It is easy to see, too, that there is a natural order in which our wants follow each other as regards importance; we must have food to eat, and if we cannot get anything else we are glad to get bread; next we want meat, vegetables, fruit, and other Delicacies.
"Political economy"
W. Stanley Jevons
They professed to recognize an anxiety on the part of Mr. Andersen's aunt that his mind should not be diverted from the civil service in India by thoughts of young American ladies; but she sent some Delicacies to Elmore, and one day she even came to call with her nephew, in extreme reluctance and anxiety as they pretended to him.
"A Fearful Responsibility and Other Stories"
William D. Howells
Well, for a boy, Jim had not done so badly; though, to be sure, his sister did not seem to pay much attention to these Delicacies.
"Prince Fortunatus"
William Black