Sentence examples for delightful old from inspiring English sources

Sir Patrick remembers her as "a delightful old girl — mad about owls and tennis".

"I've organized life for a delightful old age," Henry often said, with a gesture that included his young wife.

This pretty, 90% Albanian city in Montenegro has a delightful old town centre, full of fountains.

We have cocktails at 8, myself and my friend and the assorted delightful old trouts.

Sir Patrick remembers her as "a delightful old girl mad about owls and tennis".

"She is a delightful old woman," said Lars Korschen, the owner of the nearby Peponi Hotel.

The choreographers include Guta Hedewig, Elise Knudson, Tiffany Mills, Richard Daniels, Fiona Marcotti, Paul Matteson, Jill Sigman, Heidi Latsky, Gus Solomons Jr. and Linda Tarnay, and those delightful old-timers Stuart Hodes and Alice Teirstein.

Now, though, I'm assailed by an embarrassment of riches: Simon Hopkinson's The Good Cook, Felicity Cloake's Perfect (delightful old-fashioned cover, plus properly practical contents), Barrafina (possibly the best Spanish cookbook ever) and, last but definitely not least, the Bocca Cookbook by Jacob Kenedy (home of the above stuffed olives).

In the UK a lovely example of a delightful older female couple is in John Boyne's The Terrible Thing That Happened to Barnaby Brocket.

And what a delightful little old fashioned shuffling state of the art midfielder he remains, a player whose strolling style seems in its final bloom to resemble almost a parody of modern day athleticism.

It is a delightful century-old Portuguese house on the edge of the mainly Catholic town of Aldona, 10 miles from Vagator.