tact

• [1135] This is shown in their tact, which is regarded as a product of their desire to adapt themselves to the stronger sex, with whose muscular strength they cannot cope. —  Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals
• The tact which is so important in a Pastor, and which is best learned and developed in the school of Christ's love, will see instinctively how to apply in preaching the experience gained in prayer, in conversation, in every branch of ministering life. —  To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work
• Unfortunately, however, for me she did not; she was entirely destitute of that tact which is the great secret of successful instruction; she had not the faintest conception of the desirability of investing my studies with the smallest particle of interest; and they were in consequence dry as the driest of dry bones and unattractive in the extreme. —  The Rover's Secret A Tale of the Pirate Cays and Lagoons of Cuba
• It gave Angioletto the deuce's own time now and then; but he might yet have weathered the rocks--for his tact was only equalled by his good temper--if the Countess had not precipitated matters. —  Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso
• He did so; and with that admirable tact which is so characteristic of him he chose for his theme--"Erin's Sons in England," a song which, written to the air of "The Shamrock," has, for many years, been sung at our Irish festivals in Great Britain. —  The Life Story of an Old Rebel

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