The scene of their capture is a small masterwork of cross-cultural bewilderment, as the voyagers look out the window of the train and observe with delight the lines of colorfully costumed locals, riding horses and camels, that emerge above and along the sandy hills until Lady Windermere informs them that the groups appear arrayed rather for battle.
I observe with delight that alongside the hi-tech electronic maps, supplemented by radar, is a rather marvellous old-fashioned chart, complete with ornate versions of the flags of the countries bordering the Black Sea - Turkey, Romania, Bulgaria, Ukraine - and now, in Crimean - Russia.
I observed with special delight as a watchmaker inserted a balance wheel into a new watch, and it came to life for the first time.
And his supporters have been observing this rapprochement with delight.
"This was a scholarly adventure of the best possible sort, and as adviser I observed and participated with delight," said Brooks, who also advised Chow on her junior paper on the French novelist Nathalie Sarraute.
The stanza that refers to the Jamaican sprinter reads, in its English translation: "They will observe with rapt delight/ the archer draw his bowstring tight,/ the skillful rider guide her horse,/ and lightning bolt around the course".
They went wild with delight.
She squeals with delight.
Reiko laughed with delight.
Still, the kids squealed with delight.
Awestricken visitors peered at them with delight.
