Thou seducest, thou false one, thou
subtle one, to unknown desires and deserts.
The Pension Vauquer was dark, brown, sordid, graisseuse; but this is in quite a different tone, with high, clear, lightly-draped windows, tender,
subtle, almost morbid, colours, and furniture in elegant, studied, reed-like lines.
Most of his poems, other than certain political satire, which drew on him the Emperor's wrath, are full of
subtle sadness and fragrant regret, reminding one of pot-pourri in some deep blue porcelain bowl.
"But are they fully known?" Sergey Ivanovitch put in with a
subtle smile.
Her face was captivating by reason of a certain frankness of expression and a contradictory
subtle play of features.
The spell of the fair wind has a
subtle power to scatter a white-winged company of ships looking all the same way, each with its white fillet of tumbling foam under the bow.
It was gravely said by some of the prelates in the Council of Trent, where the doctrine of the Schoolmen bare great sway, that the Schoolmen were like astronomers, which did feign eccentrics and epicycles, and such engines of orbs, to save the phenomena; though they knew there were no such things; and in like manner, that the Schoolmen had framed a number of
subtle and intricate axioms, and theorems, to save the practice of the church.
Those sentiments have induced me to offer to the unimpressionable doctor who attends on her my vast knowledge of chemistry, and my luminous experience of the more
subtle resources which medical and magnetic science have placed at the disposal of mankind.
His little dinners, in the settling of which Lord Henry always assisted him, were noted as much for the careful selection and placing of those invited, as for the exquisite taste shown in the decoration of the table, with its
subtle symphonic arrangements of exotic flowers, and embroidered cloths, and antique plate of gold and silver.
In a word, that accumulated knowledge which man inherits by means of books, imparted and transmitted information, schools, colleges, and universities, we obtain through more
subtle agencies that are incorporated with our organic construction, and which form a species of hereditary mesmerism; a vegetable clairvoyance that enables us to see with the eyes, hear with the ears, and digest with the understandings of our predecessors.
This distinction, though by no means a
subtle one, was yet too
subtle for Mr Clare the elder, and he went on with the story he had been about to relate; which was that after the death of the senior so-called d'Urberville the young man developed the most culpable passions, though he had a blind mother, whose condition should have made him know better.
He has no right to ruin my life and the happiness of my wife by
subtle threats, to hold those foolish letters over our heads, like a thunderbolt held ever in suspense.