He insists upon quality, he raises a standard, he diffuses an unconscious fastidiousness of selection.

But he offended her fastidiousness.

" I appreciated my fastidiousness when I afterward saw, at a Tennessee hotel, the following notice: "Gentlemen who wish towels in their rooms must deposit fifty cents at the office, as security for their return.

" For a moment Mr. Clarkson was tempted to claim a certain fastidiousness himself.

In 1759 he was made physician to Christ's Hospital, where, however valued professionally, he is charged with being brutal and offensive to the poor; with indulging his fastidiousness, temper, and pomposity, and with forgetting that he owed anything to mere duty or humanity.

"I know his fastidiousness on this subject, and from this time it ought to, it must be my study to try to please him.

The perceptions as well as the senses may be improved to our own disquiet, and we may, by diligent cultivation of the powers of dislike, raise in time an artificial fastidiousness, which shall fill the imagination with phantoms of turpitude, shew us the naked skeleton of every delight, and present us only with the pains of pleasure, and the deformities of beauty.

They sometimes affect a fastidiousness of stomach which is quite laughable, and not at all peculiar to the Germans, who are in general blessed by nature with especial good appetites; and they spend so much money that the English officers who have not had the advantages of plunder that these Prussians have had must appear by the side of them stingy and niggardly.

This, which will be the root idea of the whole poetry of this generation, was the dignity of nature in all her manifestations, and not merely in those which may happen to suit the fastidiousness or Manichaeism of any particular age.

It annoyed her fastidiousness to think that her own niece should be in any way associated with that kind of thing.