elegancy
Example Sentences
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Here are only numbers ratified, but for the elegancy, facility, and golden cadency of poesy, caret.
From The Philosophy of the Plays of Shakspere Unfolded by Bacon, Delia
Whence it comes to pass that all her gifts, elegancy, and graces corrupt and perish.
From The Praise of Folly by Wilson, John
The elegancy of which universum, though it cannot be rendered in our language; yet leaves an impression of the Wit on our souls.
From An English Garner Critical Essays & Literary Fragments by Arber, Thomas Seccombe, Professor
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.
Altogether Chorillos is a very unpretending and altogether uncomfortable place, in which there is little room for elegancy or self-assertion, the President of the Republic himself occupying a wretched, dirty Rancho.
