As, in an increasingly visual and non-oral culture, linguistic elegancies fade, their revival and preservation seem worth the effort, even at the cost of a certain campy, parodic note.
She was a great trial to her aunt Felicia, who was a widow and well-to-do, and liked the elegancies and normalities of life.
Perhaps it was not fair to expect him to feel how very much he was her inferior in talent, and all the elegancies of mind.
Appointed Public Orator, or showman, of his university, Cambridge, he spent some years in enjoying the somewhat trifling elegancies of life and in truckling to the great.
With many it is a curious fancy, to dress Easter-eggs in elegant forms and keep as toilet elegancies.
When we were packing up the things to come here, our friends expressed their astonishment at our taking so many of the little elegancies of life.
