subtilty
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Lowell's best prose—in "Fireside Travels," for example—has similar qualities, and adds to them a surprising delicacy of wit and subtilty of phrase, while it has less movement and less of rhythmical emphasis.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various
I often confuted his notions: often in our disputations I pushed a good argument so home, that all his subtilty was not able to elude its force.
From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Pierre Bayle
I, Wisdom, have made subtilty my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion.
From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall
And yet one last observation I would like to make, remembering Bacon's subtilty, and how his every utterance is the sum of matured analytical thought.
From Garden-Craft Old and New by John D. Sedding
“Well, your majesty, you must meet subtilty with subtilty.”
From A Prince of Good Fellows by Robert Barr
By the subtilties of dialectic quibbling, he had attempted to prove that "change" meant "permanence," and "motion" meant "rest."
From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker
It was a great contrast to the subtilties of analysis, the philosophic strainings of which I had seen too much.
From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller
Furthermore, he lacked no fine deuises and subtilties to win their goodwills: as among others, the policy, and deuise of the hind.
From The Haunters & The Haunted Ghost Stories And Tales Of The Supernatural by Ernest Rhys
He had begun to dream of glorious subtilties of design and colour.
From Audrey Craven by May Sinclair
We all went in, and there they made us goodly cheer with diverse subtilties, as comfits and march-panes and sweet wines.
From The Age of Erasmus Lectures Delivered in the Universities of Oxford and London by P. S. (Percy Stafford) Allen
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