...They must not suppose that these gardens are made for flowers; or that they are places of amusement, in which they can spend their time in botanical researches and delights...
Thomas Clarkson 「An Essay on the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Particularly the African」
...In consequence the poor man tasted the delights of a Boer gaol for a whole night, and, worst indignity of all, had for companions two criminals and a crowd of dirty Kaffirs...
Lady Sarah Wilson 「South African Memories」
... The Bákele verb delights in the active voice, and will avoid the passive even by a considerable circumlocution...
Richard F. Burton 「Two Trips to Gorilla Land and the Cataracts of the Congo Volume 1」
...There are few things an African hunter delights in more than sitting round a blazing fire at night with a pipe in his mouth, and narrating for the hundredth time, perhaps, his various exploits...
W.H.G. Kingston 「The Two Supercargoes」
...It delights in open places,where it can move freely about on the ground; and is partial to courtyards,clean garden-walks, &c...
P. L. Sclater 「Argentine Ornithology, Volume I (of 2)」
...How many cases havehappened before the danger was discovered is of course only a matter ofconjecture, as few would suspect the cause to come from the lovely plantthat so delights the eye...
Harrison Weir 「Our Cats and All About Them」
...On thecontrary, it rather delights in the temperate zones, and can evidentlyonly be raised to its highest point of excellence in the countries ofthe vine...
Ambrose Blacklock 「A Treatise on Sheep:」
...Afterthe feast, a brief and primitive wooing; after the wooing, the feast; insuch delights the life of the Gardener passes...
J. H. Fabre Bernard Miall 「Social Life in the Insect World」
... We, the smaller ones, in addition to the comfort of studying with our mouths full, had every now and then two other delights, which were quite as good as cracking nuts...
J. Henri Fabre Alexander Teixeira de Mattos 「The Life of the Fly」
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