* Lisa Simpson is delighted at the sight of a rack with Tintin and Asterix comics in a comic book store, depicted in The Simpsons episode " Husbands and Knives ".

Totoro is delighted at both the shelter and the sounds made upon it by falling raindrops.

In a speech delivered at Salem, Mass., on January 6, 1860, to raise money for the families of the executed abolitionist John Brown and his followers, Ralph Waldo Emerson calls Brown an example of true chivalry, which consists not in noble birth but in helping the weak and defenseless and declares that " Walter Scott would have delighted to draw his picture and trace his adventurous career ".

Furthermore, Plutarch reports that at the next Olympic Games: " Themistocles entered the stadium, the audience neglected the contestants all day long to gaze on him, and pointed him out with admiring applause to visiting strangers, so that he too was delighted, and confessed to his friends that he was now reaping in full measure the harvest of his toils in behalf of Hellas.

Wilson was delighted with the adaptation, saying: " I was thunderstruck at what a magnificent job they did in capturing the exact tone and mixture of fantasy and reality in the book.

Harvey's father rewards Captain Troop by hiring his son, Dan, to work on his prestigious tea clipper fleet, and is delighted at his son's new maturity and their relationship dramatically improves even as Harvey decides to begin his career with his father's shipping lines.

Even though she had already worked in the movies ( she had sung briefly in the 1942 Abbott and Costello film Ride ' Em Cowboy ), she was " delighted " when Norman Granz negotiated the role for her, and, " at the time .... considered her role in the Warner Brothers movie the biggest thing ever to have happened to her.

While many of The Fulton's regulars are Lancaster County natives who are delighted at the chance to return home to perform, nearly all quickly fall in love with the " Grand Old Lady " and her charm.

Allen delighted in this proliferation of groups and considered his role at this time to be that of an instigator, travelling around the world leaving active Gong-related bands in his wake.

Sarah joined him in February 1713, and was delighted when on reaching Frankfurt in the middle of May to see that the troops under Eugene's command paid her lord'all the respects as if he had been at his old post '.

Before the closing of the theatres, all female roles had been played by boys, and the predominantly male audiences of the 1660s and 1670s were curious, censorious, and delighted at the novelty of seeing real women engage in risqué repartee and take part in physical seduction scenes.

Reactions to the child were mixed: the baby's grandfather, Duke Philip the Good, was unimpressed, and " chose not to attend the as it was only for a girl "; the grandmother, Isabella of Portugal, was simply delighted at the birth of a granddaughter.

This subject gave Sallust the opportunity of showing off his rhetoric at the expense of the old Roman aristocracy, whose degeneracy he delighted to paint in the blackest colours.

Sandwich had a personal vendetta against Wilkes that stemmed in large part from embarrassment caused by a prank of Wilkes involving the Earl at one of the Hellfire Club's meetings ; he was delighted at the chance for revenge.

The 1985 Doctor Who serial " Vengeance on Varos " was set within the confines of a ' Punishment Dome ' where the repellent alien delegate Sil was delighted to learn that recordings of real life executions, dismemberments, drownings, acid baths and other ' delights ' were being peddled to the apathetic population at large to keep them both docile and entertained.

Other examples of his keyboard flamboyance are found in A Night at the Opera ( 1935 ), wherein he plays the piano for a group of delighted children, and A Night in Casablanca ( 1946 ), where he plays a rendetion of " Roll Out the Barrel ".

The first of these, " Alexander and the Family of Darius ," so delighted Louis XIV that he at once ennobled Le Brun ( December, 1662 ), who was also created Premier Peintre du Roi ( First Painter to His Majesty ) with a pension of 12, 000 livres, the same amount as he had yearly received in the service of the magnificent Fouquet.

Mark Grew failed to lift the club back into the play-offs, though at the end of the season supporters were delighted to learn that Micky Adams would be returning as manager.

The English bishops were delighted to find that the great French scholar was a ready-made Anglican, who had arrived, by independent study of the Fathers, at the very via media ( middle way ) between Puritanism and Catholicism which was becoming the fashion in the English Church.

The two men met, and according to Tallmadge, " Emerson was delighted to find at the end of his career the prophet-naturalist he had called for so long ago.

Howard was delighted at their improvement, as he longed for Seabiscuit to race again, but was extremely worried about Pollard, as his leg was still fragile.

During the year that followed, Dick co-operated whole-heartedly with the dentist and was delighted with the final result achieved -- an upper row of strong straight teeth that completely changed his facial appearance.

I was delighted with Paula Prentiss' comedy performance, which was as fresh and unstilted as one's highest hopes might ask.

But it could also be popular with the barbarian prisoners, who were often delighted by the prospect of a land grant within the empire.

In her journal for Christmas Eve 1832, the delighted 13-year-old princess wrote, " After dinner … we then went into the drawing-room near the dining-room … There were two large round tables on which were placed two trees hung with lights and sugar ornaments.

He was delighted with the enthusiasm of a born casuist in curious puzzles of right and wrong, and in devising a conflict between the generalities of ethics and the conditions of an ingeniously contrived practical dilemma.

When he rewards their work with little clothes, they are so delighted, that they run away and are never seen again.

The composer was delighted with it, and Trial by Jury was composed in a matter of weeks.

He was described as having been " delighted to be called the mistress, the wife, the queen of Hierocles " and was said to have offered vast sums of money to any physician who could equip him with female genitalia.

The project took one year and exceeded its budget, but Zeckendorf was delighted with the results.

Hutton hit on a variety of ideas to explain the rock formations he saw around him, but according to Playfair he " was in no haste to publish his theory ; for he was one of those who are much more delighted with the contemplation of truth, than with the praise of having discovered it ”.

When Grobba reported that the Iraqis as Arab nationalists saw the British and the Jews as their enemies and wished to ally themselves with Germany against their common foes, Ribbentrop was delighted and become obsessed with the idea of an Iraqi-German alliance.

Goring was delighted with the performance.

Midas recognized him and treated him hospitably, entertaining him for ten days and nights with politeness, while Silenus delighted Midas and his friends with stories and songs.

: Then arose the famous murderer, Robert Hood, as well as Little John, together with their accomplices from among the disinherited, whom the foolish populace are so inordinately fond of celebrating both in tragedies and comedies, and about whom they are delighted to hear the jesters and minstrels sing above all other ballads.