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It's money in pocket to take care of your animals, an 'horses is the delicatest things on four legs.
CHAPTER XXI 2010
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When she veils her dainty body of the delicatest grace:
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'Perfectly! your Irishman is the delicatest man upon earth to the fair sex; for he always talks of their cruelty, if they are never so kind.
Camilla 2008
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Ere served with hash and fritters hot, that delicatest cate.
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By this time the second couple was ready to enter the lists: which were a young baronet, and that delicatest of charmers, the winning, tender Harriet.
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Above all, the noting of the appearance of the first roses should not be omitted; nor of the Arethusa, one of the delicatest, gracefullest, and in every manner sweetest of the whole race of flowers.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 108, October, 1866 Various
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New England, rivaled the display of damask, fruits, liqueurs, and delicatest meats.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various
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Ho, saies the t'other, 'twas at the _Blew Boar_, where I drunk the delicatest Wine that ever my lips tasted.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
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It wasn't that she was especially pretty, but in her white morning-dress, with lace about her throat and her fair hair drawn back from her face, I thought she was the delicatest, softest, finest thing of man - or woman-kind I ever say.
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Emperiall_, is, of all flowers, both forraigne and home-bred, the delicatest, and strangest: it hath the true shape of an imperiall crowne, and will be of divers colours, according to the art of the gardener.
On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions Samuel Felton
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