Bloketu, on the other hand, seemed to take a malicious and peculiar delight in doing so.

Certainly he has avoided the canonists, although over the decades such near canonical pronouncers as the critic Benjamin DeMott and the novelist Anne Tyler have registered the peculiar delight he gives them.

Of all the patients, the men took a peculiar delight in annoying Bertrand.

His first sermon after he was licensed was preached for the Rev. John McLeod Campbell, who heard him 'with very peculiar delight.'

The earl himself 'we children all loved', remembering that their peculiar delight 'as a small child was to sit on his knee and inspect his watch, which could open and shut, and chief novelty of all in my eyes, could chime!'

He drank in the gentle, as if dreamy sound with a consciousness of peculiar delight of something warming his breast like a draught of generous wine.

Ugandans take a peculiar delight in watching local men throw themselves into the top of the falls with nothing more than a plastic jerry can, sealed with an avocado, to keep them alive.

Man has always known that his lot upon this earth is misery, and he has, until a split second ago in geological time, understood that there must be beings beyond his ken who take peculiar delight in torturing him.

Perhaps because his own motor mechanism was so faulty he took a peculiar delight in clever and smooth-running machinery.

Q seemed to take peculiar delight in afflicting him.