elegancy
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We were prettily received and entertained here, and an elegancy ran through every thing, persons as well as furniture, yet all plain.
From Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded by Samuel Richardson
There was indeed little in common between what we may venture to call the pedantry of Germany and the superficial elegancy of the Jesuit schools.
From The Unity of Civilization by Various
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
The elegancy of the style and the turn of the periods make the chief impression upon the hearers.
From Selected English Letters (XV - XIX Centuries) by H. Wragg
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
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 Maturin Murray Ballou
Our women’s wardrobes are made elaborate with the thousand elegancies of French toilet,—our houses filled with a thousand knick-knacks of which our plain ancestors never dreamed.
From Household Papers and Stories by Harriet Beecher Stowe
