When they sat down on the grass with Captain curled at their feet, Soot solemnly listening on a tree and Nut and Shell nosing about close to them, it seemed to Mary that it would be scarcely bearable to leave such delightfulness, but when she began to tell her story somehow the look in Dickon's funny face gradually changed her mind.
"The Secret Garden"
Frances Hodgson Burnett
One quickly feels the charm of the place; it has its own delightfulness, apart from the season and its amusements.
"A Midsummer Drive Through The Pyrenees"
Edwin Asa Dix
The composition I believe is very good, but no more of delightfulness to the eare or understanding but what is very ordinary.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke