elegancy
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As to the correctness and elegancy of your writing, attention to grammar does the one, and to the best authors, the other.
From The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant by John Hamilton Moore
But yet, since princes will have such things, it is better they should be graced with elegancy, than daubed with cost.
From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Francis Bacon
The chief secret is the choice of words; 224 and, by this choice, I do not here mean elegancy of expression, but propriety of sound, to be varied according to the nature of the subject.
From The works of John Dryden, now first collected in eighteen volumes. Volume 07 by Sir Walter Scott
His utterance was not exactly fraught with elegancy, but it expressed the feelings of all.
From The Boy Ranchers on Roaring River or Diamond X and the Chinese Smugglers by Howard L. (Howard Livingston) Hastings
He speaks of 'his fine expression, elegancy, and quaintness,' and adds, 'he does so possess the soul with his graces that we forget those of his fable23.'
From The Roman Poets of the Republic by W. Y. Sellar
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
Men in the middle ranks of life have more of the conveniences and elegancies than the princes and kings of the theological times.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Robert Green Ingersoll
What I want is that life should be picturesque, that its elegancies should so surround one that its coarser, grosser elements be kept out of sight; and this is a cheap philosophy.
From The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly by Charles James Lever
But a similar internal gift must direct the skill of every fancy-artist who subserves the luxuries and elegancies of life.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
