subtile

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Recent scientific discoveries have conferred upon man new powers of investigation, whereby nature has been made to reveal secrets so subtile that they never had been dreamt of before in philosophy.

From Scientific American • Jan. 13, 2013

At Paris the Universe is seen, compos’d of Vortices of subtile Matter; but nothing like it is seen in London.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton

The Märchen have a subtile flavor all their own.

From The Moral Instruction of Children by Adler, Felix

In investigating the mechanical effects of human action on superficial geography, we are treading on safer ground, and dealing with much less subtile phenomena, less intractable elements.

From Man and Nature or, Physical Geography as Modified by Human Action by Marsh, George P.

She was by no means sure if it were her own youth that had called her, conspiring in some subtile way with the push of leaves and grasses out toward the strengthened sunshine.

From An Ambitious Woman A Novel by Fawcett, Edgar