I have said that our dinners were very good, luxurious in a simple way, everything excellent in its kind, well cooked, well served,the perfection of comfort without show,which is a combination very dear to the English heart.

One of them known as Ganga and Jamna is full of clear cool water which, the people say, is excellent for drinking.

It is the most excellent of all prayers, being most excellent in its author, its form, its depth of meaning, its effects.

Quin in Falstaff was as excellent as Garrick in Lear.

I gain, nothing by being with such as myself,we encourage one another in mediocrity, I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.

What, so excellent at Intrigues, and so dull at an Excuse?

This last consideration has already answered an objection, which some have made, that "Rhyme is only an Embroidery of Sense; to make that which is ordinary in itself, pass for excellent with less examination."

Not infrequently, the transition seemed to be from the excellent to the crude.

They are excellent after severe physical or mental work, and give a feeling of restful comfort like that of sleep.

A style may be excellent without grace: for instance, Dr. Swift's.

Perhaps he had been minded from the first as he later appeared to feel, and had been merely shamming as long as Germanicus existed because he saw that he was lying in wait for the leadership; or perhaps he was excellent by nature but drifted into vice when he was deprived of his rival.

The primary school system is excellent on its literary, not so excellent on its technical side.

He is excellent over a glass of grog; just as pleasant without it; laughs when he hears a joke, and when (which is much oftener)

The contact between the French and British forces was excellent throughout the fight; in fact, the perfect co-operation of the two armies continued to be one of the minor wonders of the war.

No Opportunity of this Kind ought to be neglected; and a modest Behaviour should alarm us to examine whether we do not lose something excellent under that Disadvantage in the Possessor of that Quality.

But Raphael, excelling in all things, is here excellent above all; his angels combine in a higher degree than any other, the various faculties and attributes in which the fancy loves to clothe these pure, immortal, beatified creatures.

On the whole, if she consulted her taste, she would have preferred a younger hero; she would rather be the Fornarina for a Raffaello; she had fancied her name sweetening the songs of Giraud Riquier, the last of the Troubadours; and she did not believe Beatrice Portinari to be so excellent among women, so different from other girls, that her name should have soared so far aloft with that escutcheon of the golden wing on a field azure.

Looking at the whole tribe from a Ration-al point of view, however, we have no hesitation in pronouncing them excellent foodfor powder.

Boath for her outward feature And for her inward graces excellent Beyond compare, shee lykewyse is to us A worthy benefactor.

In America where "everybody is as good as anybody else," and, as the Irishman added, "better too," such exalted ideas of loyalty as we feel for our sovereign may be deemed "excellent within certain bounds," but preposterous as encouraged among us.

They are compiled from excellent sourcesfrom able articles in the agricultural journals of the day, from Washington's Directions to his Overseers, and from personal experience.

He is still in the section, being recognized as an excellent blacksmith despite his more than four-score years.