So she went a little out of her way on purpose to call at Taboureau the baker's in the Rue Turbigo--the finest baker's shop in the whole neighbourhood.
Shall I tell you what was the finest thing I ever produced since I first began to work, and the one which I recall with the greatest pleasure?
This is the finest food I've ever had," declared Greg Holmes, swallowing another mouthful of trout and leaning back with a contented sigh.
He's already the most capable sub-master in Gridley High School and the finestcoach the Gridley football squad ever had.
She adores them, though, especially the boy, and no wonder, for he is one of the finestlittle fellows I have ever seen.
The little girls were then carefully helped up the ladder, and in less than three minutes the whole party was standing, safe and dry, on the deck of what they afterwards learned to be one of the finest steam yachts in the world.
The finest sheep-dogs in the world are they, and one of the finest of his race was Cibolo.
No wonder that, under such a system of training and emulation, these people are thefinest riders in the world, and such they certainly are.
Our wagon train going weekly up towards Warrenton and the mountains, returning laden with flour, meat, and the finest beef we had ever received.
General Bonham was one of the finest looking officers in the entire army.
While still a young man, he was considered one of the finestsurgeons and practitioners in the army.
He was a splendid disciplinarian and tactician, and could boast of one of the finest companies in the service.
In this ride he came in contact with his old regiment in the United States Army, capturing its wagon trains, one laden with the finest delicacies and choicest of wines.
Peck, of the Quartermaster Department, were two of the finest looking men that South Carolina gave to the war.
About this time our brigade was reinforced by the Twentieth South Carolina Regiment, one of the finest bodies of men that South Carolina had furnished during the war.
Major Hard, who was killed here, was one of the finest officers in the brigade and the youngest, at that time, of all the field officers.
Great herds of the finestand fattest beeves were continually being gathered together.
He certainly was one of the finest looking officers in the army.
Most of the soldiers took the opportunity of visiting Lookout Mountain and feasting their eyes upon the finest scenery of the South.
Only one end of the gate was hung; and it lay diagonally across the entrance of what had once been a thousand acres of the finest farm in the Tennessee Valley.
There was that crispness in the air which puts one to wondering if, after all, autumn is not the finest time of the year.
The finest place I saw in Canton was the mortuary where the dead bodies of wealthy Chinamen are kept until burial.
On the contrary, a great proportion of the American people subsisted on it, and enjoyed as good health as if they ate nothing but the finest of wheat flour.
She was one of the finest frigates in the British navy, well manned, and commanded by one of their most experienced and gallant captains!
One of the finest poets of the East Side is now a mental and physical wreck, because he lived up to his highest principles--and neglected himself.
Gossip is not only the raw material of history, we were informed, but it is also the raw material of the realistic novel, and as I said before, the finest novels have been produced by the sons of Adam.
Thus, fancy, whim, suggestion, imagination are sadly neglected, and thefinest faculties are left behind.
I wonder if you know what it is to have a mocking demon within you to laugh and leer at everything you do, at every step you take, at your best deeds, finest words, greatest strides, noblest endeavors.
Each of the six movements is broadly designed and carried out with equal care and devotion, making this trio unquestionably one of Mozart's finest works.
The quartet just mentioned is one of the finest instances of the quality and extent of Mozart's genius.
The piercing eye of genius finds materials for its finest performance where a more superficial view reveals nothing but difficulties.
Deborah's, finest and silkiest of all, hung in soft auburn waves to her waist.
She had spoken the truth when she said she did not know Mr. Vivian, but she did remember that 'The Orchard' was a large place, and the house one of the finest in the neighbourhood.
The finest works of art belong to them, represent them, and have come from the corporation of priests, or the corporation of fighters.
Once castles and forts were the finest buildings; now exchanges, shops, custom-houses, and banks.
As for Lillie, she positively liked the widower, and thought him the finest gentleman of the very few who now called on her.
The finestgentlemen of the city would have done as much under the same temptation.
I ought to apologize to the municipal authorities for taking the finest fellow in the city away from the young ladies of native birth.
He keeps thefinest house and most hospitable board in this city.
To sum up, he was considered in his set the finest and most agreeable young man in New Boston.
There is not one fine or noble or high thing in me--and yet your vision of the woman who danced that night, who has played to you the finest music in the world is no illusion, but the truth.
He told me he has the finest polo ponies in India just eating their heads off.
If your husband would put me up for the Polo Club--I'm a good player, and I've got some of the finest ponies in India.
This recipe I purchased from a colored cook on one of the Lake Michigan steamers many years ago, and it is, without exception, the finest puff paste I have ever seen.
Sprinkle in a small pinch of salt and three-quarters of an ounce of the finest isinglass or gelatine.
This is considered the primest piece for roasting; also makes the finest steaks.
To one pound of finestpulverized sugar add three wine-glassfuls of clear water.
To five or six pounds of fine red raspberries (not too ripe) add an equal quantity of the finest quality of white sugar.
It is considered by butchers the finest steak, which they frequently reserve for themselves.
The officers reported that he was one of the finest and best boys on the street.
Port Jackson, thirteen leagues from Botany Bay, is unquestionably one of the finest ports in the world.
It is true that the finestbreeds have been imported by the Government.
In this he had been forestalled by Black of the Harbinger; and now again he was to find that a predecessor had entered the finest harbour in southern Australia.
It is true that it lacks the definitely indicated poetic basis that is a feature of the composer's finest work, but it is a well written and melodious composition.
Although the time at his command was restricted, the eight years of MacDowell's Columbia professorship saw the composition of most of his finest works.
All MacDowell's finest works require not mechanical technique only, but deep intellectual and poetical thought to bring out their finest qualities.
As a whole, the First Suite for Orchestra is not the finest of MacDowell's orchestral works up to this stage, but it stands alone in the style of its poetic subject matter.
The Sea Pieces contain some of the finest of MacDowell's suggestive tone poetry.
Nay, it is even doubtful whether the pianist's mind could always rise to the heights of fervent poetry and imagination whither MacDowell was often carried and the memories of which are embodied in his finest music.
Suggestive titles and verses are an outstanding feature of all MacDowell's later and finest works.
Most of MacDowell's finest pianoforte pieces bear verses in addition to titles, thus definitely indicating what the music is intended to suggest.
The sonatas, although not all of equal value, comprise some of the finest pianoforte music in existence.
It has a melodic and harmonic outlook of the exquisite poise that marks MacDowell's finest work.
The poetry of these studies is not of the composer's finest inspiration, but it is of a quality sufficient to prevent their being viewed solely as technical exercises.
These two choruses are some of the finest of MacDowell's little known part-songs for male voices, and are both written to his own lines.
It searched out his finest and deepest inspiration when he wrote it and it grew to be part of his very being afterwards.
It is the finest and most mature of his orchestral works, thoroughly individual and without a trace of the nineteenth century German romanticism that is found in his earlier productions.
The First Pianoforte Concerto hardly ranks as one of MacDowell's finest works, it having been written before he had attained, in any notable degree, to his mature impressionist style.
The abbot ordered Tiennette to be fetched, telling his clerk to dress her in her finest clothes, and to make her look as nice as possible.
His philosophy amused his clients, to whom he would repeat, by way of thanks, the finest aphorisms of his science.
And rising suddenly from the table to prepare for bed, Gauttier showed to the Venetian the finest talisman to procure joy that he had ever seen.
You must take many words, and several of our human relationships, and put them together, in the finest meaning of each, to get near the full meaning of what God is.
When Aslaug had become a grown-up girl, there was not much peace to be had at Huseby; for there the finest boys in the parish quarreled and fought night after night.
But I could have lived in splendor with the finestgard girl in the parish.
Then godfather suggested that they should tell what they had dreamed the night before, and he would decide who had had the finest dream.
If I am any judge of men, Mr. Baker is one of the finest God ever made.
The finest impulses of humanity, rising above national lines, merely seek to make another horrible war impossible.
And that is just what is happening to a lot of the finest minds.
It stands for the finest thing in a human being--aspiration--the seed of the Divine.
Our club house is one of the finest old mansions in this city, formerly the residence of Schuyler Colfax .
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "finest" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: best; flower; optimum; peerless; select; superlative
