Lexicographical Neighbors of Delectating
Literary usage of Delectating
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine by Charles Fenno Hoffman, Timothy Flint, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew (1835)
"... or mayhap, delectating my palate with gathered chesnuts, and my ear with their
harmony, as they pattered on the leaves from the lofty burrs : touching ..."
2. Letters from the Forty-fourth Regiment M.V.M.: A Record of the Experience of by Zenas T. Haines (1863)
"... a little dampened by the unexpected order, which many of us received while
delectating ourselves at the tables spread for us by the natives of Plymouth. ..."
3. The New Sporting Magazine (1840)
"In another case, when we were delectating in the midst of an Eden of wild fruits
and flowers, where everything breathed poetry and ethereality, ..."
4. Thirteen Months in the Rebel Army: Being a Narrative of Personal Adventures by William G. Stevenson (1862)
"... as they regarded it, that they brought a piano into my ward, and the young
ladies vied with each other in delectating us with the Marseillaise, Dixie, ..."
5. Hours in My Garden, and Other Nature-sketches. by Alexander Hay Japp (1893)
"... and in one corner there is a pond, exquisitely closed in with chestnuts and
other trees, in which a duck will be seen now and then delectating itself. ..."
6. Rogers and His Contemporaries by Peter William Clayden (1889)
"... Rogers was thus delectating himself in anticipation with R—'s execution, Mrs.
Grote, by whose side I was sitting on a low stool, quietly unfolded ..."
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