elegancy

Example Sentences

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There was indeed little in common between what we may venture to call the pedantry of Germany and the superficial elegancy of the Jesuit schools.

From The Unity of Civilization by Various

However, he is a fanciful man, and thinks there is no 220 elegancy nor wit but in his own way of talking.

From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac

Lord Bacon, in his essay "Of Gardens," says, "When ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection."

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 66, April, 1863 by Various

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 Arthur, T. S. (Timothy Shay)

Never did the captain sacrifice force to elegancy of expression.

From The Land of Frozen Suns by Sinclair, Bertrand W.