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Meanings of great delicacy in English

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Usage of great delicacy in English
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I tell you it is a great delicacy, ugly as it looks.
The Mission
2
Your duty will be one of great importance and of great delicacy.
General Scott
3
The providing of this compensation, therefore, becomes a matter of great delicacy.
Story of the Session of the California Legislature of 1909
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A bird-considered a great delicacy-hadjust been placed before the host.
Another World: Fragments from the Star City of Montalluyah
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Those gentlemen pillagers of stage coaches pique themselves on their great delicacy.
The Companions of Jehu
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Nor can I shut my eyes to Anne's great delicacy of constitution.
The Life of Charlotte Brontë — Volume 2
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The process is an interesting and dangerous one, and one of great delicacy.
The Blazed Trail
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You needn't apologize for your great delicacy in the perception of inhuman evil.
Victory: An Island Tale
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The task was one of great delicacy, and surrounded with difficulties.
Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 1.
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The marble is of great delicacy, and is wrought to a wax-like surface.
Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, Complete / Series I, I...
11
It has two nice fat young, which the Tarahumares consider a great delicacy.
Unknown Mexico, Volume 1 (of 2) / A Record of Five Years' Explor...
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These, though inferior to those of the swan, are esteemed a great delicacy.
Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania
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These ugly creatures are considered a great delicacy, and are much sought after.
The Malay Archipelago, Volume 2 / The Land of the Orang-utan and...
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She is a woman of great delicacy of appearance, betokening very frail health.
Sunny Memories Of Foreign Lands, Volume 1
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She is large, but very handsome, with great delicacy and address.
The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2
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Léon commanded his feelings, and replied, with great delicacy of innuendo-
New Arabian Nights
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