Both Uses of
delicacy
in
Far from the Madding Crowd
- "She blushes at the insult," murmured Bathsheba, watching the pink flush which arose and overspread the neck and shoulders of the ewe where they were left bare by the clicking shears—a flush which was enviable, for its delicacy, by many queens of coteries, and would have been creditable, for its promptness, to any woman in the world.†
Chpt 22-24
- Being hardly in a condition to drive home as she had driven to town, Boldwood, with every delicacy of manner and feeling, offered to get her a driver, or to give her a seat in his phaeton, which was more comfortable than her own conveyance.†
Chpt 46-48 *
Definition:
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(delicacy as in: eat the delicacy) something that is rare or expensive -- usually a prized food