The sunrise was gorgeous this morning; it is much finer to-day.
Among the baser spirits it was, of course, selfish and conceited, but it had a better and healthier effect on the finer natures of the few.
What interested Scott in Erskine and Robertson, as it did in all such human beings whom he ever knew, was the beautiful, simple goodness of heart, which was so much finer a thing than the fleeting glory of eloquence or power.
Nothing could be finer than the weather; it improved each moment, as if propitious to my exotic fancies; and, at sunset, not one single cloud obscured the horizon.
Nothing could be finer than the day; and I had every reason to promise myself a serene and delicious hour, before the sun might go down.
The little children of Bayreuth could do that with a finersympathy and a broader intelligence than I.
Man has a finer and more capable machine in him than those others, but it is the same machine and works in the same way.
As a whole, the great servers of men carry little excess tissue; as a whole in every fabrication of man and nature--the finer the work, the finer the instrument.
So that the white is a transition--an erasure of the old to prepare for the finer colouring.
Real manhood makes lowly gifts significant; the work of such a man softens and finishes him, renders him plastic to finer forces.
Ignorance is not alone the lack of knowing things; it is the coarseness of fibre which resists all the fairer and finer bits of human reality.
Every law that makes for man's finer workmanship makes for his higher life.
You must have gold or platinum points for the finest work; the brighter the light the finer the carbon demanded.
There is to-day an increasingly finer surface for the spiritual things of art and life, the farther westward one travels across the States.
Their matings are makeshifts; their brief honeymoons are matters from which the finer world turns its eyes.
Recently with six young people in the Study, I suddenly thought of the relation of teacher to student in a finer light.
Finer and finer, more and more immaterial and lustrous we become, according to the use and growth of our real and inner life.
The morning-glory is sweeter natured and somewhatfiner in colour than the petunia, but very greedy still.
We would shudder at all destruction and greed, and perceive as good workmen the excellent values of woods and coals and gases, and the finer forces of the soil.
The lining of the ball-like nest, which has a side entrance, is made of finer fibers, hair and grasses.
The nest is constructed of fine grasses and very fine roots loosely woven together and lined withfiner grasses, hair and the delicate bark fibers.
The fame of the singing of the Wissan Bridge school had spread far and near, and it had been whispered about that there was to be a "piece" sung which was finer than anything ever sung in the Charlottetown churches.
There's no lady in a' Charlottetown can go finer than ye if ye've a mind.
Spite of her plans about a much finer bird in the bush, she was by no means minded to lose the bird she had in hand.
They were not of the crudely comic type of Potash and Perlmutter, nor were they in the somewhat finer mood of sentimental humor which made Myra Kelly deservedly popular.
His version is in the terza rima, a difficult thing to manage in English, and he succeeds in making a good English poem, a shade finer than a mere tour de force.
Sixteen years ago Conrad was not universally recognized; some of his best work had not been done; and many finer essays than mine had not yet been written.
You know that the snow, finer than flour, is beating through your clothing.
And yet dogs and cats get credit for being creatures of finer feelings than cows, merely because cows have no tricks of barking, purring, and the like.
Had it been true none would have known of it, and he must have been a finer man--with more beauty and more wit.
You were the finer creature and less disturbed by poor worldly dreams.
In thy eyes 'tis a finer mop than any other man's French periwig, all know.
She was a finer creature than ever, and at present was the richest widow in England.
The closer one looks at it the finer does its warp and woof appear, beautiful and durable, a model piece of handiwork!
Such errata or omissions throw a finer light on his character than controlling perfection would do.
Illustration: With the herrings and broth at his heels] And now he set up a farmhouse far finer than the one in which his brother lived, and with the mill he ground so much gold that he covered it with plates of gold.
It was far larger and finer than that which came the year before, and it had a saddle on its back, and a bridle on its head, and a full suit of mail for a knight lay by its side, all of silver, and as splendid as you would wish to see.
The stuff of which poets are made, whether finer or not, is of a very different fibre from that which is used in the tough fabric of martyrs.
The finer threads are used for sewing the beads and quill ornaments on moccasins, sheaths, and pouches, besides other things that I cannot now think of.
Then, taking an end of it in her hand, she made Lady Mary observe that these coarse threads could be separated into a great number of finer ones, sufficiently delicate to pass through the eye of a fine needle, or to string tiny beads.
Indeed, my lady, you will not want for amusement there, for England and Scotland are finer places than Canada.
The green and coppery lustre of the feathers is also finer in the male bird.
The male displays the finer colours--the ruby necklace being confined to the old male bird.
I have been noticing," remarked Skelton, "that instead of reaching a finer climate we seem to be coming into a very poisonous atmosphere, judging by the odour of the vegetation.
Nothing can be finer than the view up this noble roadway, and praise is due to authorities who have ordained that the banal electric tramcars shall take with them into side streets the blighting vulgarity of their whizzing bustle.
A small variety of the former, the banana-apple (Musa paradisiaca), has a flavour finer than the Canary banana.
To this note, after a day or two, the Baroness replied by a letter so beautifully worded, I doubt whether Madame de Sevigne could have written in purer French, or Madame de Steel with a finer felicity of phrase.
But I have a family, and we live in enlightened times, when children require a finer education than their parents had.
Although the outer surface of the pottery of this class is rough, the general form of the ware is not less symmetrical than that of the finer vessels.
Many were made of very coarse stone[89] for use in hulling corn preparatory to grinding; others were of finer texture, and both kinds were accompanied by the corresponding mano or muller held in the hand in grinding meal.
The fragments represented in classes IV and V were made of a much finer clay, and the surface bears a gloss, almost a glaze.
Oh, no, papa, I am not indisposed; I never enjoyed a finer state of health, or greater elevation of feeling than I do at this moment.
I was at Drury last night, and never had a finer treat.
It was made of much finer gold than rings usually are.
O Sire, thou struckest full manfully; But I saw a finerstroke in days gone by.
Of course many people say-- But those that say such things are either brutes with no finer sensibilities, or else they are liars, or else they never had any wild oats.
Each class has a dance committee, who fly around and work hard to make their dance finer than the last one, and generally succeed.
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last.
The old gentleman thought that two handsomer or finer young fellows could scarcely stand side by side than those on whom he looked with so much pleasure.
