elegancies
Example Sentences
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He consorted with English lords, rode to hounds, learned to love foppery and all the elegancies, became a past master of dancing, of gambling, polite drinking and exquisite flirtation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Speeches were always in order—the smooth elegancies of a Davis, the high-flown outpourings of a Harvey, the salty blasts of a Dawes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Amidst these rural elegancies which Shenstone was raising about him, his muse has pathetically sung his melancholy feelings— But did the Muses haunt his cell, Or in his dome did Venus dwell?—
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
But a similar internal gift must direct the skill of every fancy-artist who subserves the luxuries and elegancies of life.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
We wish that, amid the elegancies of this hall, we could bring up before you some of the scenes of our past life.
From Leading Articles on Various Subjects by Davidson, John
