suavities
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Outdoors is more tractable to the director then the shifting suavities of the drawing room.
From Time Magazine Archive
Under all his gentle suavities there was a fixed, inflexible will, a calm self-restraint, and a composed philosophical measurement of others, that fitted him to bear despotic rule over an impulsive, unguarded nature.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 22, August, 1859 by Various
Owen observed that Mrs. Waterlow, while maintaining all the suavities of intercourse, did not address Gwendolen as dearest.
From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick
She yearned to give him what he had never had,—pleasure, joy, the soft suavities of life, what she had had always.
From Together by Robert Herrick
He was an educated, cultivated man, accustomed to the luxuries and full of the suavities of civilized life.
From In Both Worlds by William Henry Holcombe
