One of the bitterest trials the connoisseur has to contend with, is the consciousness that no amount of care and expense can guarantee him an absolutely flawless collection.
This splendid victory is due in part to the general superiority of the New Haven eight, but too much credit cannot be given to little Howells, who steered a flawless contest.
They not only know what it is, but their own limited experience has taught them what rapture it must be to write lines of flawless beauty.
And now and then we find a lyric offlawless beauty, that lingers in the mind like the glow of a sunset.
His charm for her had, perhaps, consisted mostly in the atmosphere of flawless security, which seemed to surround him--a glittering bubble of romance.
Large and flawless crystals are not common, as you may possibly know.
She sank and was upheld; she dissolved and was gathered together again, a flawless crystal.
Bella remained as a sign that it had once been, and that, given the flawless crystal, it should be again.
She had returned softly, seven weeks ago, carrying carefully her gift, as a fragile, flawless crystal.
It was not in any region of such happenings that she held him, but in the place of peace, the charmed circle, the flawless crystal sphere.
His great aim was to produce, not an extraordinary nor a complex work of art, but a flawless one; he wished to be all matter and no impertinency.
His art, sweeping over the whole range of comic emotions, from the wildest buffoonery to the grimmest satire and the subtlest wit, touched life too closely and too often to attain to that flawless beauty to which it seems to aspire.
To witness a performance of it is a rare and exquisite pleasure; the impression is one of flawless beauty; one comes away profoundly moved, and with a new vision of the capacities of art.
Beneath the flawless surface of his workmanship, the clever Duke eludes us.
The latter is not only flawless in its execution, but is animated with a pensive beauty of expression.
So the journey is like sailing through alternate tracts of light irradiate heavens, and interstellar spaces of the clearest and most flawless ether.
The seasons are confused; wonderful days of flawless purity are intermingled with storm and gloom.
White as the virgin snow on the summit of Mont Blanc--purer than the flawless diamond--and unapproachable as the furthest star!
Purer than theflawless diamond--unapproachable as the furthest star!
For instance, he might be born again, a thing of which he had lately heard talk; a contingency by no means flawless in prospect, since it probably meant having the mumps again, and things like that.
I tell you there has been nothing between us--never anything except the mostflawless idealism.
From her low chair near the window, Aunt Bell had just beheld the Doctor's erect head, its hat of flawless gloss, and his beautifully squared shoulders, progress at a moderate speed across her narrow field of vision.
For one thing, while the joy of living had hitherto been all but flawless for the little boys, the disadvantages of being dead were now brought daily to their notice.
The sensation would have been flawless but for Allan's lack of dignity: from the top board of the fence he held aloft in either hand a golden orange, and he chanted in endless inanity: Chink, Chink Chiraddam!
XXXI Everything she saw, the stripped floor, the white walls bare but for some casts like the dismembered fragments of flawless blanched bodies, the inclined plane of the wide skylight, bore an impalpable white dust of dried clay.
As they drew near, the Terror's face recovered its flawless serenity; but Erebus was scowling still.
The Terror took it from her with flawless serenity and opened it slowly.
It exhibits in flawless perfection the gift that he had above all other writers, absolute beauty and pure action.
Everybody who has tried it knows that to be true with the flawless Rhythmic truth of health and illness.
The value of the glorious collection of pictures, flawlessgreat works, authentic, untouched since they left the master's hands, could only be proved in the fiery furnace of a saleroom.
Starratt started to wave a mingled greeting and farewell when his raised hand fell heavily against his side--in the polished depths of the bar's flawless mirror loomed the unwelcome figure that had pursued him all day!
Unfortunately, there is no prescribed formula pertaining to flawless success in relationships, and one is left to mimic the designs wrought by others or resort to one's own intuition.
A job's completion did not always signify a flawless result, however.
One of the attributes which gave Steve rare character was his flawless honesty with respect to one's appearance or annoying habits.
Norm was not the image of perfection; no one could be flawless in every sense of the word and remain a human being.
Not since the spade of the excavator uncovered from its shroud of earth the flawless beauty of the Olympian Hermes has such a delightful acquisition been made to our knowledge of Greek literature.
When Miranda was with her, roaming the still, transparent corridors, all the untroubled past came back, crystalline andflawless as of old.
Sappho was undoubtedly a far more flawless and perfect artist.
And soon that desire for perfection, which lay at the base of the Revolution, found in a young English poet its most complete and flawless realisation.
You still must cut and polish it until it is a flawless gem that flashes from the stage.
The song-poem that gleams like a flawless gem will have a wider and more lasting success--all other things being equal.
Little beaded straps held it to the flawless shoulders, and Norma made her two attendants laugh as she jerked and fussed at the gold lace and tiny satin roses that crossed her breast.
Rose was employed in an office whose severe and beautiful interior decoration had cost thousands of dollars, and Norma's Old Book Room was a study in dull carved woods, Oriental rugs, dull bronzes, and flawless glass.
The round red moon hung on the breast of a flawless night, whose feet were hidden in an amethystine haze that covered the marshes and the sea, and changed the lit liners going from Tilbury to floating opals; and within the house was Richard.
She had always known that the existence of Richard and herself and Roger was conditional upon their maintenance of a flawless behaviour.
The thought of Chilcote and of the one flaw in their otherwise flawless scheme rose to his mind.
It seemed to each man that he looked not at the face of another, but at his own face reflected in a flawless looking-glass.
Beyond doubt there is something in the flawless blessedness of such moments that links our mortality with super-terrestrial states of being.
The familiarity of all its members with this flawless and catholic image is to ward off in each generation that tendency to deteriorate and to become materialised which belongs to all 'traditions.
Such a flawless character is identical with itself: wherever it is touched, it can be tested and approved.
