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

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 Garnett, Constance

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

Fear grace, fear delicatesse; Fear the mellow-sweet, the sucking of honey-juice: Beware the advancing mortal ripening of nature!

From Whitman A Study by Burroughs, John

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