| 单词 | exquisiteness |
| 例句 | And then, struck with the impossibility of communicating the exquisiteness of having been a dragon in flight, Korga reaches for the most apt simile he can imagine. In Praise of Samuel R. Delany 2019-08-08T04:00:00Z The belly is exquisite when raw, and retains its exquisiteness through the canning process. Holiday Gift Guide for Foodies: From Murderous Mermaid Salt to Lamps Made Out of Croissants 2019-12-12T05:00:00Z Whitehouse was enamoured not only of their exquisiteness – the fragility of their decoration and the skill involved in crafting them – but also of the optical fascination of the interaction between flame and glass. David Whitehouse obituary 2013-03-24T17:49:40Z Stockwell, while playing with themes of consumer waste, refers to the "toxic exquisiteness" of her hi-tech raw materials, hinting at the double-edged fascination her best work generates. This week's new exhibitions 2010-06-18T23:06:00Z Considering the exquisiteness of some of the sushi crafted in this city, and the passion for high-quality ramen, it was probably inevitable. With Tempura Matsui, Fine Tempura Dining Arrives in New York 2015-07-07T04:00:00Z We learned how champagne is produced and stored in dark cellars underground and how important the soil, temperature and rain levels are to the exquisiteness of the grape harvest. An effervescent visit to France capped by a three-star restaurant experience 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Directly below us, perhaps a thousand feet downhill, a fava bean-shaped lake of impossible exquisiteness shimmered. In the Heart of the Dolomites, Hiking and Haute Cuisine 2015-08-13T04:00:00Z Part of that is because of the Old World elegance of the wood and the exquisiteness of the craftsmanship. Paul McCarthy at Hauser & Wirth: A horror show on a grand, exquisite scale 2017-08-14T04:00:00Z It’s the presence of Yelena, whose pure physical exquisiteness inspires people to fantasize about a world less squalid. | 'Uncle Vanya': ‘Uncle Vanya’ With Cate Blanchett at City Center 2012-07-22T18:31:05Z "As driven as he was to win, he loved the game so much that he couldn't help smile and appreciate the exquisiteness of what Fischer did to him," said Schreiber. 'Pawn Sacrifice' film captures chess drama of Fischer-Spassky face-off 2014-09-12T04:00:00Z For many, the exquisiteness of her appearance here makes it peak Kidman. Nicole Kidman’s top 10 films - ranked! 2019-01-10T05:00:00Z This glow-in-the-dark box comes with a host of “Ori” items, but most of them are designed to celebrate the exquisiteness that is the game’s art. 15 games that will keep the fun going all year round 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z But it fizzes with an almost aggressive opticality, revving into life a picture that might otherwise wilt in the tropical heat of its own overweening exquisiteness. An Indian miniature that sparks maximum pleasure The stunning exquisiteness of Adams’ Passover aria has become more moving than ever. The deepest listening for Passover and Easter: Four music pieces of profound meaning 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z This is what Cirque excels at but also, amid all of the technology and precision, sometimes loses track of: the exquisiteness of the individual. Review: Cirque du Soleil's 'Volta' says it's OK to be yourself. So hop on a BMX 2020-01-23T05:00:00Z It is life-affirming, made even more so when you taste the exquisiteness of your creation. Opinion | How to Reverse the Rising Suicide Rate 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z He entered the teahouse and found there a composition of a single morning glory of such exquisiteness that he saw within it the beauty of the entire natural world. The Rise of Modern Ikebana 2017-11-06T05:00:00Z But the game, a most important one between teams vying for a place in next season’s Champions League, was already won by the exquisiteness of Mata and lost by the rashness of Gerrard. An Ugly Final Chapter to Gerrard's Long Career at Liverpool 2015-03-24T04:00:00Z Interviews with top designers following Apple Watch’s splashy debut underscored the exquisiteness of the hardware—and the overall absence, from a design perspective, of much dazzle or surprise. Apple Watch: These Top Designers Aren't Impressed 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z Watch the 88th best player in the world serve and volley with exquisiteness and then watch one of the top seeds and ask yourself what the difference is except that tiny slice. The Blade Runner’s BS 2013-02-15T09:45:00Z One aspect of photographs like this is “the theme of the beautiful landscape and the purity of nature and the exquisiteness of mountain vistas and so on,” he says. A Chinese Vision of Tibet 2012-08-20T05:00:00Z The utmost beauty and exquisiteness of finish in the mere material, but the absence of all pretentious ornament, is thought most unexceptionable. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z October 26.—Does the too exciting exquisiteness of Venice drive people mad? Spiritual Adventures 2012-02-17T03:00:27.070Z Of the same in kind, but unutterably sweet and dainty also in its exquisiteness, is stanza vii.: The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume II (of 2) 2012-01-14T03:00:20.483Z Sympathy and exquisiteness of touch are the characteristics of Mr. Hearn's genius. Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z She has an exquisiteness of perception that makes her feel even the creases in a rose leaf. Dr. Hardhack's Prescription A Play for Children in Four Acts 2011-05-24T02:00:12.880Z Madame Swetchine lives, and deserves to live, in French literature—for, though Russian, she wrote in French—by the incomparable exquisiteness of her personal, expressing itself in her literary, quality. French Classics 2011-05-22T02:00:12.620Z There is an obvious study of Boccaccesque phrase, with a no less obvious desire to improve upon its exquisiteness of detail, masking an incapacity to write connectedly. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z This is exquisite; and of the sort of exquisiteness that leads one, in private, and in uncritical colloquies, to fall, as the phrase runs, into ecstasies. The Bridling of Pegasus Prose Papers on Poetry 2011-02-26T03:00:51.130Z If we are adequately to appreciate the exquisiteness of the earlier Japanese works, we will forget the "Japan, an Interpretation." Concerning Lafcadio Hearn With a Bibliography by Laura Stedman 2011-07-20T02:00:12.413Z The charms of 18th-century English literature, as it happens, are essentially of the rational, social and translatable kind: in intensity, exquisiteness and eccentricity of the choicer kinds it is proportionately deficient. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 6 "English Language" to "Epsom Salts" 2011-02-19T03:00:59.807Z It was easy enough to train Miss Judy, whose nature responded to exquisiteness as an �olian harp responds to the breeze. Oldfield A Kentucky Tale of the Last Century 2011-02-13T03:00:19.953Z I explained to Okura that this was not really Newport, only a small sample of the ordinary shopping country town, with the real exquisiteness of Newport tucked away behind. The Invisible Censor 2011-01-29T03:00:20.267Z This is characterized by a richness of design that is most attractive, and the hangings are in keeping with the exquisiteness of the whole. Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings 2011-01-11T03:00:35.147Z She had just arrived the day previous, and hastened to take up her abode as near her former home of exquisiteness as she could, without detection. Irene Iddesleigh There was the fine exquisiteness of fin de race in Mary Falconer. The Sentimental Adventures of Jimmy Bulstrode He doesn't feel things at all as you, with your exquisiteness, imagine. The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece Moreover, fineness of texture manifests exquisiteness of sensibility, as seen by contrasting human organism and feelings with brutes, or fine-haired persons with coarse-haired. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology No sooner had I begun to cogitate over the exquisiteness of my fate than I was disturbed again, however. A Top-Floor Idyl The different-shaded lights which dangled from its roof bestowed a look of Indian exquisiteness on the many quaint and delicate productions of nature that rested daintily in their beds of terra-cotta tint. Irene Iddesleigh Though they had been made by the same factory, the ladies of the Women’s Culture Club one and all could see the enormous difference in the exquisiteness of the under-glaze. Young Wallingford The light of this lamp throws a golden radiance over you, your lips are quivering—oh! ever so slightly, and your eyes reveal to me the exquisiteness of your soul. The Heart of a Woman It is the feeling, sentimental, exalted, angelic temperament; and always imparts purity, sweetness, devotion, exquisiteness, susceptibility, loveliness, and great moral worth. The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology I must say that, from her stubby, capable fingers, there flow pure poetry of thought and exquisiteness of coloring. A Top-Floor Idyl That picture, at once real and ideal, displayed in its exquisiteness the miracle of two hearts saving and embellishing each other. Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern But none are more emphatically marked by the note of exquisiteness. The Golden Treasury Selected from the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language and arranged with Notes It is but a century since the time of Beau Brummel, the exquisiteness of whose toilet could hardly be the aim of a modern gentleman. The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 6 August 1906 The discrepancy between the triviality of their subject-matter and the exquisiteness of their diction is striking. A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion It always has a certain quality of exquisiteness, but this quality is and could not but be unequally displayed in the short poems and the long. A History of Nineteenth Century Literature (1780-1895) Indeed, she seems to have cherished an abundant scorn of everything approaching to exquisiteness or "æstheticism." Celebrated Women Travellers of the Nineteenth Century Touching the sight of cats in the night, I am not well satisfied of the exquisiteness of that sense in them. A Letter Book Selected with an Introduction on the History and Art of Letter-Writing Above all, is he the "painter's painter," for the infinite subtlety and the exquisiteness of power are his. The Painter in Oil A complete treatise on the principles and technique necessary to the painting of pictures in oil colors On trial this appeared: the play met with its deserved fate; and, notwithstanding the exquisiteness of the wit, was absolutely rejected. Calamities and Quarrels of Authors And there was Chalmers, evidently enjoying the exquisiteness of the scene, as only by the true poet scenery can be enjoyed. My Schools and Schoolmasters or The Story of my Education. In past days in visiting those intarsiad figures, I was so much taken with the exquisiteness of the work that I could not withhold myself from praising the authors to heaven! Intarsia and Marquetry Of the justness of the metaphorical compliment implied in the delineation of the head, it is not for the author to speak; of its exquisiteness and delicacy, his sense is too strong for expression. The Comic Latin Grammar A new and facetious introduction to the Latin tongue Because, as you yourself have told me, exquisiteness of dress did not reassure you of another's happiness; you were always remembering that a decent coat may sometimes cover cancer. Murder Point A Tale of Keewatin Her eyes met his slowly, and for a moment he felt a pleasure acute with the exquisiteness of pain. David Dunne A Romance of the Middle West Beauty, exquisiteness, serenity; but not without austerity carried to a distinct bitingness. Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Wrapped in her dreams of amethyst, the exquisiteness of this new world kept her in ecstasy. The Art of Disappearing How complex and lovely the bare lane of wattled dry reeds—the ineffable exquisiteness of patches of green corn, of a few scant pink blossoms, of the shoots of elder! The Spirit of Rome This impression was strengthened by the floor itself, which contains no suggestion whatever of Yosemite's exquisiteness. The Book of the National Parks The consequence was, in all his thoughts an exquisiteness and finish, a crystalline lustre, purity and concentration; but it was the exquisiteness of a great nature. Spare Hours They shall delight in the exquisiteness of things as no one else can delight in them, who has not received this order. The Tale of Lal A Fantasy But I’ve been thinking that this exquisite and beautiful animalism known as the maternal instinct can sometimes emerge from its exquisiteness. The Prairie Mother There was little exquisiteness left in the young man now. "Unto Caesar" "The exquisiteness of the decadent efflorescence of a passing race." Lady Bountiful Though they are not without a certain exquisiteness, they seem overdainty and wastefully frail, excepting, possibly, the "Clover" and the "Blue-bell." Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions He dreamed of silks and poplins, luscious in texture and of unforeseen exquisiteness: he dreamed of carriages of the "County" arrested before his windows, of exquisite women ruffling charmed, entranced to his counter. The Lost Girl Let me quote here some poems from a mediæval poet of Western India—Jnândâs—whose works are nearly forgotten, and have become scarce from the very exquisiteness of their excellence. Creative Unity The emphasis is put upon exquisiteness in decoration, upon precision in technique, upon loveliness of material. Human Traits and their Social Significance Such, then, are the exquisiteness, the number, and the extraordinary development of the instincts of insects. The Dawn of Reason or, Mental Traits in the Lower Animals Opus 33 is a438 captivating "Spring Idyl" for the piano, for which she has also written a "Revery," of which the exquisiteness of sleep is the theme. Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions But these Lieder are, for probable freedom from indebtedness and intrinsic exquisiteness of phrase and rhythm, unsurpassed, perhaps unequalled. The Flourishing of Romance and the Rise of Allegory (Periods of European Literature, vol. II) It is in his pictures, replete with exquisiteness, that one finds the true analogy to lyric poetry. Adventures in the Arts Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets The exquisiteness of it, her pearly teeth, the Cupid's bow of her lips flushed him from head to foot. In Apple-Blossom Time A Fairy-Tale to Date Works of art are dry subjects of description, and that too just in the proportion of their exquisiteness to behold. Continental Monthly , Vol. 6, No. 1, July, 1864 Devoted to Literature and National Policy. But no one has ever touched him in exquisiteness of gradation; and no one in landscape in perfect rendering of organic form. Lectures on Landscape Delivered at Oxford in Lent Term, 1871 Those who insist on charm, on winningness in style, on subtle harmonies and fine exquisiteness of suggestion, are disappointed in Burke: they even find him stiff and over-coloured. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary" This poem has an exaltation and a glory, joined with an exquisiteness of expression, which place it in the highest rank amongst the many masterpieces of its illustrious Author. The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language To these, and to the exquisiteness of care and touch developed in working precious metals, may probably be attributed the final triumph of Italian sculpture. Lectures on Art Delivered before the University of Oxford in Hilary term, 1870 For a reader to reach the apprehension of such an impression in all its exquisiteness, and to recognize the full exquisiteness of its expression, requires some effort. Platform Monologues Her exquisiteness and physical brilliancy gave Mrs. Muir something not unlike a slight shock. Robin It was exquisite, the trust, the truth, the quiet gravity, and yet there was pain in the exquisiteness. Franklin Kane But Cowper's unites with an exquisiteness in the turn of thought which the ancients would have called Irony, an intensity of pathetic tenderness peculiar to his loving and ingenuous nature. The Golden Treasury Of the Best Songs and Lyrical Poems in the English Language If it lacked the eighteenth-century exquisiteness of the house at Nantucket, with its reminder of austere Quaker prejudices, it was none the less appropriate as a glowing background for the gay old Admiral. The Trumpeter Swan Pleasures which rise beyond the mere gratification of the senses are dependant for their exquisiteness on the number and variety of the thoughts which they evoke. Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country Vergil; placed first as most like Milton in consummate art and permanent exquisiteness of phrase. The Visions of England Lyrics on leading men and events in English History When he surveyed her in a particularizing way, as he did swiftly, there was an exquisiteness about her that gave him pleasureable thrills. The Courage of Marge O'Doone For the exquisiteness of a writer like Mr. Henry James he has the keenest insight, the warmest appreciation. The Land of Contrasts A Briton's View of His American Kin She exhales a certain exquisiteness that reveals itself in the delicacy and daintiness of her contact with people and the objective world. The Vitalized School Such a timidity and such a distrust often accompany very exquisite faculties: indeed, they may be said to imply a certain exquisiteness of feeling. Adventures in Criticism From what Scott says about him we conclude that the man's personality and his way of singing added much to the exquisiteness of his songs. Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature First of all, by nature and by training, Saint-Gaudens was a designer, and exquisiteness of design was the quality he most consciously strove for—the quality on which he expended his unresting, unending, persevering toil. Artist and Public And Other Essays On Art Subjects It was his one link with the world of exquisiteness and new-burnished joys out of which he was being thrust; he would keep it if he could. The Lee Shore The "kitten" seemed to him so pathetic that he forgot Eleanor's exquisiteness, and told her about the bruised wrist and the reeking coat, and how pretty the girl was. The Vehement Flame And his self-distrust was even then recognized as well as his exquisiteness. Adventures in Criticism But Anton Lang, with his blonde complexion, his light hair, blue eyes and delicate mouth, his exquisiteness of form and quietness of manner, is just like what Raphael and many of the old masters present. T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him If I hadn't heard of the death of Henry Carruthers, Sallie's elaborate black draperies, relieved by the filmy exquisiteness of white crepe ruches at the neck and wrists, would have proclaimed the fact. The Tinder-Box Women uniformed to the last degree of tailored exquisiteness. Half Portions Once, when he and Edith were helping Mrs. Houghton weed her garden, he stopped grubbing, and sat down in the gold and bronze glitter of coreopsis, to expatiate upon the exquisiteness of the defects. The Vehement Flame Mr. Twist felt there was something thoroughly American about this name—plain and business-like, and attractively in contrast to the subtle, the almost immoral exquisiteness of the article itself. Christopher and Columbus In richness, versatility, variety, and exquisiteness of execution, it left little to be desired; yet, viewed at a distance, and as a whole, it does not inspire us with a sense of architectonic majesty. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Second Series Readers upon whom the shimmering exquisiteness of Arthurian knighthood began to pall turned with relish to Browning's Italian murder story, with its sensational crime, its mysterious elopement, its problem interest, its engaging actuality. Robert Browning Few of the Greeks could write with greater exquisiteness of natural beauty than this wild poet who loved the dunghill. The Poetry Of Robert Browning Honey, “the distilled sweetness of the flower,” commands a price commensurate with the exquisiteness of its production, but is not quite as easy of digestion as some other forms of sugar. Everyday Foods in War Time The cherub blushed whenever a woman looked at him in that way, as if the exquisiteness of his sensations was too much for him. The Downfall From its excessive exquisiteness they called it the "Joy-expanding Wilderness," and a Tiger bore sway there, such that from dread of him fierce lions could not set foot in that retreat. The Talking Beasts And in the exquisiteness of her innocence she was weaving the spell of the centuries with the stitches in her long seams. Andrew the Glad What motherhood in its deep grief and joy, what sisterhood and wifehood may be, have never been sung with more penetration and exquisiteness than Wordsworth sang them. The Poetry Of Robert Browning Armstrong emphasizes exquisiteness of perception as the basis for taste: the more exquisite the mind, the more is it able to discriminate among the various degrees of the beautiful and the deformed. Essays on Taste Antonyms: homely, ugly, repulsive, unlovely, hideous, uncomely, inelegant. beautify, v. embellish, adorn, grace, garnish. beauty, n. loveliness, fairness, elegance, comeliness, pulchritude, grace, exquisiteness, charm, attraction. Putnam's Word Book Here all is delicacy and exquisiteness—the beauty, at once fragile and imperishable, of an enchanting work of art. Landmarks in French Literature There must be felicity of idea, lightness of tone, exquisiteness or extreme naturalness and propriety of expression; and this within the compass of a few verses. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 556, July 7, 1832 Hers was a cold, not a hot selfishness, refined to a sort of exquisiteness and never for an instant fleshly or gross. Deadham Hard I give it just as I find it: 'The exquisiteness of the spring. Fenwick's Career His coarse mind was benumbed by the exquisiteness of his antagonist. O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1920 Yet even those were tasteful and all painted white, so that the whole was purity, beauty, and exquisiteness. Round Anvil Rock A Romance It was like her exquisiteness to do that and it tightened his throat to think about it. Mary Wollaston “And now the threads of my recital draw together in the paragon of female exquisiteness - my Princess.” The Red One Betty, in seeing it, knew all the exquisiteness of her own pleasure, and all the meanings of it. The Shuttle For there was surely no exquisiteness about it now! The Conquest of Canaan There is not half the curl about many of them to-day that they showed with such exquisiteness yesterday. The Lost Continent She looked changed, more unapproachable than ever in a new exquisiteness. Treasure and Trouble Therewith A Tale of California You will pray with me, I know, for his recovery; for surely, Coleridge, an exquisiteness of feeling like this must border on derangement. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 5 The Letters of Charles and Mary Lamb, 1796-1820 She was besought to consider the fitness of articles whose exquisiteness she was almost afraid to look at. The Shuttle It will but render my sensations more poignant, and give a new refinement to the exquisiteness of despair. Imogen A Pastoral Romance I think myself, our life would be much poorer without our dreams; a thousand rainbow tints and combinations would be gone; music and poetry would lose many an indescribable exquisiteness and tenderness. Adela Cathcart, Volume 2 The fragile exquisiteness of her caress startled him most, revealed unknown things to him. England, My England He knew he loved Barbara, but he did not know that her exquisiteness was permeating his whole being with an endless possession. There & Back This was the sole relic of "the exquisite S�ren's" exquisiteness—like one of the rudimentary organs, dwindled through lack of use, which zoologists find in certain animals.— Tales of Two Countries I told you in my last lecture that the exquisiteness of Florentine thirteenth century masonry was founded on the strength and splendour of that which preceded it. Val d'Arno A rhapsody on the exquisiteness of the fruit's flavour would have bored Evadne stiff. The Mountebank Courtesy in its utmost possible exquisiteness—an exquisiteness of which even the French have no conception—seems natural to the Izumo boy as the colour of his hair or the tint of his skin. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series She drank it off at two gulps; for she appeared to hurry it off faster than usual, as if not tempted by the exquisiteness of its flavor to dwell upon it so long. Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life The virtues of the Classical are exquisiteness and incisive significance; of the Romantic, richness and splendor. A History of English Literature Meantime I need not tell you that it would not be a satisfactory natural arrangement if moss grew on marble, and that all fine workmanship in marble implies equal exquisiteness of surface and edge. Val d'Arno The high thought, philosophic reflection, and passionate religious sentiment that mark the whole work, added to the exquisiteness of the versification, place it wellnigh supreme in the literature of elegiac poetry. Beacon Lights of History, Volume 13 Great Writers; Dr Lord's Uncompleted Plan, Supplemented with Essays by Emerson, Macaulay, Hedge, and Mercer Adam But it is cultivated with the same exquisiteness that is shown in the cultivation of the natural tendencies of a garden plant. Glimpses of Unfamiliar Japan Second Series The servants caught the example, and showed him a distinction of neglect, which the exquisiteness of his sensibility would not permit him to despise. Damon and Delia A Tale But Collins has also an exquisiteness of feeling which makes others of his pieces perfect examples of the true classical style. A History of English Literature But I think this Riseholme life with its finish and its exquisiteness spoils one for other places. Queen Lucia Every atom of natural generous manhood in my being was wild with fury at the brutal wrong done her exquisiteness. The Head of the House of Coombe She quivered with an exquisiteness not to be defined—a something in hair, or flesh, or glory of eye, or softness of lips, altogether lacking in his physical being, but eagerly desired. Fran The letter of Rose Bradwardine to Waverley is alone enough to disprove Scott's disparagement of himself, his belief that he had been denied exquisiteness of touch. Waverley This is the natural history of undisciplined passion; it cheapens love, it robs it quickly of its exquisiteness and charm. Problems of Conduct The exquisiteness of her beauty was now fully disclosed. The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter Her exquisiteness and her physical brilliancy gave Mrs. Muir something not unlike a slight shock. The Head of the House of Coombe The sense of fragility had fled, and he saw how nobly built she was for all her exquisiteness. Huntingtower But for exquisite variety and varied exquisiteness Tennyson is not readily to be surpassed. Alfred Tennyson No view that I am acquainted with in the world is at all comparable to this for delicacy, charm, exquisiteness, dainty coloring, and bewildering rapidity of change. Mark Twain's Letters — Volume 4 (1886-1900) With a touch here and there, the touch of a master, he had gathered the whole little story of Miss Alicia, and had found it of a whimsical exquisiteness and humor. T. Tembarom Their taste was a medley of new and old: they made a not uninteresting effort to combine the exquisiteness of Gothic decoration with the proportions of Greek architecture. Oxford One sees here the decline of the art from its first exquisiteness. Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology The very exquisiteness of the enjoyment made her know that it ought to be a forbidden one. The Marble Faun - Volume 1 The Romance of Monte Beni It had got so warm now that the fire in the kitchen heated the whole house sufficiently, and Annie had the rooms clean to exquisiteness. A Mountain Woman Every hour brought with it some new delight, some exquisiteness of sight or of words that I shall remember for ever. The ninth vibration and other stories She was thinking of him and the smartness of his habit, and the exquisiteness of this moment. The Financier, a novel He looked with half-shut, smoldering eyes at her slender exquisiteness, compact of a strange charm that was both well-bred and gypsyish. Bucky O'Connor O sweetness past profaning guess, Grievous with its own exquisiteness! New Poems Tarzan could not hope to make the man suffer as he had suffered, since physical pain may never approach the exquisiteness of mental torture. Tarzan the Untamed |
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