delicatesse

Example Sentences

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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

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

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.

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

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