All 14 Uses of
delicacy
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- Then they began to pass around the dusky, piquant, Arlesian sausages, and lobsters in their dazzling red cuirasses, prawns of large size and brilliant color, the echinus with its prickly outside and dainty morsel within, the clovis, esteemed by the epicures of the South as more than rivalling the exquisite flavor of the oyster,—all the delicacies, in fact, that are cast up by the wash of waters on the sandy beach, and styled by the grateful fishermen "fruits of the sea."†
Chpt 5-6 *
- With his instinctive delicacy Edmond had preferred avoiding any touch on this painful chord, and Faria had been equally silent.†
Chpt 17-18
- The young couple gazed with astonishment at the sight of their visitor's emotion, and wondered to see the large tears silently chasing each other down his otherwise stern and immovable features; but they felt the sacredness of his grief, and kindly refrained from questioning him as to its cause, while, with instinctive delicacy, they left him to indulge his sorrow alone.†
Chpt 25-26
- The Englishman seemed to appreciate this extreme delicacy, made his bow and went away, proceeding with a characteristic British stride towards the street mentioned.†
Chpt 27-28
- 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.†
Chpt 31-32
- They told him so frankly, and he received their excuses with the air of a man who appreciated their delicacy.†
Chpt 35-36
- "I fully appreciate his delicacy," said Andrea, cramming the notes hastily into his pocket.†
Chpt 55-56
- 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.†
Chpt 61-62
- …coat, unexceptional in its cut, though simple and unornamented; it was not the plain white waistcoat; it was not the trousers, that displayed the foot so perfectly formed—it was none of these things that attracted the attention,—it was his pale complexion, his waving black hair, his calm and serene expression, his dark and melancholy eye, his mouth, chiselled with such marvellous delicacy, which so easily expressed such high disdain,—these were what fixed the attention of all upon him.†
Chpt 69-70
- "Tell him I will come when I leave my dear grandmamma," she replied, feeling, with true delicacy, that the person to whom she could be of the most service just then was Madame de Saint-Meran.†
Chpt 71-72
- Mercedes read:— Albert,—While showing you that I have discovered your plans, I hope also to convince you of my delicacy.†
Chpt 91-92
- This is no act of selfishness, but of delicacy.†
Chpt 95-96
- "What dreadful sufferings!" said Julie, remembering Valentine, but whom, with a delicacy natural to women, she did not name before her brother.†
Chpt 111-112
- In this garden Mercedes had found, at the place indicated by the count, the sum of money which he, through a sense of delicacy, had described as having been placed there twenty-four years previously.†
Chpt 111-112
Definition:
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(delicacy as in: eat the delicacy) something that is rare or expensive -- usually a prized food