In a series whose basins lie in the same cañon, and are fed by one and the same main stream, the uppermost will, of course, vanish first unless some other lake-filling agent comes in to modify the result; because at first it receives nearly all of the sediments that the stream brings down, only the finest of the mud-particles being carried through the highest of the series to the next below.

This peculiarity has, perhaps, had some effect in giving their writers a magniloquence of style, something like that which so laudably characterises our Fourth of July Orations and Funeral Panegyrics: that composition being thought the finest in which the words stand highest.

Here make ground for a meadow; there, for a garden and grove, making it smooth and fine for small daisies and violets and beds of heathy bryanthus, spicing it well with crystals, garnet feldspar, and zircon."

The commodities of this second story are quite as fine as those below.

My body was purpler than a huckleberry pie, and my linen was torn into pieces finer than a postage-stamp.

Under the law a "voluntary army of workers" signed up as ready to go anywhere their labor was needed, and local munition committees became labor courts endowed with power to change wage rates, to inflict fines on slackers, and on those who broke the agreements of the "voluntary army.

The enthusiasts, who always possess that priceless treasure self-satisfaction, and a boundless capacity for wonder (which is always ready to exercise itself with anything that is big, however ugly), and the "Palaces," and "Halls," and "Cascades," and "Altars," and "Bridal Wreaths" they see there are not only finer than real ones (if you would believe them!)

Take the breast of the goose and cut the meat from the bone; chop fine with some onion, 1 clove of garlic, parsley and a little thyme, salt, black pepper and paprica.

II feel fine about it.

Old Preston looked fine to me in the clear air of that declining day.

If you climbed on to the former for the sake of economy because you could not afford to travel in the latter, you would be fined at the circuit mess, whose notions of propriety and economy were always at variance.

Every European vessel brought new cargoes of the sect, eager to testify against the oppression which they hoped to share; and, when shipmasters were restrained by heavy fines from affording them passage, they made long and circuitous journeys through the Indian country, and appeared in the province as if conveyed by a supernatural power.

There is nothing finer in all his poetry than the following stanza: "Ye stars!

"Maybe to-morrow, if you didn't back out, it would sound finer by the ocean, Lenie, but it don't need the ocean a man should tell a woman when she's the first and the finest woman in the world.

No Russian princess, no Tartar king, no monarch of the south, ever saw anything finer for consideration.

Apollo's upward fire Made every eastern cloud a silvery pyre Of brightness so unsullied that therein A melancholy spirit well might win Oblivion, and melt out his essence fine Into the winds.

"Just look at these lips, Joe," said Mr. Wood; "delicate and fine like our own, and yet there are brutes that will jerk them as if they were made of iron.

One might as well start to gather the hundred finest among the leaves of a forest, or to pick up the hundred most glittering grains among the sand on a beach.

[From the Knightes Tale.] Thus passeth yere by yere, and day by day, Till it felle onës in a morwe[40] of May That Emelie, that fayrer was to sene Than is the lilie upon his stalkë grene, And fresher than the May with flourës newe, (For with the rose colour strof hire hewe; I n'ot which was the finer of hem two)

"I'm feeling fine over it all."

She then begged the ingot of him, which he protested had been transmuted from lead, and flushed with the hopes of success, hurried to town to examine whether the ingot was true gold, which proved fine beyond the standard.

I married me to a clefer prima donna, unt composed a great opera, which vas finer as anything Herr Wagner has efer done.

Oh yes, it's a fine countryfor men.' 'Can't you import servants from England?'

If it rains, 'twill be fine before long.

Ole mist'iss had sont her ter town fer a week er so fer ter wait on one er her darters w'at had a young baby, en she didn' fine out nuffin 'bout Dave's trouble 'tel she got back ter de plantation.