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As the big seaman deftly worked with iron hook and right hand, he spun yarns for the delectation of his mates.
As we have seen, the quartet, in the time of which we write, was universally in use at informal gatherings for the delectation of friends in the privacy of the home, and was not intended for concert use.
He lives by choice in the wildest country, like his skin-clad ancestors, demanding only that there be game and foxes and fish for his delectation.
She came home to me, however, about an hour and a half after we were home, to my great delectation.
They write one set of memoirs for the public, and another set for their own delectation.
Courtship had a special place in the world of the court, both as an institution and as an object of speculation and delectation.
Bankim demonstrated that many of the delectations of verse writing could be captured in imaginative prose.
I sent him for his private delectation some of the choicer specimens of this issue which had come into my hands from the bank.
We want the whole land of the country to be used economically, not to be kept for the delectation of exceptionally rich persons.
These details are not revealed for our delectation.
The law is not a game which is expensively played by lawyers for their own delectation and benefit.
It has been made clear that the millers are not in business for their own personal delectation.
No doubt that is treated as a trivial matter, but it imposed additional costs on every motorist, to the pleasure and delectation of tyre manufacturers, of between £50 and £1,000.
Some few years ago the young ladies, for our delectation, had their hair cut short—they were shingled; and there has been a most abnormal boom amongst the barbering profession.
Whether it gave delectation to the bus driver at the wheel or to the conductor upstairs perhaps, on some private occasion, my noble friend will enlighten me.
The medieval church taught that morose delectation was a sin.
His countryside only exists as spectacle, for the delectation of people with motor cars.
