elegancies
Example Sentences
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He consorted with English lords, rode to hounds, learned to love foppery and all the elegancies, became a past master of dancing, of gambling, polite drinking and exquisite flirtation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Speeches were always in order—the smooth elegancies of a Davis, the high-flown outpourings of a Harvey, the salty blasts of a Dawes.
From Time Magazine Archive
Music, embroidery, the backboard, and all the elegancies of the mind.
From Quality Street A Comedy by Barrie, J. M. (James Matthew)
This capital is certainly unsurpassed by any of the British colonies in the elegancies and luxuries of modern civilization, such as broad avenues, palatial dwellings, churches, colossal warehouses, banks, theatres, and public buildings and pleasure-grounds.
From Under the Southern Cross or Travels in Australia, Tasmania, New Zealand, Samoa, and Other Pacific Islands by Ballou, Maturin Murray
She was indeed a most elegant caligrapher, whom Roger Ascham107 had taught all the elegancies of the pen.
From Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 3 by Disraeli, Isaac
