But then poor old Tuppy has never been very hot on the finer shades.

It intimates the finer want, Whose adequate supply Is that great water in the west Termed immortality.

From meaner minds though smaller fines content, The plunder'd palace, or sequester'd rent; Mark'd out by dang'rous parts, he meets the shock, And fatal learning leads him to the block: Around his tomb let art and genius weep, But hear his death, ye blockheads, hear and sleep.

The consequencesof a truthwould not be vastly severe for the frequenters of this secret club; fines mayhap, which most of those present could ill afford to pay, and at worst a night's detention in one of those horrible wooden constructions which had lately been erected on the river bank for the express purpose of causing sundry lordly offenders to pass an uncomfortable night.

On the other hand, Vergil's master, while he affirms the causal nexus for the governance of the universe: nec sanctum numen fati protollere fines posse neque adversus naturae foedera niti [Footnote 4: The passages have been analyzed and discussed frequently.

Secundum nomen tuum, sic et laus tua in fines terrae (ps. 47, v. ii).

Finer animals he had never seen.

And Mr. Philips by a poetical creation, hath raised up finer beds of flowers, than the most industrious gardener; his roses, lilies, and daffadils, blow in the same season.

The bad wine is so very bad, that we catch ourselves wondering whether the finer brands were genuine, when we see the same palate equally satisfied with both.

At ten years of age we are all quite sure that piracy is a finer calling than trade, and the pirate a finer fellow than the Shylock who owns the shipwhich, indeed, he may well be.

THERE NEVER WAS A FINER GIRL THAN DINAH, DOWN BY THE OHIO!"

But honest, Mrs. Weston, I never did see a finer-lookin' girl than your girl.

I never saw finer oaks and beeches.

Shakspere, indeed, like all great poets, invented no new form of literature, but touched old forms to finer purposes, refining every thing, discarding nothing.

Sweet saints, it is no sin or blame To love a man of virtuous name. Did never Love so sweetly breathe In any mortal breast before: Did never Muse inspire beneath A Poet's brain with finer store.

The most skilful female weaver of the finer stuffs obtains twelve reals per piece; but it takes a month to weave; and the month, on account of the numerous holy-days, must be calculated at the most as equal to twenty-four working days; she consequently earns one-fourth real per day and her food.

Only to lie with the window open was to breathe air of a keener purity, a finer temper, a more exhilarating freshness, than had ever before entered my lungs; and to get up and look out of the window was to peer into the limpid brilliance of a gigantic crystal, where the smallest object was in startling focus, and the very sunbeams cut with scissors.

Now in his happiest light is seen VOLTAIRE, when evening chas'd his spleen, And plac'd at supper with his friends, The playful flash of wit descends Of names renown'd you clearly shew The finer traits we wish to know To Prussia's martial clime I stray

No finer trees grow anywhere, and one loves to see them so prized.

The warm bath is peculiarly adapted to prevent these circumstances by its increasing our irritability, and by moistening and softening the skin, and the extremities of the finer vessels, which terminate in it.

If we look at document number eight in the same collection, we will further see the territory of Chiusi referred to as "fines clusinas.

Would earth's dark ocean suck thee down? Earth's ocean thou, O Life, shalt drown, Shalt flood it with thy finer wave, And, sepulchred, entomb thy grave!

At this moment my wife appeared, looking particularly charming in a mousseline de soie aux fines herbesanglicé, a sprigged muslin.

Having freed himself from fine-gentlemanism, he had quite unconsciously fallen the more easily a prey to fine-ladyism; all his conservatism had gone into that, as a man, forced to give up his garden, might cherish one lovely potted plant.