tenuity
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Around the Lamasery rise, numerous and without order, towers or pyramids, slender and tapering, resting generally on huge bases, little in harmony with the tenuity of the constructions they support.
From Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] by Evariste Regis Huc
In the Geological Museum are also specimens of Berlin and Ilsenburg manufacture; they serve to point the moral that ingenuity is not art, nor tenuity refinement.
From Arts and Crafts Essays by Members of the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society by Various
With all Shelley’s splendid imagery and colour, I find a sort of tenuity in his poetry.”
From Tennyson and His Friends by Various
What is it for a man to set his thoughts on sublunary things but, as it were, a tenuity of mind?
From The Homilies of the Anglo-Saxon Church Containing the Sermones Catholici, or Homilies of ?lfric, in the Original Anglo-Saxon, with an English Version. Volume I. by Abbot of Eynsham Aelfric
The travelling organs, moreover, increase in size in proportion to the tenuity of the fluid to be acted upon.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 5 "Fleury, Claude" to "Foraker" by Various
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