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Sentences ending with delicate

Mr. Cooke's instincts were delicate. [9]
His health is very delicate. [2]
However, to the unconsciously indelicate all things are delicate. [5]
Lali had been strangely quiet all the day before, and she had also seemed strangely delicate. [11]
His comrades standing round watched her admiringly, she was so deft and delicate. [11]
He was the Man from Outside, and he sat near the bright wood-fire; for though it was almost June the night was cool and he was delicate. [11]
The situation was delicate. [5]
In that, at any rate, she was right, for the water of the mountain springs was pure, the air was clear, and the sun was clarifying; and little ornamented or frilled as it was, the petticoat was exquisitely soft and delicate. [11]
He had love, and he had success; and the one had helped to give him the other, helped in a way which was wonderful, and so brilliantly skilful and delicate. [11]

Short sentences using delicate

It is a delicate situation. [5]
He's delicate, likely. [5]

Sentences containing delicate two or more times

I chose to kill the petrifaction mania with a delicate, a very delicate satire. [5]
There was a curious, delicate blueness of the sky over which an infinitely more delicate veil of mist was softly drawn. [11]

More example sentences with the word delicate in them

I bow to your masculine secrecy--but why did my worldly-wise brother mingle a petticoat in this delicate business if he wishes to keep it hidden? [10]
Many a strong-limbed young man and many a blooming young woman have I seen failing and dropping away in or before middle life, and many a delicate and slightly constituted person outliving the athletes and the beauties of their generation. [6]
I can give you only a brief abstract of my own opinions on this delicate and difficult subject. [6]
But I told you it was a delicate question, and warned you to deal with it deftly--to answer it dubiously, and leave them a little in the dark. [5]
In this way you have at once a cheerful blaze, and the fire gradually eats into the solid mass, sinking down with increasing fervor; coals drop below, and delicate tongues of flame sport along the beautiful grain of the forestick. [4]
First came a wreath of roses and lotos-flowers, looking as if they had been plucked just before sunrise, for among the blossoms and leaves there flashed and sparkled a glittering dew of diamonds, lightly fastened on delicate silver wires. [10]
Such rough treatment would also have blunted the sense of touch, on which their delicate use largely depends. [1]
The two functions work together harmoniously, with a fine and delicate precision, on the give-and-take principle. [5]
You do your work in the same old delicate and delicious and forceful and searching and perfect way. [5]
As the day wore on, the air became more amiable still, and a delicate haze settled over the water and over the land, making softer to the eye house and hill and rock and sea. [11]
The slender figure with the narrow head, long, delicate nose, small chin, and pointed fingers, seemed to her like a long, sharp thorn. [10]
On the veld, with the first delicate glow, the head of a meerkat, or a springbok, is raised above the gray-brown grass; herds of cattle move uneasily. [11]
Her bosom heaved with her deep breath, the delicate nostrils quivered, and the great eyes flashed with wrathful light. [10]
That," he said, with delicate meaning, "that is another quality I should desire in a woman. [9]
He, Adrian, would wish her to have a companion of nobler nature and more delicate perceptions. [10]
A delicate nature will not commonly choose a pursuit which implies the habitual infliction of suffering, so readily as some gentler office. [6]
How proudly the white and yellow plumes arched over his cap, and how delicate were the laces on his collar and cuffs! [10]
The torture to which stronger men rarely succumbed seemed to threaten the life of the more delicate ex-schoolmaster. [10]
There were afternoons when the world was flooded with silver light, when the fields were lucent in the sun; and afternoons stained with blue,--the landscape like a tapestry woven in delicate grins on a ground of indigo. [9]
A morning came when I went on deck to survey spaces of a blue and white sea swept by the white March sunlight; to discern at length against the horizon toward which we sped a cloud of the filmiest and most delicate texture and design. [9]
In the texture were the tracings of fossil forms of ferns and the most exquisite and delicate vegetable beauty of the coal age. [4]
One day, as we were crossing a dike between rice swamps spread with delicate green, I saw the white tops of wagons flashing in the sun at the far end of it. [9]
Close by them we saw the intense blue of the skies, through rents in the cloud-rack, and away off in another quarter were drifting clouds of a delicate pink color. [5]
But really he wasn't looking as delicate as he was feeling. [5]
Whatever the number was, the crowd was very great,--so great that one might well feel alarmed for the safety of any delicate person who was in the _pack_ which formed itself at one place in the course of the evening. [6]
The device, however, was never used, and Orlando ceased giggling suddenly, for chancing to glance up he saw a face at a window, pale, exquisite, delicate, with eyes that stared and stared at him as though he were a creature from some other world. [11]
His fresh cheek was bent to the brown, delicate wood, and he was playing to his sister the air of the undying chanson, "Je vais mourir pour ma belle reine. [11]
But maybe it was altogether too delicate, for nobody ever perceived the satire part of it at all. [5]
The musician Wilhelm was also present, but no longer alone; beside him sat his beautiful, delicate wife, Anna d'Avila, with whom he had recently returned from Italy. [10]
There was something very wilful in her beauty, and her body too had delicate, melancholy lines strange in one so young. [11]
Mr. Norton was very gentle in what he had to say, and almost delicate, and he said: "Mr. Clemens, I have been spending some time with Mr. Darwin in England, and I should like to tell you something connected with that visit. [5]
I am not very delicate, but I see you understand me; such substantial fare would hardly suit me just now. [10]
She is certainly very delicate, and greatly needs a change of air and scene to renovate her constitution. [14]
He had a very delicate wife, whom he had been obliged to send South at the beginning of the winter. [9]
It is a very delicate matter to postpone the draft in one State, because of the argument it furnishes others to have postponement also. [7]
As for Mr. Vandewaters and Gracia Raglan, Lady Lawless was not very sure that her delicate sympathy was certain of reward. [11]
The delicate scales used by the assayers were inclosed in glass cases intended to be air-tight, and yet some of this dust was so impalpable and so invisibly fine that it would get in, somehow, and impair the accuracy of those scales. [5]
Refreshments were served us, among which were some hot-house peaches, ethereally delicate as if they had grown in the Elysian Fields and been stolen from a banquet of angels. [6]
Starvation in the uplands was not an unheard-of thing; he did not, however, worry at all on that score, and feared only his possible inability to supply the needs of a woman in a weakened and extremely delicate condition. [13]
Sometimes these towering upheavals of forestry were festooned and garlanded with vine-cables, and sometimes the masses of undergrowth were cocooned in another sort of vine of a delicate cobwebby texture--they call it the "supplejack," I think. [5]
It was not until later that I learned how many important enterprises that delicate hand had aided. [10]
She lay there under the cedars, gazing up through the delicate lacelike foliage at the blue sky, and she thought and wondered and did not care. [13]
His delicate stomach turns, at certain details of the white man's food; but he likes over-ripe fish, and brazed dog, and cat, and rat, and will eat his own uncle with relish. [5]
From that delicate tribute of flattery and knowledge Rudyard had taken this flowering stem and brought it to her pillow. [11]
The slender fingers trembled in his clasp, and when, with loving anxiety, he drew her towards him, he felt the tremor of her delicate limbs, while her eyes expressed bitter suffering and terrible dread. [10]
He felt them tremble in his warm clasp, the delicate, shivering pulsation of youth, the womanly feeling. [11]
In one thin, translucently white hand he held a handkerchief, while with the other he stroked the delicate mustache he had grown, moving his fingers slowly. [2]
Don't these things touch any poor remnant of delicate feeling in you? [5]
No one had told him, and he had never in his life received a letter in a woman's hand, except from his mother; and yet he knew that this delicate little roll had come from a woman--from Melissa. [10]
But farther over to the right, where Cairo lay, there hung a bluish mist, palpable and delicate, out of which emerged the vast pyramids of Cheops; and beside it the smiling inscrutable Sphinx faced the changeless centuries. [11]
Middendorf, too, reported to the Lutzow Jagers at once, and so did the son of Professor Bellermann, and their mutual friend Bauer, spite of his delicate health which seemed to unfit him for any exertion. [10]
And she used to sit in a room facing the mill--though the house fronted another way--thinking of me, I did not doubt, and working at some delicate needle-stuff. [11]
Gombert forced himself to keep silence, but the significant smile on his delicate, beardless lips betrayed what he thought of this selection. [10]
And it was to Honora, after church was over and they were walking homeward together along the dusty road, that Mr. Spence remarked by way of a delicate compliment that "the morning had not been a total loss, after all! [9]
She had pictured to herself a gossamer kind of woman, delicate, and in contour like one of the fashion-plate figures she saw in the picture-papers. [11]
The widow hastened to her side, knelt clown by her, took the injured foot with tender care in her delicate and slender hands, examined it attentively, felt it gently, and then exclaimed with horror: "Good Lord! [10]
We all like to have you lead us, because you do it with such delicate taste and comprehension, and, moreover, with a vigour which one would scarcely expect from you. [10]
Sometimes we're going to have a delicate little landscape like this, and sometimes we're going to have an indelicate little figure, or as much so as the law will allow. [8]
There was little to be done in the last arrangement of the dead, but she could place the delicate, pale hands in a more natural position, and the flowers which the gardener had brought to adorn the coffin did not satisfy her. [10]
The party had to be arranged in such a way as to suit all concerned, which was a delicate matter. [6]
Nine couches, arranged three and three in a horseshoe, invited the guests to repose, with their arms of ebony and cushions of dull olive-green brocade, on which a delicate pattern of gold and silver seemed just to have been breathed. [10]
How delicate, she thought, must be his understanding of her, that he should have spoken so! [9]
It was as though a delicate nerve had been touched in each of them; but it was a nerve that had never been sensitive until they had met each other for the first time. [11]
A day like this is called a poudre day; and woe to the man who tempts it unthinkingly, because the light makes the delicate mist of frost shine like silver. [11]
In ordinary course, they might have known each other for five years and not have come to this sensitive and delicate association. [11]
As Althea stood there, her delicate arms seemed to have lengthened and lost even their slight roundness, her figure to have become even more slender and incorporeal, and how strangely her thin fingers spread apart! [10]
I am sorry there is not room to put in a few dozen instances of the delicate art of the forest, as practised by Natty Bumppo and some of the other Cooperian experts. [5]
Then she made them show her the lovely, richly-tinted and fragrant gift, first on one side and then on the other, buried her face in the flowers, and secretly kissed the delicate petals of a lovely, half-opened rose-bud. [10]
It is not the worship of this one, but the worship of a thousand distilled at last to one delicate liturgy. [11]
The craft of the woodsman, the tricks of the trapper, all the delicate art of the forest, were familiar to Cooper from his youth up.--Prof. [5]
Of course all the westing we have made is gain, and I hope the chronometer is wrong in our favour, for I do not see how any such delicate instrument can keep good time with the constant jarring and thumping we get from the sea. [5]
Emerson shows up the weakness of his young enthusiasts with that delicate wit which warns its objects rather than wounds them. [6]
Finding it in the Virgil was nothing, after all; it was a little delicate flower, which looked as if it were made to press, and it was probably shut in by accident at the particular place where he found it. [6]
And practice at the Tavern Club?--yes; and that was the best teaching of all: Well, you sent even your daintiest and most delicate and fleeting points home to that audience--absolute proof of good reading. [5]
In spite of the strong boots she wore they were alert, delicate, and shapely, and all her beauty had the slender fullness of a quail. [11]
He now approached the sick man with the noiseless step of one in full vigor of life, with his delicate white fingers raised from the green quilt the hand that was free, and turning sideways felt the pulse and reflected a moment. [2]
I remember of the sermon only that it had an indefinite charm of simplicity and wisdom, with occasional illustrations from nature, which were about the most delicate and dainty things of the kind which I had ever heard. [6]
The bare trees, the sand, the bricks and roofs of the houses, the green church spire, and the corners of the white house in the distance, all stood out in the transparent air in most delicate outline and with unnatural clearness. [2]
For she was the quintessence of that feminine product of our country at which Europe has never ceased to wonder, and to give her history would no more account for her than the process of manufacture explains the most delicate of scents. [9]
And so of the people you know; can't you pick out the full-flavored, coarse-fibred characters from the delicate, fine-fibred ones? [6]
The flavor of the Partaga is too delicate for palates that have been accustomed to Connecticut seed leaf. [5]
And yet--such is the mystery of Providence--no one would expect that one of the sweetest and most delicate flowers that blooms, the trailing. [4]
It was of the most delicate white boucassin, with fringes of silk. [5]
Its panels were the most delicate of blue-gray, fantastically designed and outlined by ribbings of blue. [9]
I conclude that the most delicate and important occupation in life is stage-driving. [4]
The Seigneur noted the mixed emotions in her face and the delicate alertness of expression. [11]
The duties which the minister had to perform were unusual, delicate, and difficult; but I believe he acquitted himself of them with the skill of a born diplomatist. [4]
In this way the mind, the taste, the feelings, grow delicate, just as the hands grow white and soft when saved from toil and incased in soft gloves. [6]
Upon examining into the matter it was found stopped up, wadded compactly with a mass of root-fibres, delicate and hair-like. [5]
Farrar put into the little cove, where we dropped anchor, and soon had the chief sufferers ashore; and a delicate supper, in the preparation of which Miss Thorn showed her ability as a cook, soon restored them. [9]
Those thoughtful eyes, the light on the lofty brow, the delicate lips, which seemed about parting to utter some wise or witty word--he had not painted them, never, never could he have accomplished such a masterpiece. [10]
We will let the ingenuous Mr. Gaylord be the first to mention this delicate matter, if possible. [9]
The bicycle, in the hands of a novice, is as alert and acute as a spirit-level in the detecting the delicate and vanishing shades of difference in these matters. [5]
It was probably the first time he had ever tried the delicate social art of playing with fire of this sort. [11]
His coat was the finest and softest I have ever seen, a shade of quiet Maltese; and from his throat downward, underneath, to the white tips of his feet, he wore the whitest and most delicate ermine; and no person was ever more fastidiously neat. [4]
In 1606, upon the entry of the king of Denmark, the chronicler celebrates "the unimaginable number of gallant ladies, beauteous virgins, and other delicate dames, filling the windows of every house with kind aspect. [4]
Full striking was the difference; and the more striking because it was not the rough contrast of good and evil, but the more subtle opposition, the more delicate diversity of different kinds of good. [14]
They also desired the dearest food, and would have no meat from the butcher's but the most delicate, while their list of fruits, cakes, Gates, and outlandish confections is as long as that at any modern banquet. [4]
His companion, on the contrary, a man perhaps twenty years younger, of a slender and delicate build, was seldom still. [10]
How delicate were the characters it contained! [10]

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