All four works are short (the longest lasting just 13 minutes): a quality that should, along with the music's delightfulness, recommend them to performers.

She thought of the marvellous beauty of skin, and all the delightfulness of living texture.

What a delightfulness to choose from!

This bright side went on brightening more and more every day: in a very little while it was become almost all sunshine and delightfulness.

For sheer delightfulness and bliss.

As she led him, she hoped that his stench would not entice a tiddler or Mommy to investigate his delightfulness.

Thomas Worthington recorded that he chose Adena as the name for his estate because it referred to "places remarkable for the delightfulness of their situation."

A young prince in northern India meets and falls deeply in love with "a young maiden of indescribable beauty and delightfulness."

The burdock never grows alone, but where there grows one there always grow several: it is a great delight, and all this delightfulness is snails' food.

It was a prodigious trip, but delightful, of course, through the Rockies and the Black Hills and the mighty sweep of the Great Plains to civilization and the Missouri border - where the railroading began and the delightfulness ended.

"We dance and sing about the Maypole in Cheapside; we play in the sand, each covering his neighbour up; and times we make mud pastry--oh the lovely mud, it hath not its like for delightfulness in all the world!

If Peter Gibbs has learned one thing in his years as a weather presenter for the British Broadcasting Corporation, it is that the inherent delightfulness of sunshine is by no means a matter of faith here in the land of rain and gloom.

Disney, through "great effort and...large sums of money," had created characters whose "image of innocent delightfulness [...] are known and loved by people all over the world, particularly children" and that the defendants' efforts to "disparage and ridicule" these characters threatened to destroy Disney's business.

Achilles-still carrying his beloved but dead Amazon queen, Penthe-silea-had quantum teleported to the home of his captive, Hephaestus, god of fire, chief Artificer to all the gods, husband of Aglaia, also known as Charis-the "delightfulness of art," one of the loveliest of Graces.