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 J. M. (James Matthew) Barrie
She would even exchange all the elegancies and luxuries of life to feed on love and roses!
From Graham's Magazine, Vol. XXXII No. 4, April 1848 by Robert Taylor Conrad
The following incident, narrated by Franklin, illustrates a very important principle in political economy, which those are apt to ignore, who denounce all the elegancies and luxuries of life.
From Benjamin Franklin A Picture of the Struggles of Our Infant Nation One Hundred Years Ago American Pioneers and Patriots Series by John S. C. (John Stevens Cabot) Abbott
