Sella had given a quiver of delighted terror, vowing that she wouldn't have the courage to ride a dragon.

Piemur shivered with delighted terror.

How I'd squeal in delighted terror, half believing her, half knowing that she teased me.

Jaxom shuddered with delighted terror.

Alex screamed with delighted terror as the world exploded.

Jessica, no idea what was happening, screamed in delighted terror.

"I have heard a theater full of 6-year-olds shriek with delighted terror when Gretel pushed the witch into the oven and she kept coming back to grab the little girl with her long nails and yellow fangs," Warner writes.

They shrieked with delighted terror and ran away.

I played with the idea, as the child flees in delighted terror from the creations of his fancy.