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
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
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
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
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
