This is the mystery of that noble trade, which yet no master can teach to his apprentice; he may give the rules, but the scholar is never the nearer in his practice; neither is it true, that this fineness of raillery is offensive.

If you've been worth living, there are more elements of fineness in humanity.

The best of our British wools are inferior in fineness to any of the above-mentioned, being nearly twelve times the thickness of the finest Spanish merino; but for the ordinary purposes of the manufacturer, they are unrivalled.

There was a sort of passionate fineness about her that caught and answered some instinct in Harber ...

And there was the face indeed, a sad, serious face, dark and sweet, yet the image of Faith, and with the same mouth,that so lovely in a woman becomes weak in a man,and on the other side there were a few threads of hair, with the same darkness and fineness as Faith's hair, and under them a little picture chased in the gold and enamelled, which, from what I've read since, I suppose must have been the crest of the Des Violets.

For each kind of metal money there is an established ratio of fineness for the more precious material, which is mixed with baser metals used as alloys.