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"Don't you think my dear little Christine is an angel?" she said, without any encumbering subtility.

From Ladies Must Live by Miller, Alice Duer

Yet their subtility is more than may seeme to agree with their barbarous condition.

From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 04 by Hakluyt, Richard

Of hym that payde his dette with crienge bea.—Compare the story of "the subtility of Kindlewall the lawyer repayed with the like craft," printed in Pasquil's Jests, ed.

From Shakespeare Jest-Books Reprints of the Early and Very Rare Jest-Books Supposed to Have Been Used by Shakespeare by Hazlitt, William Carew

But it has been subsequently discovered that this definition was too narrow to comprehend the multiform shapes which allegory assumes, either in the subtility or the grossness of its nature.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Disraeli, Isaac

The British Ministry are exhausting all the resources of their subtility, if not of their treasures, to excite jealousies and diversions among the neutral, as well as belligerent powers.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various