Toward midday, after a long, tingling scramble through copses of hazel and ceanothus, I gained the summit of the highest ridge in the neighborhood; and then it occurred to me that it would be a fine thing to climb one of the trees to obtain a wider outlook and get my ear close to the Aeolian music of its topmost needles.

Your very Tears already have betray'd Its weak inconstant nature; Alcippus, should he look upon thee now, would swear thou wert not that fine thing he lov'd.

What a fine thing it is, they think, to be pious!

The road which follows the American bank of the St. Clair River is a fine thing in its way.

Actors, bring now a black jack and a rundlet of Rhenish wine, disputing of the antiquity of red noses: let the Prodigal Child come in in his doublet and hose all greasy, his shirt hanging forth, and ne'er a penny in his purse, and talk what a fine thing it is to walk summerly, or sit whistling under a hedge, and keep hogs.

I say esteem; for, as to applause, it is a youthful pursuit, never to be forgiven after twenty, and naturally succeeds the childish desire of catching the setting sun, which I can remember running very hard to do: a fine thing truly if it could be caught; but experience soon shows it to be impossible.

games.(And I too, by the gods; for it is a fine thing.)

I also wish indeed, for it is a fine thing.

What a fine thing it is to have a good heart!

It is a fine thing to say defunctus est; it means that the man has done his task.

They told me what a fine thing it was to be an Englishman, and about liberty and property, and all that there; and I find it is all a flam.

" As he folded the cot Mr. Hyde opined that worldly experience must indeed be a fine thing to possess.

It was a fine thing, that throbbing humanity, which could in those days burst the reformer out of the evangelical husk, and I learned my lesson from it.

It would be a fine thing indeed if we could mend all the broken jars in Dresden, we should then be soon obliged to shut up shop, and eat dry breadthrow away the pieces, child.

What a fine thing, what an American thing, that a man with no chance at all in the start should be able to develop himself so that a girl like Estelle couldyes, and shouldbe proud of his love and proud to love him."

Caleb was wont to say that "it's a fine thing to have the chance of getting a bit of the country into good fettle, and putting men into the right way with their farming, and getting a bit of good contriving and solid building donethat those who are living and those who come after will be the better for.

If he could combine a treasure hunt with his sea voyage it would be a fine thing.

I, who am a rough Man, am afraid the young Girl is in a fair Way to be spoiled: Therefore pray, Mr. SPECTATOR, let us have your Opinion of this fine thing called Fine Breeding; for I am afraid it differs too much from that plain thing called Good Breeding.

He only thought what a fine thing it must be to be a king's son, and wear such gorgeous clothes, and have so many servants at his call.

His character was so well known that it had long been forbidden, under the strictest penalty, for any boy ever to speak to him; yet, strange to say, they seemed to take a pleasure in doing so, and just now particularly it was thought a fine thing, a sign of "pluck" and "anti-muffishness," to be on familiar and intimate terms with that degraded and villainous scoundrel.

It was a fine thing to have such a footman as this one, so utterly different from the ordinary groom or footman, so extremely distingué!

I had begun to steal out at nights toonot on any ill errand, but that I might have the company of those about my own age'prentice lads and the wilder sons of burghers, who had no objection to my parentage, and thought it rather a fine thing to be hand-in-glove with the son of the Red Axe of Thorn.

When you first suggested it, I saw what a fine thing you were contriving for your brother.

That doesn't seem to me in itself to be a fine thing at all.

"Ah! it's a fine thing to be a public character," observed her father; "but even I aspire to some notice from the True Blue next week in consequence of having old Nicholas for my gardener.