Shoulders and throat gleamed superbly above the line of golden satin; there were flashing topazes in her hair and about her throat; and the slender, arched foot in the satin slipper was small and finely moulded.
Her profile was stern and very beautiful, but the finely moulded lips had quivered.
It is very well to tell men to be on their guard against prejudices, not to believe facts on slight evidence, not to be content with a scanty collection of facts, to put out of their minds the idola which Bacon has so finely described.
Euphelia and Rhodoclea talk as finely as Imlac the poet, or Seged, Emperor of Ethiopia.
All the ground thereabouts was, as I have said, so smashed that the earth became finely powdered, and it was the arena of bloody fighting at close quarters which did not last a day or two, but many weeks.
You will have a moist time in some of the trenches," said the general (whose boots werefinely polished).
They fought stubbornly, grimly, in ground so ravaged with fire that the earth was finely powdered.
This patriotic attitude of some of the great property-owners, who had most to lose through the ravages of war but who were ready to risk all, was finely displayed in the very midst of the conflict.
Mr. Ferrara was a lawyer, a writer, a finely educated diplomat and an excellent speaker.
Partly of Negro blood, he was an equal honor to both races, and finely typified in himself their union in the cause of Cuban independence.
There is no standard, and one should not pay more than a finely pulverized pure limestone would cost unless he knows that the content of fresh burned lime is high.
It may be reasonably pure unslaked lime, or it may have less value than a finely pulverized pure limestone.
When quite pure, they contain 90 or more per cent of carbonate of lime, and have a value per ton about equal to finely pulverized limestone, and near half the value per ton of stone-lime.
Even if the fruit is not to the taste, the tree is naturally open-centered and round-headed, and is an interesting subject; some of the varieties have finely cut leaves.
The foliage is finely cut, resembling small locust leaves, and adds to the beauty of the plant, the whole effect being exceedingly graceful.
The leaves are finely cut, and in one variety variegated with white.
The best pump for Spraying is the one which throws the stream the greatest distance with the least amount of liquid, and the best nozzle is that which distributes the material most finely and evenly.
In fact, the Calla will growfinely in an aquarium.
They are suitable for consultation alike by the amateur or professional tiller of the soil, the scientist or the student, and are freely illustrated and finely made.
Mix well, add a teaspoonful of finely chopped tarragon and boil for two minutes.
That city is very finely situated, partly on an island formed by the Shannon.
Leaving Courtown, took the Arklow road; passed a finely wooded park of Mr. Ram's, and a various country with some good corn in it.
Before nightfall of this their first day in the wilderness, Alessandro had prepared for Ramona a bed of finely broken twigs of the manzanita and ceanothus, both of which grew in abundance all through the canon.
The baby's white robe, finely wrought in open-work, was also done, and freshly washed and ironed.
The chief existing work known to be by the second LUCA[14] is the very rich and beautiful tile pavement in the uppermost story of Raphael's loggie at the Vatican, finely designed and painted in harmonious majolica colours.
The purplish red of the sandstone at the base is finely modulated, through a pale pink in the second storey, to a dark orange at the summit, which harmonizes with the blue of an Indian sky.
His figure was tall and finely proportioned, and though a sarcastic smile sometimes hovered around his lips, the expression of his face was very kindly.
Altogether the book is most interesting, is finely got up, and is fully illustrated with excellent engravings.
The illustrations of the volume are numerous and finely executed.
Whoever upholds it is certainly fully authorized to apply to himself the definition which his favorite philosophy gives of man; to wit, that he is nothing more than a finely organized ape.
But these explanations are denounced as metaphysical merely to facilitate the reception of their finely spun theories.
Well, when the princess saw the cavalier so finely gotten up, and with such a splendid following, she recognized him, and told her father that he was her saviour!
She had never looked handsomer, or been more amusing, or played more finely than on that evening, when Mrs. Edgar gave a little party.
The character and conduct of an individual so qualified were naturally much speculated on and finely scanned.
Her stature was above the average height of women and finely developed and proportioned.
Miss Neuchatel had a sweet and tender voice, and it had been finely cultivated; she would have been more than charming if she had only taken interest in anything she herself did, or believed for a moment that she could interest others.
There were some ladies, on the lawn of the Cedars when they arrived, not exactly of their school, and who were finely and fully dressed.
What most distinguished her was the harmony of her whole person; her graceful figure, her fair and finely moulded shoulders, her pretty teeth, and her small extremities, seemed to blend with and become the soft vivacity of her winning glance.
But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results.
He was a clever fellow, finely educated, and kind-hearted at that!
The shore was lined thick with many other sorts of very strange and beautiful shells for variety of colour and shape, most finely spotted with red, black, or yellow, etc.
The kitchen wenches' conversation will be doing finely for me," says I, a little put out.
Taken as a whole, he approaches Mantegna and the Paduan School nearer than any other in point of taste; finely formed heads, fine colouring, fine attitudes, and almost all as finely foreshortened.
The soldiers "are finely executed, with the most natural and appropriate action that any figures up to that time had displayed.
He has a picture of St. Thomas at the Rosario di Cento, in the act of putting his hand to our Saviour's side, and the admiration both of him and the other apostles is veryfinely expressed.
Vincenzio is most conspicuous, in the act of freeing a female possessed, at the Domenicans of Faenza; a picture finely varied in the heads, in the draperies, and the attitudes.
Yet these are not excluded from royal cabinets, and that of Turin possesses one of Marsyas, a finely finished figure, before which is seen standing little more than the sketch of an Apollo.
The flank should be full, the loins broad, and the tailfinely formed and only partially covered with hair.
Horses partly fed upon this plant keep in good condition; it is usually given to them cut merely into lengths of half an inch or an inch, but it would be better to give it to them finely bruised.
The mace is made of silk, finely plaited with ribbons on the top, and filled with spices and perfumes for such of the company to smell to as desire it.
Erastus Root says Hamilton's words were so well chosen, and his sentences so finely formed into a swelling current, that the hearer would be captivated if not convinced, while Burr's arguments were generally methodised and compact.
On this occasion his mellow and far-reaching voice, keyed to the pitch of sustained rhetoric, dropped his well-balanced and finely moulded sentences into the convention amidst hearty applause.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "finely" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: famously; fine; nicely; right; splendidly; well
