1 We reduce digestion to thought; we subtilise secretions.
2 My boy, do not listen to those who, like me, subtilise on the good and the evil.
3 I have tried to improve and subtilise my tales with the passing of years, but have not made the progress I wish.
4 What should not we see if we could still subtilise and improve more and more the instruments that help out weak and dull sight?
5 Fragile, spiritual as is the apparition, the sunbeam refines, subtilises , spiritualises it still more.
6 My body is no longer firm and terrestrial; it is resolved into its constituent atoms, subtilised , volatilised.
7 But now that she's more at ease with us-yousee?-there'sthe purity of line just the same-but subtilised - humanised - somehow !
8 We have not lost the generosity and dignity of thinking of the fourteenth century; nor as yet have we subtilised ourselves into savages.
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