Word: delightfully
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...sets the eyes twinkling with rapturous delight...
WHAT IS A KISS?Scientifically considered, a hearty kiss resembles in principle nothing so much as the action by which the lump-sucker fish attaches itself to a stone, or that of the leather "suckers" with which urchins delight to lift pebbles. The lips of the kisser are pressed against those of the kissee, a slight exhaustion of air is caused by a "drawing" action on the part of the agent active, and the two actors in the farce are temporarily attached to each other by the pressure of the external air. The kisser ceases to exhaust the air within...
Across ambrosial delight...
...hear her talked about was a delight. He even experienced a sort of exultation in hearing her dispraised. For him alone it was reserved to sound the depth of that nature; others might think there were defects; but he alone could appreciate how even these were harmonious and beautiful to a really kindred soul. He wrapped himself up in a sort of mosquito netting of melancholy, that afforded him a deep satisfaction. In fact, he was in clover, and enjoyed it as would any other of his (y)ears...
AGAIN comes up the question of the Freshman theatre party; and, with the Advocate, we are heartily opposed to the recurrence of that senseless folly. When first they became the custom, these theatre parties were merely a manifestation of the exhuberant delight of a lot of schoolboys at breaking away from the apron-strings. But nowadays Freshman classes are composed of men so much older and more mature in every way, that they would scorn such an explanation of their acts. They keep up the custom, not because they actually get much enjoyment from its observance - for we believe that...