elegancies
Example Sentences
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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
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
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
He threw his arm around her shoulders regardless of possible damage to the elegancies of her court costume, and kissed her heartily.
From Ethel Morton at Sweetbriar Lodge by Smith, Mabell S. C. (Mabell Shippie Clarke)
The thousands of little elegancies which Europe, Asia, and Africa had contributed to minister to the voluptuous splendors of the regal mansion, were speedily transferred to the knapsacks of the soldiers.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol IV. No. XX. January, 1852. by Various
