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Sherbet—originally a chilled Iranian drink—was introduced to Italy in the seventeenth century by way of the empire, and soon consumers in France and England were delighting in it as people do today.

From Textbooks • Dec. 14, 2022

But with no way to assess which sorts of posts were delighting people and which were boring, offending, or confusing them, the engineers were essentially throwing darts. 

From Slate • Jan. 3, 2016

In the years before 1914, when the first plays of Somerset Maugham were delighting London with their brilliance, Knox already had a reputation for his wit and his satires against watery faith and confused thought.

From Time Magazine Archive

During these years everything seems to have struck his attention, as if he were delighting in the many facets of policy and power suddenly available to him.

From Time Magazine Archive

But Hodder and Vizetelly agree in fathering it on Blanchard's son, Sidney, at the time when Gilbert à Beckett's "Comic Blackstone" and comic histories were delighting all true connoisseurs of burlesque.

From The History of "Punch" by Spielmann, M. H. (Marion Harry)