Let me die to the sounds of the delicious music. [ Mirabeau ]
No grief so soft, no pain so sweet, as love's delicious melancholy. [ Mrs. Osgood ]
These things are at once the cause and food of this delicious malady. [ Ovid ]
O bed! O bed! delicious bed! That heaven upon earth to the weary head. [ Hood ]
I value this delicious home-feeling as one of the choicest gifts a parent can bestow. [ Washington Irving ]
No friendship is so cordial or so delicious as that of girl for girl; no hatred so intense and immovable as that of woman for woman. [ Landor ]
We read of a fountain in Arabia upon whose basin is inscribed, Drink, and away;
but how delicious is that hasty draught, and how long and brightly the thought of its transient refreshment dwells in the memory. [ Tuckerman ]
'Tis the merry nightingale that crowds and hurries and precipitates, with fast thick warble, his delicious notes, as he were fearful that an April night would be too short for him to utter forth his love-chant, and disburden his full soul of all its music. [ Coleridge ]
It is a delicious moment, certainly, that of being well nestled in bed, and feeling that you shall drop gently to sleep. The good is to come, not past; the limbs have just been tired enough to render the remaining in one posture delightful; the labor of the day is gone. [ Leigh Hunt ]
Maggie and Stephen were in that stage of courtship which makes the most exquisite moment of youth, the freshest blossom-time of passion, - when each is sure of the other's love, but no formal declaration has been made, and all is mutual divination, exalting the most trivial words, the lightest gestures, into thrills delicate and delicious as wafted jasmine scent. [ George Eliot ]