delicatesse
Example Sentences
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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 Walt Whitman
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 Augustus J. C. Hare
Sir, you have naturally delicatesse and gaite—but the last has, for some days, been under a cloud.
From The Fallen Leaves by Wilkie Collins
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 John Burroughs
I have no delicatesse as a diplomat, but I go blind on Libertad!
From The Book of Humorous Verse by Carolyn Wells
