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• Both had that delicacy. (10)
• What flower-like delicacy she had! (8)
• For once his delicacy was at fault. (8)
• There was delicacy in her dandyism. (10)
• Do not let your delicacy take arms against me. (10)
• It requires a delicacy of feeling which they have not. (4)
• And he really did; for underneath, he had true delicacy. (8)
• Are you lost to every feeling of propriety and delicacy? (4)
• With Pharisaic delicacy, Shelton refrained from looking. (8)
• The gallant cornet adored delicacy and a gilded refinement. (10)
• The problem is one of inner delicacy, of spiritual modesty. (12)
• Yet delicacy and charm are by no means lacking in his works. (3)
• A natural delicacy would interfere and mar his noblest efforts. (8)
• The young man decided the point with apparently superfluous delicacy. (9)
• He counselled himself to wait for her; she might have ideas of delicacy. (10)
• He entered the situation and was possessed by the shivering delicacy of it. (10)
• We could hardly exaggerate the difficulty and delicacy of the duty before me. (9)
• Such delicacy had been a stumbling-block to him all through professional life. (8)
• He was condemned by an afflicted delicacy, the sharpest of critical tribunals. (10)
• Hilary, who had stopped to listen out of delicacy, had a flash of recollection. (8)
• His delicacy forbade him the indulgence which my own protested against in vain. (9)
• How the delicacy, the discretion of his favourite could have been so lain asleep! (4)
• When June determined on anything, delicacy became a somewhat minor consideration. (8)
• Gregory made a little movement of recoil, as though his delicacy had received a shock. (8)
• The extreme delicacy of the signal was at least an excuse for Harry to perceive nothing. (10)
• But here, too, he was hampered by his delicacy: one did not pry into the private lives of others! (8)
• But the correctness of his eye, and the delicacy of his taste, proved to be beyond his politeness. (4)
• He did not talk with Cynthia about Jeff, out of that delicacy, or that coldness, common to them both. (9)
• Lavender stopped, for his delicacy would not allow him even in so vital a cause to call bodies bodies. (8)
• Here was again a want of delicacy and regard for others which had formerly so struck and disgusted her. (4)
• If you are not lost to every feeling of womanly delicacy you will accept my statement without question. (1)
• You cannot imagine what a picture it makes, her childish delicacy contrasted with his stalwart strength. (9)
• It was short, but expressed good sense, warm attachment, liberality, propriety, even delicacy of feeling. (4)
• Little Henry was in her thoughts, and a mixture of alarm and delicacy made her irresolute what else to say. (4)
• The young architect was beginning to feel that this was not a world for delicacy of motive and refinement. (13)
• He, who had married a daughter to Mr. Rushworth: romantic delicacy was certainly not to be expected from him. (4)
• Keenness of perception, conformity, delicacy of handling, these be all the qualities necessary to parasites. (10)
• The amateur of this delicacy really enjoys it only within twenty-four hours after it is taken from the fish. (20)
• Shelton felt a delicacy, as a man naturally would, in explaining that being in love was in itself enough to do. (8)
• The nature of the art was hinted, with the delicacy of dainty feet which have to tread in mire to get to safety. (10)
• Moreover, to touch and kindle the mind through laughter, demands more than sprightliness, a most subtle delicacy. (10)
• He omitted to send his address with this donation, but whether from delicacy or from caution he could not have said. (8)
• He had set little traps for Johanna and searched her expression, resented her evasions and yet respected her delicacy. (12)
• Spare to false womanliness her delicacy, Or bid true manliness give ear, we crave: In our defence thus chained are we. (10)
• Your predecessors had also argued it with her; and they, too, discovered their enemy in a whimsical feminine delicacy. (10)
• Her quick delicacy made her redden in alluding so closely to his personal affairs, and I loved her for the nice feeling. (10)
• Her brother broke into a wild laugh at her slanging, which had such a bizarre effect in relation to her physical delicacy. (9)
• In that matter, his natural delicacy and his deference to Percy had always checked him from sounding the subject closely. (10)
• In that matter, his natural delicacy and his deference to Percy had always checked him from sounding the subject closely. (22)
• As Harriet described it, there had been an interesting mixture of wounded affection and genuine delicacy in their behaviour. (4)
• The knowledge of something about her conspicuous, doubtful, provocative of insult, as she thought, grievously hurt her delicacy. (8)
• To her indeed the young married hero spoke almost indecorously, and that which his delicacy withheld him from speaking to Clare. (10)
• They said nothing, however; for the conversation had reached a point of delicacy that made men hesitate to say what they thought. (13)
• Elizabeth found the interest of the subject increase, and listened with all her heart; but the delicacy of it prevented further inquiry. (4)
• He was never a robust pianist at his strongest, and the transparent delicacy of his playing during his last years was almost incredible. (3)
• Between personal delicacy and our law of divorce there is no relation; between absolute truth and our law of divorce there is no relation. (8)
• The Zarzuela is the peculiar Spanish form of light opera, resembling the Italian opera buffa, but possessing more brilliance and delicacy. (3)
• And he, a middle-aged and cultivated man, conscious of everything, could not even speak for fear of breaking through his shell of delicacy. (8)
• As they faced together each saw that the other had passed through a furnace, scorching enough to him, though hers was the delicacy exposed. (10)
• He hung waiting for confidential communications on my part, but did not press for them; he preserved an unvarying delicacy in that respect. (10)
• She could praise him, on a review of it, for delicacy, moreover; and the delicacy laid her under a more positive obligation. (10)
• Sir Franks, with a gentlemanly delicacy natural to all lovers of a smooth world, begged him to see the main and the insurmountable objection. (10)
• Thus we obtain delicacy; and thus, as you will perceive, our civilization, by the aid of the sentimentalists, has achieved an effective varnish. (10)
• She wore through the critic ordeal his burning sensitiveness to grace and delicacy cast about a woman, and was rather better than not withered by it. (10)
• Her unwonted breach of delicacy in speaking publicly of her present, and the vulgar persistency of her sticking to the theme, very much perplexed him. (10)

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