subtilty

Example Sentences

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Though now his fortune was low, yet he got another ship with craft and subtilty, and in it twenty-one men.

From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 3 by Whymper, Frederick

Lowell's best prose—in "Fireside Travels," for example—has similar qualities, and adds to them a surprising delicacy of wit and subtilty of phrase, while it has less movement and less of rhythmical emphasis.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 98, December, 1865 by Various

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

From The Bible Story by Hall, Newton Marshall

Isaac trembled and said: Thy brother has come with subtilty, and taken away thy blessing.

From The History of Antiquity, Vol. I (of VI) by Duncker, Max

Deliver me from the combined strength of those, who have so much of the Serpents subtilty, that they forget the Doves Innocency.

From Eikon Basilike The Pourtracture of His Sacred Majestie, in His Solitudes and Sufferings by Charles I, King of England