" CONNOISSEUR, (who really does know something about music, but who actually has no prejudices.)

"First the man who gave his name as d'Aurelle, but who was really a blackmailer named Drouet; second, M. Vantine, the connoisseur; and third, the creature Morel.

"Can it be possible Lord Bolton drives such elegant horses?" cried John, with the ardor of a connoisseur in that noble animal.

Mr. Heatherbloom's head tilted a little; he surveyed the detail with the look of a connoisseur.

They admired the magnificence of the Corinthian and Athenian temples, and regarded with contempt the old-fashioned terra- cotta figures on the roofs of those of Rome: even a man like Lucius Paullus, who shared the feelings of Cato rather than of Scipio, viewed and judged the Zeus of Phidias with the eye of a connoisseur.

He paused at the cross-roads to hear the end of the Sergeant's reminiscences of happy days when he, the Sergeant, (then full-private, full in more senses than one) had held the responsible position of beer-taster to a regiment at Jaipurbad ("an ideal drinkin' climate, Sir"), then, dismissing the old connoisseur, continued on his way bedward.

" He accepted my invitation as a gentleman would, sipped his wine like a connoisseur, passed me a few compliments, such as any French gentleman might toss to you, if you had asked him to join you in a glass of wine in one of his city's cafés, and then proceeded with his story.

He also trifled with horticulture, dabbled in tulips, was a connoisseur in pinks, and had gained a prize for polyanthuses.

Huge halls, long galleries, spacious chambers join'd By no quite lawful marriage of the arts, Might shock a connoisseur; but when combin'd Form'd a whole, which, irregular in parts, Yet left a grand impression on the mind At least, of those whose eyes are in their hearts.

He was living at the time, like his own Harold Biffen, in absolute solitude, a frequenter of pawnbroker's shops and a stern connoisseur of pure dripping, pease pudding ('magnificent pennyworths at a shop in Cleveland Street, of a very rich quality indeed'), faggots and saveloys.

Oi unaccented, sometimes has the sound of close or curt i; as in avoirdupois, connoisseur, tortoise.

Connoisseur ed.

Sleep no more: twenty masterpieces of horror for the connoisseur.

Sleep no more: twenty masterpieces of horror for the connoisseur.

Sleep no more: twenty masterpieces of horror for the connoisseur.

Sleep no more: twenty masterpieces of horror for the connoisseur.

Le Gaire was not the kind that wears wellhe could not improve upon acquaintance; and, while I was no connoisseur of women, yet I could not persuade myself that her nature was patient enough not to revolt against his pretensions.

Mukoki had taken the animal and was examining it with the critical eyes of a connoisseur.

A CONNOISSEUR

From the beginning of his life as a connoisseur he spared himself no pains, often trudging miles, when not wanted at the Admiralty Office, in search of his prey.

He was the connoisseur throughout.

Locker was a philosopher as well as a connoisseur.

Slowly, with the contemplative appreciation of the connoisseur, the Master absorbed the flavor and the wondrous stimulation of the "flower of paradise."

As for Captain Alden, he stood there a compact, small figure in his long coat with the rucksack strapped to his shoulders, peering up with the eye of the connoisseur.

As for Ludwig, connoisseur of the beautiful, he was her shadow and her slave, showering on her gifts an Empress might well have envied.