Sentence:  He was one of the miserable little pretty <WSD>white-handed</WSD>, curly-headed boys, petted and pampered by some of the big fellows, who wrote their verses for them, taught them to drink and use bad language, and did all they could to spoil them for everything in this world and the next. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Characterized by delicacy and a pale-skinned beauty.