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But in their own way, they are just as delightful to have around.

They really are delightful people when you get to know them.

He is the second most delightful man in the world.

In fact, the end of the process was the most delightful part.

Delightful, so I have both of them to deal with.

How delightful to while away one last summer in his own land!

I could see the next few weeks were going to be delightful.

Sort of the way I felt about this delightful little book.

I did have a delightful time up there, most certainly.

It would mean another of these delightful days, if nothing else.

I see few people and it is delightful to talk to you.

Of course a little daughter is a delightful thing enough.

He could not believe that so delightful a thing had happened.

Or even delightful when they were happy in their work.

"Certainly nothing in the world is more delightful than being at the university," said the father.

Delightful to come back to a place where time seems to stand still.

And they turn out to be the most delightful people you will ever meet in your life.

We spent about 10 days here in early summer and it was delightful.

It was delightful to have a whole day to herself.

But, of course, it would be delightful if she took a fall.

It's one of the things that makes me so delightful.

It would be delightful to have hours of time all to herself.

He told them:- Not far off before you is a delightful town.

They will make a delightful addition to the right home.

"And I have delightful news for you to share with them."

Oh grateful and delightsome service of God, whereby man is made truly free and holy!

Delightsome simply!

Laurie's eyes followed her with pleasure, for she neither romped nor sauntered, but danced with spirit and grace, making the delightsome pastime what it should be.

Mormon 5:17 17 They were once a delightsome people, and they had Christ for their shepherd; yea, they were led even by God the Father.

Unlike the 1831 revelation, the 1830 version of the Book of Mormon does not specify that the Native Americans would become "white and delightsome" through plural marriage.

However, all future LDS Church printings of the Book of Mormon until 1981 continued from the second edition, saying the Lamanites would become "a white and delightsome people".

The LDS practice of raising Native children in Mormon homes as a means of turning them "white and delightsome" began a century earlier, during the earliest days of the Church.

The youngly delightsome frilles-in-pleyurs are now showen drawen, if bud one, or, if in florileague, drawens up consociately at the hinder sight of their commoner guardian.

This wording is comparable with 2 Nephi 30:5-6 in the 1830 edition of the Book of Mormon, which states that when Native Americans receive the gospel they will become a "white and a delightsome people."

In 1840, with the third edition of the Book of Mormon, the wording was changed to "a pure and a delightsome people" by Joseph Smith, Jr., who claimed to be the translator of the book.

As the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC redefined pop music for the masses upon the closing of the 1990s, 98 were also making girls scream and swoon with their darling good looks and delightsome harmonies.

Ezra Tilden, a soldier in the American Revolution, witnesses considerable suffering, then goes on to record a "very delightsome dream" in which he reaches a spacious and beautiful plain - heaven - where he speaks to angelic hosts.

For example, early editions of the Book of Mormon contained the passage: "[T]heir scales of darkness shall begin to fall from their eyes; and many generations shall not pass away among them, save they shall be a white and a delightsome people".

Viewing the Indians as benighted descendants of the original Israelite emigrants, the Mormons believed that they could redeem these Children of Israel, remake them into a "white and delightsome people," and incorporate them into God's Latter-day Kingdom.

Words of Mormon 1:8 8 And my prayer to God is concerning my brethren, that they may once again come to the knowledge of God, yea, the redemption of Christ; that they may once again be a delightsome people.

Hence I can reproduce them verbatim, with the bouquet they have retained through all the long years since they were penned in that autumnal orchard on the hill, with its fading leaves and frosted grasses, and the "mild, delightsome melancholy" of the late October day enfolding.

In 1591 his Second Fruits, to be gathered of Twelve Trees, of divers but delightsome Tastes to the Tongues of Italian and English men appeared, to which was annexed the Garden of Recreation, yielding six thousand Italian Proverbs (4to).

For behold, they had hardened their hearts against him, that they had become like unto a flint; wherefore, as they were white, and exceedingly fair and delightsome, that they might not be enticing unto my people, the Lord God did cause a skin of blackness to come upon them.

Polly looked carefully round to see that no fashionable eye beheld the awful deed, and finding all safe, settled her freight, and spun away down hill, feeling all over the delightsome excitement of swift motion which makes coasting such a favorite pastime with the more sensible portion of the child-world.

Richard Abanes contends that the church tries to hide past racial practices, citing the 1981 change in the Book of Mormon from saying the Lamanites would become "a white and a delightsome people" to "a pure and a delightsome people."

In 1981, the church published a new LDS edition of the Standard Works that changed a passage in The Book of Mormon that Lamanites (considered by many Latter-day Saints to be Native Americans) will "become white and delightsome" after accepting the gospel of Jesus Christ.