elegancies
Example Sentences
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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
He threw his arm around her shoulders regardless of possible damage to the elegancies of her court costume, and kissed her heartily.
From Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge by Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke) Smith
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
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 Robert Green Ingersoll
