He bounced exuberantly on the sagging bed and was even more delighted when Madame Lalaurie -- after closing the door -- showed the slave that the bed was designed for something other than slumber.

Harriet was just as delighted.

I was delighted to make that personal contact in such trying and unusual circumstances.

He was delighted to learn that the Post Office Department is now going to expand this service to deliver mail from Representatives in Congress to their constituents without the use of stamps, names, addresses or even zone numbers.

He was delighted to see them so happy.

The ladies were delighted and Jean Jacques was applauded.

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.

She was not present yesterday, however, to enjoy the music or watch the faces of the delighted audience.

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

To both persons and ideas he brought the same delighted interest, the same open-minded relish for what was unique in each, the same discriminating sensibility and quicksilver intelligence, the same gallantry of judgment.

He stepped out into the hall, was delighted to encounter a water brother.

Albert, who was a man of great strength and considerable skill in feats of arms, delighted in tournaments and knightly exercises.

Patkin's appearance in the coaching box was the sort of promotional stunt that delighted fans but infuriated the American League front office.

In 1750 an elaborate prospectus announced the project to a delighted public, and in 1751 the first volume was published.

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.

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

But the Hollywood press, unaccustomed to candor, was delighted.

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.

He was especially attracted by John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress, and he delighted in reading history.

He delighted in the folklore of this remote district, and became, as he himself tells us, a ‘ tale-teller .’ The ‘ applause of my companions ,’ he says, ‘ was my recompense for punishments incurred for being idle .’ These conditions developed a love of poetry and the composition of verses and ballads.

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

It must have hurt her even to walk, for the sole was completely off her left foot and Morgan saw that it was bruised and bleeding.

I was at once disappointed, although just what I had expected him to look like I could not have explained.

The only thing which would have attracted attention was that two wore the uniform of prison guards, three the striped suits of convicts.

It was there that she would have to enact her renunciation, beg forgiveness.

He was a man, those neighbors testified later, who didn't have a friend in the world.

A man like Jess would want to have a ready means of escape in case it was needed.

`` Gyp Carmer couldn't have known about Colcord's money unless he was told -- and who else would have told him ''??

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

They were married over the week-end, though he was easily sixty and she could not have been even thirty.

Her form was silhouetted and with the strong light I could see the outlines of her body, a body that an artist or anyone else would have admired.

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

`` You have every right to be '', I replied gravely in the Manu dialect, but my attention was fixed on Brassnose, the biggest and strongest of us.

This was the worst thing I could have said.

He was very tanned -- big hands might have torn him from a Coca-Cola poster.

He was aware of her as a frightfully good-looking American WAC, a second lieutenant assigned to do the paper work, ( regardless of how important she might have thought she was ) in the Command offices, but that was all.

The marine was alone, for they were impatient people and by now would have vied to knock him from the tree.

One swallow was all he would have ; ;

Something was beginning to stir and come alive in her, too ( it may have been there for a good while, since she was twenty now ; ;

Jack walked off alone out the road in the searing midday sun, past Robert Allen's three-room, tarpapered house, toward the field where the other boys were playing ball, thinking of what he would do in order to make Miss Langford have him stay in after school -- because this was the day he had decided when he thought he saw the look in her eyes.

The only drawback now to the plan he'd decided on was that someone else might fail to do his work, too, and the teacher would have that person stay late along with Jack.