" Gifford glanced at the worried face of the big, simple-minded sportsman, more or less a child in his knowledge of the subtleties of human nature, and as he did so his heart smote him.

Hast thou peradventure any subtleties in perfumery?

His intellect spurned the subtleties by which men attempt to blind themselves to this open contradiction.

Are there no statesmen in Venice who might better fit the dignity of so great an office?" "Think not to teach subtlety to the Signoria, my Lady Laura!

He divides an halfpenny loaf with more subtlety than Keckerman, and sub-divides the à prima ortum so nicely, that a stomach of great capacity can hardly apprehend it.

Now, there is Geneva, a town given to subtleties as ingenious and complicated as the machinery of their own watches; it can never have a merry-making without a leaven of disputation and reason, two as damnable ingredients in the public humor as schism in religion, or two minds in a ménage.

Advantage was therefore taken of this subtlety for introducing a precedent, by which the see of Canterbury, the most important dignity in the church after the papal throne, should ever after be at the disposal of the court of Rome.

Such was the rationalistic explanation which the ispravnik gave of the curious delusion known as the "Anadyrski bol"; and although it argued more subtlety on the part of the women and more credulity on the part of the men than I had supposed either sex to be capable of, I could not but admit that the explanation was a plausible one, and accounted satisfactorily for most of the phenomena.

What every Conradist knows is that you can't compress that master of subtlety without losing the master's dominant qualityatmosphere; that it's not so much the things he says but the queer way and the odd order in which he says them that matter.

He admires subtleties above all things, because the more subtle they are the nearer they are to nothing, and values no art but that which is spun so thin that it is of no use at all.

Unto you, sons of Aletes, ofttimes have the flowery Hours given splendour of victory, as to men excelling in valour, pre-eminent at the sacred games, and ofttimes of old have they put subtleties into your men's hearts to devise; and of an inventor cometh every work.

The author of this extraordinary work proved himself a profound anatomist of feeling by the subtlety with which he dissected a woman's heart."

There were no subtleties about Gilbert Ingleton.