delicatesse

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Sir, you have naturally delicatesse and gaite—but the last has, for some days, been under a cloud.

From The Fallen Leaves by Collins, Wilkie

It is contained in the following verses: "L'esprit sublime et la delicatesse, L'oubli charmante de sa propre beauté L'amitié tendre et l'amour emporté Sont les attraits de ma belle maîtresse."

From Woman in Science With an Introductory Chapter on Woman's Long Struggle for Things of the Mind by Zahm, John Augustine

I have no delicatesse as a diplomat, but I go blind on Libertad!

From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn

Fear grace, elegance, civilization, delicatesse, Fear the mellow sweet, the sucking of honey—juice, Beware the advancing mortal ripening of Nature, Beware what precedes the decay of the ruggedness of states and men.

From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt

Ils sont tous dorez avec une delicatesse inconnu� aux doreurs d'aujourd'hui.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Dibdin, Thomas Frognall