subtilty
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His facile execution and singular subtilty of fancy were, we hoped, destined to enrich these pages for many a year.
From English Caricaturists and Graphic Humourists of the Nineteenth Century. How they Illustrated and Interpreted their Times. by Graham Everitt
Why stoop to the subtilty of circumspection, to spare himself the appearance of destroying one whose head, heart, and vitals, all feel the reality of the destruction he inflicts?
From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Fanny Burney
I must note here the subtilty of this retreat.
From My Path to Atheism by Annie Wood Besant
The Apostle recognises, beyond the subtilty of Jacob and behind the blessing of Isaac, the Divine retribution.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Thomas Charles Edwards
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 William Gilbert
A variety of ornaments, too, made their appearance, subtilties, they were called, and ornamental devices in pastry.
From The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by William Henry Giles Kingston
He had little respect for subtilties or refinements or scruples that stood in the way.
From Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 by George Frisbie Hoar
At dinner, he pecks at, rather than eats, ruffs and reeves, lapwings, or anie smalle birds it may chance; but affects sweets and subtilties, and loves a cup of wine or ale, stirred with rosemary.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 2, No. 12, May, 1851. by Various
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
By the subtilties of dialectic quibbling, he had attempted to prove that "change" meant "permanence," and "motion" meant "rest."
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
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