Example Sentences

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He never even talked of love, but there are modes of making it more eloquent than language, and which convey it subtilely and irresistibly to the heart.

From The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon by Irving, Washington

Sweet Lilith! how she had subtilely intertwined herself within his life!

From The Sign of the Spider by Mitford, Bertram

You do not cast subtilely over a fish which you know is there, but you swish, swish, all across the current, with a strong reluctance to lift the line after each venture and try another. 

From Angling Sketches by Lang, Andrew

Her smiles, her piquant words, and, above all, the changing expression of her lovely eyes, affected him subtilely, and again imparted a rising exhilaration.

From A Young Girl's Wooing by Roe, Edward Payson

The Indian Girl Who Made Them   These, the Wings of the Morning,   An Indian Maiden wove,   Intertwining subtilely   Wands from a willow grove   Beside the Sangamon—   Rude stream of Dreamland Town.

From General William Booth Enters into Heaven : and other poems by Lindsay, Vachel