elegancies

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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

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

When my wife proceeded, with her well-trained business knowledge, to compare the prices of the simplest elegancies recommended by Aunt Easygo with the sum total to be drawn on, faces lengthened perceptibly.

From Household Papers and Stories by Stowe, Harriet Beecher

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

The room was a mass of little luxuries—trifles too light and various to be describable, all the nameless elegancies of modern life, with its superfluities, its pretence of intellect, its discriminating taste.

From The Tree of Knowledge A Novel by Reynolds, Mrs. Baillie