subtilty
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Lowell's best prose—in "Fireside Travels," for example—has similar qualities, and adds to them a surprising delicacy of wit and subtilty of phrase, while it has less movement and less of rhythmical emphasis.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
Boyle's tracts of the years 1673 and 1674 on "effluviums," their "determinate nature," their "strange subtilty," and their "great efficacy," are examples.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
But the fineness, the subtilty, the changefulness of line, are endlessly charming; they may have other uses, but if they had been made for pure beauty it would be use enough.
From With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 3 by Various
The adoption of this ingenious device to avoid compliance with unnatural obligations, affords an instance of the singular duplicity into which the subtilty of pious craft may betray human nature.
From Monks, Popes, and their Political Intrigues by Alberger, John
I, Wisdom, have made subtilty my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion.
From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall
Mr. St. John Harper's pictures are a trifle obscure; but their obscurity veils their want of pertinence and suggests subtilties that flatter the imagination into fitting the application to suit itself.
From Lippincott's Magazine, December, 1885 by Various
It was a great contrast to the subtilties of analysis, the philosophic strainings of which I had seen too much.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Fuller, Arthur B.
We all went in, and there they made us goodly cheer with diverse subtilties, as comfits and march-panes and sweet wines.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by Allen, P. S. (Percy Stafford)
You do yet taste Some subtilties o’ the isle, that will not let you V. 1.
From The Tempest The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.] by Glover, John, librarian of Trinity College, Cambridge
On the dangerous pretext of equity, they eluded the law by various subtilties or fictions; and thus, without being endued with legislative authority, they abrogated ancient enactments according to caprice.
From History of Roman Literature from its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age. Volume II by Dunlop, John
