delicatesse
Example Sentences
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Thus, in our times, refinement and delicatesse are not only attended to sufficiently, but threaten to eat us up, like a cancer.
From Complete Prose Works Specimen Days and Collect, November Boughs and Goodbye My Fancy by Whitman, Walt
To fuse within themselves its rules precise and delicatesse?
From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt
No, I am afraid it will not," said Madame Mohl, "for remember we are en froid, not merely en delicatesse.
From Story of My Life, volumes 1-3 by Hare, Augustus J. C.
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
