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- Just so subtly, yet with the same seeming suddenness had budded and come to leaf and flower a perfect understanding, which nevertheless remained undefined. [9]
- He loved too well the sweet intricacies of Spenser, the majestic and subtly interwoven harmonies of Milton. [6]
- Yet very subtly too did she attack him. [11]
- He went up to Mrs. Horn for a moment's hail and farewell, and felt himself subtly detained by her through fugitive passages of conversation with half a dozen other people. [8]
- Thee subtly took the one way which could have made me listen to thee. [11]
- If I decline the honor of being with you, believe me..." A shrewd, kindly, yet subtly derisive expression lit up Kutuzov's podgy face. [2]
- But is not that subtly true? [10]
- The devil interfered subtly, as usual--now in the person of Jerry Kyme. [9]
- And he was subtly aware, though she greeted him cordially, that she felt a change in him without being able to account for it. [9]
- Those were the stairs which knew her feet, these the rooms--so subtly flower-scented--she lived in; then came the narrow passage to the sterner apartment of the master himself. [9]
- She wore a simple summer gown, the soft outline of its flounces mingling subtly with the white clusters behind her. [9]
- But the sense of security has been subtly and indefinably shaken. [9]
- And he had, moreover, dropped the subtly sarcastic manner I was wont to associate with him. [9]
- It was the moment to convey a deep distrust of De la Foret to the mind of the old refugee, and it was subtly done. [11]
- A vague terror, maliciously born, subtly spread. [9]
- His manner of laying his hat, bottom up, on the table, and of unbuttoning his coat, subtly indicated the honor which he was conferring upon the place. [9]
- It is the imperfect love which subtly invites the siege, which makes the call upon human interest, selfishness, or sympathy, so often without intended unscrupulousness at first. [11]
- He appeared to impeach subtly every intelligence in the room for having had any preconviction about the prisoner's guilt. [11]
- He had scorched her soul by that letter to her, so gently cold, so incisive, so subtly cruel, so deadly in its irony, so final--so final. [11]
- She, too, in her feminine sphere, exercised, and subtly, a power in which human passions were deeply involved. [9]
- In several lessons he discussed subtly and vividly the art of the Egyptians, mentioning Champollion's deciphering of the hieroglyphics. [10]
- She could have found none more charming, none more impersonal, none more subtly aware of her wants (which had once been his) than Mr. Farwell. [9]
- The style was easy and smooth and flowing, yet there was something subtly foreign about it--A something tropically ornate and sentimental and rhetorical. [5]
- So subtly, so dispassionately indeed was he delivering himself of these remarks that it was impossible to tell whether he meant their application to be personal, to me, or general, to my associates. [9]
- The most that Dicky could do was to feel subtly before him a certain cloud of the unexpected. [11]
- Not that the church was at once mentioned, but subtly implied as now enlisted,--and emancipated henceforth from all ecclesiastical narrowness . [9]
- In that simple but exquisite gown which so subtly suited her, the creation of which had aroused the artist in a celebrated Parisian dressmaker, Victoria was, indeed, a strange visitant in that kitchen. [9]
- He was a born sentimentalist, and this became by no means subtly apparent to Kitty during Crozier's illness. [11]
- A man looked at her, twice, the first glance accidental, the second arresting, appealing, subtly flattering, agitating--she was sure he had turned and was following her. [9]
- All about her and the present there in Surprise Valley, and the dim yet subtly impending future, fascinated Venters and made him thoughtful as all his lonely vigils in the sage had not. [13]
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