delicatesse
Example Sentences
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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
I have no delicatesse as a diplomat, but I go blind on Libertad!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Wells, Carolyn
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
To fuse within themselves its rules precise and delicatesse?
From Leaves of Grass by Whitman, Walt
