elegancy
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He speaks of 'his fine expression, elegancy, and quaintness,' and adds, 'he does so possess the soul with his graces that we forget those of his fable23.'
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
“I took fust-class when at school in the States for elegancy and deportment.”
From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by W. S. (Walter S.) Stacey
Delight, or pleasure, as when one is entertained, or ravished with music, painting, oratory, or any such elegancy, shews itself by the looks, gestures, and utterance of joy; but moderated.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore
But yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
All her life she had been used to the elegancy that a wealthy parentage gave, and to which her husband had been, until within a few years, an entire stranger.
From Danger Or, Wounded in the House of a Friend by T. S. (Timothy Shay) Arthur
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
Charles Lamb mentions "saloop" in one of his essays, and says, "Palates otherwise not uninstructed in dietetical elegancies sup it up with avidity."
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
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 Isaac Disraeli
The following incident, narrated by Franklin, illustrates a very important principle in political economy, which those are apt to ignore, who denounce all the elegancies and luxuries of life.
From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
