The comb was so thin that it seemed to melt in one's mouth, and the flavor had in it a "subtle deliciousness" clearly indicating its source.
"See America First"
Orville O. Hiestand
She felt washed, light, drowsy; cast aside her pillow; wound her arm up under her head; sighed out of deliciousness; slept.
"Star-Dust A Story of an American Girl"
Fannie Hurst
Before they were able to talk at all, in those happy days when parents make astounding assertions to other parents about the intelligence and certain future brilliancy of their offspring, and the other parents, however much they may pity such self-deception, can't contradict, because after all it just possibly may be so, the most foolish people occasionally producing geniuses,-in those happy days of undisturbed bright castle-building, the mother, who was English, of the two derelicts now huddled on the dank deck of the St. Luke, said to the father, who was German, "At any rate these two blessed little bundles of deliciousness"-she had one on each arm and was tickling their noses alternately with her eyelashes, and they were screaming for joy-"won't have to learn either German or English.
"Christopher and Columbus"
Countess Elizabeth Von Arnim