elegancy

Example Sentences

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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 Moore, John Hamilton

“I took fust-class when at school in the States for elegancy and deportment.”

From The Wreck of the Nancy Bell Cast Away on Kerguelen Land by Stacey, W. S. (Walter S.)

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 Hastings, Howard L. (Howard Livingston)

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 Sellar, W. Y.

Whence it comes to pass that all her gifts, elegancy, and graces corrupt and perish.

From The Praise of Folly by Wilson, John