I might have known thee by that pretty maiden air of thine--that dainty, finicking manner of gait.
There is nothing finicking about this seventeenth-century farmhouse furniture.
There is nothing finicking in this type of furniture.
Mr. Wemyss would call them, she was sure, a finicking lot.
I can't have you having all sorts offinicking ideas about not doing this and not doing the other before servants.
You're too finicking and high-strung and fanciful for a prosaic world.
You Haystouns are high-strung, finicking people, on whom idleness sits badly.
And what has a lawyer to do with a dainty lady, who will constantly distract him with finicking civilities and speculations in unprofitable regions?
He may have reasoned that so finicking an accomplishment was not worth acquiring.
The dressed-up, finickingcarpet skipper was fully his own equal in pluck, and in cool-headedness immeasurably his superior.
A month ago no one had ever heard of him, and now here he was, with his damned finicking ways and smooth tongue, thinking that all the world was made for him.
Mrs. Tams, indeed, could not divide a minute into halves, and was apt to regard a preference for a certain consistency in a boiled egg as merely finicking and negligible.
And the fellow was so polite and so persuasive, with his finicking eloquence.
The little, finicking man addressed no one in particular, but seemed much concerned lest we should not fully comprehend his respectability, though in truth he might have passed easily enough for a fool.
Pretty talk and finicking manners, that's all there is to him, except a few fool notions about the mining business which he hasn't the grit or ability to carry out.
