delicatesse
Example Sentences
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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 Walt Whitman
I have no delicatesse as a diplomat, but I go blind on Libertad!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
Sir, you have naturally delicatesse and gaite—but the last has, for some days, been under a cloud.
From The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins
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 The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman by Walt Whitman
She is a young lady now, delicatesse, consommé, and all the rest of it in a refined way, and I don't want to show myself to her in such an abject state.
From The Chorus Girl and Other Stories by Constance Garnett
