The curate took the coral beads from her neck and examined them again and again, and having satisfied himself as to their
fineness he fell to wondering afresh, and said, "By the gown I wear I don't know what to say or think of these letters and presents; on the one hand I can see and feel the
fineness of these coral beads, and on the other I read how a duchess sends to beg for a couple of dozen of acorns."
The rest of my cattle I got safe ashore, and set them a-grazing in a bowling-green at Greenwich, where the
fineness of the grass made them feed very heartily, though I had always feared the contrary:
To penalize a yacht in proportion to the
fineness of her performance is unfair to the craft and to her men.
It was just for this
fineness of perception, for this delicacy, that Darya Alexandrovna liked Levin.
Its merits as a prepartion for the hair are undeniable--it imparts to it a superb gloss and a silky
fineness.
Jane Porter was glad that it was to be so, and in her heart of hearts she wondered at the marvelous
fineness of character of this wondrous man, who, though raised by brutes and among brutes, had the true chivalry and tenderness which only associates with the refinements of the highest civilization.
Her lower features--the nose, mouth, and chin-- possessed the
fineness and delicacy of form which is oftener seen among women of foreign races than among women of English birth.
And John Barleycorn puts out the fire, and soddens the agility, and, when he does not more immediately kill them or make maniacs of them, he coarsens and grossens them, twists and malforms them out of the original goodness and
fineness of their natures.
Its skin, chestnut-brown above and silvery underneath, would have made one of those beautiful furs so sought after in the Russian and Chinese markets: the
fineness and the lustre of its coat would certainly fetch L80.
Of what moment was it to me, in filling the destiny of the linum usitatissimum, whether I grew in a soil a little more or a little less fertile; whether my fibres attained the extremest
fineness known to the manufacturer, or fell a little short of this excellence.
A table for eight, and eight canvas chairs; a table-cloth and napkins whose whiteness and whose
fineness laughed to scorn the things we were used to in the great excursion steamer; knives and forks, soup- plates, dinner-plates--every thing, in the handsomest kind of style.
All the deliciousness and
fineness of a finely bred woman was hers; but, for all he could discern, her mental processes were sexless and boyish.