Now, however, you see she has quite changed, and you would never believe how much of Subtleness and womanly art lies hidden beneath those demure eyelids."
"The Dead Lake and Other Tales"
Paul Heyse
If we should die tomorrow; I hope her Majesty will find by our writings that the honour of the cause, in the opinion of the world, must be with her Majesty; and that her commissioners are, neither of such imperfection in their reasons, or so barbarous in language, as they who fail not, almost in every line, of some barbarism not to be borne in a grammar-school, although in Subtleness and impudent affirming of untruths and denying of truths, her commissioners are not in any respect to match with Champagny and Richardot, who are doctors in that faculty."
"History of the United Netherlands, 1586-89, Vol. II. Complete"
John Lothrop Motley Last Updated: February 7, 2009
It is not stupendous or remarkably awesome; but it is grand, with a Subtleness which is inexpressible.
"The Cathedrals of Northern France"
Francis Miltoun