1 She longed to be able to throw into her voice the facile passion of a light woman.
2 Carol had forgotten her facile hopes.
3 In a thousand ways he smoothed for me the path of knowledge and made the most abstruse inquiries clear and facile to my apprehension.
4 He invented a facile excuse, and having taken the vacant seat next to her, looked round to see who was there.
5 And there can be no more effectual means for checking calumny than by affording ample facilities for impeachment, which is as useful in a commonwealth as the other is pernicious.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VIII. 6 In this way the council was deprived of its facilities for stopping public business to the danger of the State.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER L. 7 But whatever he did was done with the aid of one of the counsellors of the tyrants, a certain Charon, through whom he had all facilities for executing his design.
Discourses on the First Decade of Titus Livius By Niccolo MachiavelliContext Highlight In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VI. 8 The facilities which nature had there offered to the march of the combatants were too obvious to be neglected.
9 Forts were erected at the different points that commanded the facilities of the route, and were taken and retaken, razed and rebuilt, as victory alighted on the hostile banners.
10 The prince had traveled a great deal, and considered one of the chief advantages of modern facilities of communication was the accessibility of the pleasures of all nations.
11 His own, at the moment, lent it a festive readiness of welcome that might well, in a disenchanted eye, have turned to paint and facility.
12 He gave most of the morning lectures, droning with equal unhappy facility about poetry, the Holy Land, and the injustice to employers in any system of profit-sharing.
13 Thereby, the whale commanders are enabled to recognise each other upon the ocean, even at considerable distances and with no small facility.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 71. The Jeroboam's Story. 14 And he could string oaths with the facility of a maiden who strings beads.
15 Certainly they will, in their gentleness, their lowly docility of heart, their aptitude to repose on a superior mind and rest on a higher power, their childlike simplicity of affection, and facility of forgiveness.