subtilty

What man can pause and charge this senseless dust With fraud, or subtilty, or aught unjust?

From Curious Epitaphs by Various

I, Wisdom, have made subtilty my dwelling, And find out knowledge and discretion.

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

O ye simple, understand subtilty; And, ye fools, be ye of an understanding heart.

From The Bible Story by Newton Marshall Hall

I often confuted his notions: often in our disputations I pushed a good argument so home, that all his subtilty was not able to elude its force.

From Letters of Abelard and Heloise To which is prefix?d a particular account of their lives, amours, and misfortunes by Pierre Bayle

The Apostle recognises, beyond the subtilty of Jacob and behind the blessing of Isaac, the Divine retribution.

From The Expositor's Bible: The Epistle to the Hebrews by Thomas Charles Edwards

A variety of ornaments, too, made their appearance, subtilties, they were called, and ornamental devices in pastry.

From The Golden Grasshopper A story of the days of Sir Thomas Gresham by William Henry Giles Kingston

She was not deterred by fallacious subtilties, deducted from pretended conventions, out of age and opportunity, to hinder her laudable and patriotic course.

From England, Canada and the Great War by Louis-Georges Desjardins

Professors, most of them ecclesiastics, lectured on all the foolish subtilties of the learning of the day to crowds of students collected from every quarter of Europe.

From Women of Mediæval France Woman: in all ages and in all countries Vol. 5 (of 10) by Pierce Butler

Even an illiterate man is interesting when he talks of his craft, and Martin Collingwood, however little natural development he had in social subtilties, was anything but illiterate or even ill informed.

From The Locusts' Years by Mary Helen Fee

It was a great contrast to the subtilties of analysis, the philosophic strainings of which I had seen too much.

From At Home And Abroad Or, Things And Thoughts In America and Europe by Arthur B. Fuller