Madame d'Argenton, in despair at first, became more tractable as she learnt the provisions which had been made for her, and the delicacy with which she was treated.
She represented to her the delicacy and liberality of the arrangements M.
Monte Cristo smiled at her unusual humility, and showed her two immense porcelain jars, over which wound marine plants, of a size and delicacy that nature alone could produce.
With his instinctive delicacy Edmond had preferred avoiding any touch on this painful chord, and Faria had been equally silent.
Julie, remembering Valentine, but whom, with a delicacy natural to women, she did not name before her brother.
Well, it is the same with hashish; only eat for a week, and nothing in the world will seem to you to equal the delicacy of its flavor, which now appears to you flat and distasteful.
Advanced they may have been in manners but in delicacy they were not.
It gave to both the essential element ofdelicacy which they possess to-day.
They understood at once the humour and the delicacy of the situation.
Simms boasted no quality which might be set off against the accurate delicacy of Haggart's hand.
Even first-class Pullman passengers have, as a rule, something to put up with if they desire to be clean, and Colonist travelers are not expected to be endued with any particular sense of delicacy or seemliness.
A self-respecting girl with any delicacy of feeling would naturally resent it; but I'm not sure yet that it's altogether an insult I'm offering you.
His signal lack of delicacy jarred on her now, though she remembered with faint wonder that she had on previous occasions found a relish in his conversation.
Boiled food, ground corn, every delicacy of the season was lavished upon him.
The stock of firewood was kept up, it being found that, in default, the uninvited guests felt no delicacy in burning the interior fittings, or even the doors and window frames.
Those whose misconduct in office ought to have produced their removal even by my predecessor, must not be protected by the delicacy due only to honest men.
Perhaps it will be thought I ought in delicacy to be silent on this subject.
It may be in your power to save them from these miseries by full communications and unrestrained details, postponing motives of delicacy to those of duty.
I do not suppose, with our good banker, that she owed anything, unless it might be a greater delicacy of form and feature, to whatever mixture of gentle blood was in her veins.
Delicacy and caution marked the communications on both sides, and the result was, that on hearing a report of the circumstances, the Church in August cordially invited Dr.
There were all kinds of plants growing up at Nicole's bastide; but as she had no money to pay, the child had always felt a delicacy in asking, for them.
She could not speak of the past; her delicacy forbade her.
These acts were succeeded by one, which conveys the liberal wishes of the legislature, with a delicacy scarcely less honourable to its framers, than to him who was its object.
Motives of delicacy have prevented me hitherto from conversing or writing on this subject, whenever I could avoid it with decency.
I presume if the Bank does require any such oath of secrecy, it is done through a motive of delicacy to those individuals who deal with it.
Not only was there this steady growth of intellect, but the infinite delicacy of his nature and its capacity for refinement developed also, as exhibited in the purity and perfection of his language and style of speech.
Assuredly his cousin had never in the slightest conceivable hint betrayed it; and as for Lucy, the same intuitive delicacy which forever forbade Pierre to question her on the subject, did equally close her own voluntary lips.
No living writer surpasses him in his mastery of pure and classic English, or equals him in the exquisite delicacy and finish of his chiselled sentences, or the metallic ring of his style.
He thinks it shows little delicacy in the Stoics and Epicureans to attempt to represent the gods as merely another name for the elementary forces.
She looked very youthful, like one who had attained her twentieth year, without losing any of the tender delicacy of girlhood, which usually fades so soon.
But it must be admitted that, for delicacy and refinement of thought, for fecundity of ideas, and clearness of exposition, some of the Italians have seldom been surpassed.
He therefore manoeuvred with the English government till things should take a decisive turn, and executed his commission with delicacy and dexterity.
I think if we had been that summer evening even in the solitude of a mountain fastness, an intuitive delicacywould have kept both of us from speaking one word upon the only subject that filled our hearts.
It was plain that delicacy toward herself and compassion for Lady Sackvil had made him leave Venice.
For Gerald Griffin we may not, perhaps, claim the universality of those great masters; but in purity of expression, truthfulness to nature, and delicacy of moral perception he is the equal of any of them.
He was amazed to hear, at the conclusion of his lame peroration, a voice of strange delicacy of intonation proceeding from the figure: "An Englishman, I presume.
The contrast between the delicacy of the detail is striking when compared with the broad treatment of the Kang-he period.
The Ching-hwa potters seem to have adopted a delicacy and a mastery over the art of porcelain decoration scarcely ever met with in history.
The exquisite delicacy of these specimens lies in the combination of an elaborate, but refined, style of decoration in which the painting was most artistic, with the graceful shapes of the pieces themselves.
We perceived that they liked to be unreserved, that they were capable of "soulful outbursts" and of endless delicacy of thought, especially for their humbler fellow-citizens.
The heart of woman sometimes provides instances of this delicacy of thought.
If the parsley were omitted, the flavor he aimed at was not produced at all; but, on the other hand, if the quantity of parsley was in the least excessive, then the gateau instead of being a delicacy for gourmets became an uneatable mess.
In imposing upon himself these privations he acted like a very eminent living etcher, who, having the gift of an extraordinary delicacy of hand, preserves it by abstinence from everything that may effect the steadiness of the nerves.
George Sand, in her admirable novel "Valvedre," has depicted a situation of this kind with the most carefuldelicacy of touch.
Have you ever known any person who lived habitually in the notions of a caste, high or low, without incapacitating himself in a greater or less degree for breadth and delicacy of perception?
With thisdelicacy was combined a not less remarkable freedom in the Greek manners with respect to women.
I had been prepared for little--pictures and photographs have dwarfed the thing--they do not give the firmness and delicacy in form and the sentiment that it inspires.
It did not strike me then that delicacy would of course prevent Lady Hortensia from making use of me to give admittance to her lover; and I looked on myself as a person badly used.
Throughout the whole of last winter you permitted my visits—I will not say encouraged them, because you have too much delicacy to have done that.
Because, if she were the prey to an insidious disease, no feeling of shame—no false delicacy could possibly force a woman of her good sense and naturally powerful mind to keep such a fact from her physician.
They elude the ordinary reader by their abstraction and delicacy of distinction, but they are far from vague.
He describes them in a letter, with that poetry and delicacy and truth of description which render his narrated impressions of scenery of unequalled beauty and interest.
