He saw and felt the tempered fineness of her as something that would mind neither siege nor prayer.

Did he know a man capable of appreciating the fineness of a phrase, the subtlety of a painting, the quintessence of an idea,a man whose soul was delicate and exquisite enough to understand Mallarme and love Verlaine?

There was probably a secondary sense in every line of Shakespeare which would become apparent to all such as attained the necessary fineness of soul.

Looking to the returns, however, it did not appear that the sanitary state of the school was quite as good as it might be, considering the fineness of the climate; and I desired that some inquiries might be made on this head.

A Miss Nancy is a poet without genius, one who has a talent for discovering the fineness of life, but who lacks the wit to keep his views from ridicule.

He had never seen anything so pretty as Ally herself, in the rough gray tweed that exaggerated her fineness and fragility; never anything so distracting and at the same time so heartrending as the gray muff and collar of squirrel fur, and the little gray fur hat with the bit of blue peacock's breast laid on one side of it like a folded wing.

Abraham, however, insisted and besought, extolled the fineness of his sheep, declared his misery at being unable to cut it as I wished, and his readiness to conform for the future to whatever patterns of mutton 'de missis would only please to give him.'

In proportion as one conceives, or can imagine, the fineness of the musical endowment of a Bach or Beethoven, and in proportion as he can realize in his own mind the infinity of training and preparation which has contributed to the development of such a master musicianin such proportion may he comprehend and appreciate the unusual qualities and achievements of a man like Muir.

In January, however, it should be re-potted, filling the pots about half-full of pebbles or stone-mason's cuttings, over which should be placed good rich vegetable mould, mixed with a large proportion of sand, covering with a thin layer of the same material as has been put into the bottom of the pot; a top dressing of ground bones is said to improve the fineness of the blossoms.

The English spinner, too, can not only reduce his time one-fourth without stopping, but can reduce his consumption another fourth by raising his numbers and increasing the fineness of his cloth; and as he draws one-fourth of his supply from other countries, it is obvious that he might hold out for nearly two years without a bale from America.

Their features lack the fineness that one observes in New York and New England.

Inbreeding maintains a fineness of breed, but at the cost of its vigor.

Then followed in similar pantomime the choosing of a water-color pencil, noting carefully the necessary fineness of the point, and then the washing-in of a drawing, broadly.

Certainly, over the affair the Knights of the Round Table launched many a quip and jest, but that simply proved the fineness of their sentiments toward a certain delicate human relation which forms mankind's single awful approach to the creative and the holy.

The loosest gallants of Beaumont and Fletcher's theater retain a fineness of feeling and that politesse de cæur which marks the gentleman.

Spirit shines star-like in the giving of womanin the fineness and fullness which she loves into her children, binding glory upon them with her dreams.

The description shows the superior fineness of the abacá fiber, but not its greater strength.

You note his extreme neatness of dress, the bright, unhealthy restlessness of his eye, andas a beam from the sun strikes themthe fineness of his short red curls.

Cairns had found it hard not to be spiteful toward one whom he considered had abused his friend's fineness....

She held the stockings of tan silk before her, testing their fineness, their sheerness.