Example Sentences
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They drink light, which is sufficient to give to their bodies marvellous strength and subtility.
From The Queen Pedauque by Stritzko, Jos. A. V.
What it lacks in vigor it gains in subtility.
From Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 01 by Brann, William Cowper
The Nurse is one of the characters in which the Authour delighted: he has, with great subtility of distinction, drawn her at once loquacious and secret, obsequious and insolent, trusty and dishonest.
From Preface to Shakespeare by Johnson, Samuel
He would sometimes conduct the mind with painful subtility through the multiplied steps of a long demonstration.
From The History of Dartmouth College by Smith, Baxter Perry
The prudence of the man of action and the administrator balanced his outbursts of dialectical subtility, often carried too far.
From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent
