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

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

From Curious Epitaphs by Various

Garnet made a long defence at the bar; and on the question of equivocation he defended himself with much subtilty.

From Guy Fawkes or A Complete History Of The Gunpowder Treason, A.D. 1605 by Lathbury, Thomas

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

I must note here the subtilty of this retreat.

From My Path to Atheism by Besant, Annie Wood