subtilty

Example Sentences

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I, Wisdom, have made subtilty my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

I often confuted his notions: often in our disputations I pushed a good argument so home, that all his subtilty was not able to elude its force.

From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Bayle, Pierre

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

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

“Well, your majesty, you must meet subtilty with subtilty.”

From A Prince of Good Fellows by Barr, Robert