1 The lane passed into a pine-wood with boles reddening in the afternoon sun and delicate blue shadows on the snow.
2 In her face were too sharply blended the delicate features of her mother, a Coast aristocrat of French descent, and the heavy ones of her florid Irish father.
3 These latter young men were as anxious to fight the Yankees, should war come, as were their richer neighbors; but the delicate question of money arose.
4 The sky above turned slowly from azure to the delicate blue-green of a robin's egg, and the unearthly stillness of rural twilight came stealthily down about her.
5 She was more like her father than her younger sisters, for Carreen, who had been born Caroline Irene, was delicate and dreamy, and Suellen, christened Susan Elinor, prided herself on her elegance and ladylike deportment.
6 It was delicate embroidery if company were present, but at other times her hands were occupied with Gerald's ruffled shirts, the girls' dresses or garments for the slaves.
7 It would suit Carreen's delicate profile and wishy-washy expression perfectly, but Scarlett felt that it made her look like a schoolgirl.
8 There must be something in it, for Ellen said the same things, in different and more delicate words.
9 It was the same conflicting emotion that made her desire to appear a delicate and high-bred lady with boys and to be, as well, a hoyden who was not above a few kisses.
10 Thin as a rail and delicate enough for the wind to blow away and no spirit at all.
11 I forgot how delicate ladies are.
12 Her nerves, she said, were delicate and she could not endure noises.
13 It's no trip for a woman in a delicate condition.
14 It was not in Carreen's delicate nature to adjust herself to change.
15 Carreen had very little to say these days as she moved, delicate and wraithlike, about the tasks which were within her strength.