subtilty

Example Sentences

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O ye simple, understand subtilty; And, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

Deliver me from the combined strength of those, who have so much of the Serpents subtilty, that they forget the Doves Innocency.

From Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings by Charles I, King of England

For ought not true art to work upon us like a higher Nature, without putting forth much ingenuity and subtilty, without all that complication of poetical affinities and philosophical finesse?

From In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. by Heyse, Paul

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

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

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 Everitt, Graham