subtilty

Example Sentences

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What presence of mind, what subtilty, what truth, in his replies!

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver

Why stoop to the subtilty of circumspection, to spare himself the appearance of destroying one whose head, heart, and vitals, all feel the reality of the destruction he inflicts?

From The Wanderer (Volume 3 of 5) or, Female Difficulties by Burney, Fanny

There was a terseness and massiveness in his speech, curiously blended with subtilty and fervor.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 92, June, 1865 by Various

Do you appreciate the subtilty of the compliment?

From The Story of an Untold Love by Ford, Paul Leicester

Boyle's tracts of the years 1673 and 1674 on "effluviums," their "determinate nature," their "strange subtilty," and their "great efficacy," are examples.

From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William