To confiscate land is only to take one's own, Mr. George has no difficulty about the sound of the word, nor is he troubled by any Subtleties as to the length it is proper to go in the work.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
It was almost as though it had been a cake or a pie, and he knew that he had found her questions difficult to answer and that he had had it driven in upon him that it was not really because she was interested in the Subtleties of his art that she enquired but because of her own personal affection for him; if he had been making boots or a suit of clothes it would have been just the same.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole
When she wasn't there I tried to reason myself out of these Subtleties.
"The Greater Inclination"
Edith Wharton