http://wordie.org/words/deliquescent Comments for the word 'Deliquescent' http://wordie.org http://wordie.org/words/deliquescent#comments "'Don't listen to him, Ma'am, he's having you on; she's as stupid as a (h'm) goose,' came in a loud and husky voice from Mme de Guermantes, who, a great deal more 'old world' even than the Duke when she wasn't trying, often deliberately sought to be, but in a manner entirely different from the deliquescent, lace jabot style of her husband and in reality far more subtle, with a sort of almost peasant pronunciation which had a harsh and delicious flavour of the soil." <br />--<i>The Guermantes Way</i> by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, pp 664-665 of the Modern Library paperback edition Tue, 09 Sep 2008 22:58:52 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/deliquescent#comments http://wordie.org/words/deliquescent#comments "Even in Bergotte's books, all those Chinese puzzles of form, all those subtleties of a deliquescent <a href="/words/mandarin">mandarin</a> seem to me to be quite futile."<br />-- Within a Budding Grove by Marcel Proust, translated by C.K. Scott Moncrieff and Terence Kilmartin, Revised by D.J. Enright, p 62 of the Modern Library paperback edition Wed, 05 Mar 2008 02:37:46 +0000 http://wordie.org/words/deliquescent#comments