From all the windows the candles were gleaming, and it smelt so
deliciously of roast goose, for you know it was New Year's Eve; yes, of that she thought.
"Oh, la!" replied the oak bitingly, "how
deliciously cosy it is to stand here buttoned to the neck and watch you poor naked creatures shivering!"
The German humorous papers are beautifully printed upon fine paper, and the illustrations are finely drawn, finely engraved, and are not vapidly funny, but
deliciously so.
More nebulous were the memories of those early mornings when she had paused in the midst of getting breakfast to sniff in the clover-laden air and think how wonderful it would be if only she needn't stay in the hot, stuffy kitchen but could be free to call Bill and go picnicking or loaf
deliciously under one of the big elms.
He was
deliciously flattered to discover that Miss Wilkinson was in love with him: she told him so in English, and she told him so in French.
'I am done with him,' said James (wiping his cane with his cambric handkerchief), and his sword clattered
deliciously (I cannot think this was accidental), which made my mother sigh.
Such a
deliciously creepy song it was, in which they pretended to be frightened at their own shadows, little witting that so soon shadows would close in upon them, from whom they would shrink in real fear.
When next I saw them, they were gazing greedily into the window of the sixpenny-halfpenny shop, which is one of the most
deliciously dramatic spots in London.
Instead of which she was hopelessly and
deliciously feminine.
Button-Bright was glad the Candy Man stayed in the Throne Room, because the boy thought this guest smelled
deliciously of wintergreen and maple sugar.
He found himself lying upon a bed
deliciously soft, with lace-edged sheets and lavender-perfumed bed hangings.
The instant his lips came together they curved into a blissfully sleepy smile, and with that smile he slowly and
deliciously rolled back again.