delicatesse

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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

To fuse within themselves its rules precise and delicatesse?

From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt

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

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 The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman by Whitman, Walt