On which murders, by the way, I must observe, that in one respect they have had an ill effect, by making the connoisseur in murder very fastidious in his taste, and dissatisfied by anything that has been since done in that line.

We challenge the minutest connoisseur to cavil at any part or parcel of the countenance in question; to say that this, or that, is improperly placed.

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.

Nevertheless, the voice alone had ensnared the connoisseur; it was, by the test of the pipe which he carried on all his quests, D in alt, and would thus complete the major chord of a chime which he had long been building up.

The young patrician was already esteemed a connoisseur in the most exquisite industries of Venice, and the Lady Laura had confided to her son the ordering of a set of goblets of girasole for the banqueta new opalescent glass, with iridescent borderings, such as had never yet been seen at any Venetian fête.

Prehistoric Pharaohs, mediaeval Pashas and the grandees of Elizabethan England esteemed them as such; and so great a connoisseur in household service as the Czar Alexander added to his palace corps in 1810 two free negroes, one a steward on an American merchant ship and the other a body-servant whom John Quincy Adams, the American minister, had brought from Massachusetts to St. Petersburg.

" "Ah, a very fine collectionpart of the Medici collection, and contains some of the finest Italian and Spanish specimens," remarked the blind connoisseur.

'Twill satisfy a connoisseur, This dainty thing of lavender; And when it clasps her fingers tight I thinkI wonder if it's right That somehowwellI wish I were Her little glove.

They wander without compass and without rudder, approving or condemning according to their friendships and antipathies; save those connoisseurs émérites, whose fine, sure taste and exceptional erudition are rarely able to supply a law and state a reason for their judgment.

Not only did he devote to it the greatest attention, but he also selected friendly connoisseurs with whom he carefully went over the work, most cleverly using their insight and judgment, and thus created a work which will go down as a heritage for all ages.

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.

" "And the restnot worth?" "Your stealing," simpered the connoisseur, and, reading, herself, added meditatively, "I should hate anyhow, for you to have that thing.

Withers had heard of a graceful neck, and white, dimpled shoulders, at the Athenæum; so accomplished a connoisseur as he must not let them pass unappreciated.

Mr. Whitelaw's chaise-cart was waiting for them; and they all four got in, and drove at once to Wyncomb; where there was another ponderous dinner, very much like the banquet of new-year's-day, and where the bailiff drank freely, after his wont, and grew somewhat uproarious towards tea-time, though Mr. Whitelaw's selections of port and sherry were not of a kind to tempt a connoisseur.