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• The ming vase drops with a delicate crash.
• Drop the vase and it will become a ming of the past.
• Drop the vase and it will become a Ming of the past. -- The Adventure
• Time, because it is so fleeting, time, because it is beyond recall, is the most precious of human goods and to squander it is the most delicate form of dissipation in which man can indulge.
  -- W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965), "The Bum...
• The idea of her life shall sweetly creep Into his study of imaginatio
  And every lovely organ of her life, Shall come apparell'd in more precious habit, More moving-delicate and full of life Into the eye and prospect of his soul....
• SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment.
  For fish it is made strong and coarse, but women are more easily taken with a singularly delicate fabric weighted with small, cut stones....
• No dog will knock a vase over unless it has water in it.
• The vase is now resting, delicately, on a velvet pillow.
• You have taken the vase and hurled it delicately to the ground.