Example Sentences
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Boswell: I like Ogden's Sermons on Prayer very much, both for neatness of style and subtility of reasoning.
From Modern Essays by Harry Morgan Ayres
It is curious to note how Bryant's translation totally misses the intimate sense of the delicate subtility of the poem.
From The Book of American Negro Poetry by James Weldon Johnson
And his subtility, I'll put in: Yet he'll keep that himself, without the gods.
From Sejanus: His Fall by Ben Jonson
The prudence of the man of action and the administrator balanced his outbursts of dialectical subtility, often carried too far.
From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan
The qualities of a glorified body are four, viz.: brilliancy, agility, subtility, and impassability.
From Baltimore Catechism, No. 4 An Explanation of the Baltimore Catechism of Christian Doctrine by Thomas L. Kinkead