elegancies
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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
I want its elegancies, its refinements, and these one has so cheaply.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Lever, Charles James
At that moment I had no thought, either of the elegancies of Art, or the beauties of Nature; not even for its sublimities, displayed within sight on the snow-clad slopes of the great “Cordillera.”
From The Bandolero A Marriage among the Mountains by Reid, Mayne
Men in the middle ranks of life have more of the conveniences and elegancies than the princes and kings of the theological times.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green
