Nearby, at Penine Hart Antiques and Art, she found wobbly ceramic vases by Devin Dougherty that she thought would be good for holding a few delicate stems.
Museums at Harvard and Yale will be taking in a few delicate artifacts, like taxidermied birds and a mummy of an Egyptian woman who died of periodontal infections.
Surely that was enough time in which to hand-wash a few delicate scraps of lace and satin, and dry them on the radiator?
In recent months, the eurozone crisis has gone into another of its periodic remissions, as government borrowing costs have tracked lower and the continent shows a few delicate signs of economic recovery.
Working tenderly and cautiously around my self-esteem, as if it were convalescent, I cleared up — stacked most of the dishes and pans in the machine, rinsed a few delicate things, wiped down the surfaces and the cooker and the table, put the leftover food in the fridge.
In a few delicate paragraphs describing a woman learning to swim, all that will happen is crystallised and foreshadowed: Edna's discovery of her body, her power, her bliss as a complete and solitary human being beneath moon and stars, her embrace of an impossible horizon.
At the end of the meal, you'll enjoy tea, with a few delicate sweets or pieces of fruit.
Do they show off the few delicate daisies who happen to meet our societal standards as sex symbols, or do they promote those who can really play, the smashmouth golfers who have little regard for glamour, sex symbolism or anything else on their way to the winner's circle?
"We fixed most [crowns], but there are a few delicate ones that are still in the process of being repaired and might be permanently damaged".
Fitzgerald conjures what he wants to say by way of description with only a few delicate strokes of words: five crates of oranges and lemons turned into pulpless halves; ashes growing like wheat in the valley; silver pepper of stars; "shirts with stripes and scrolls and plaids in coral and apple-green and lavender and faint orange, and monograms of Indian blue".
