There is nothing which requires more Nicety and Exactness than the finding out the proper Charge of a Gun; it is something similar to finding out the Tone of a musical Instrument; of which more in its Place.
This curious method, which is mechanical rather than chemical, depends for its success on the character and proportions of the materials employed, as well as on the nicety of working.
The latter being a nicety in legal morality which one would hardly expect of the fourteenth century.
We had, in all, fifteen caterpillars upon which urnaria had worked her will; and while a few of them fulfilled to a nicety the conditions which Fabre believes to be imperative, most of them were far from doing so.
This species kills her prey at the moment of capture, by which act she falls in the estimation of Fabre, who respects a wasp in proportion to the nicety with which she delivers her sting.
The work is tedious and requires skill, patience, quickness, and that nicety of judgment which comes with intellect of a higher order than is commonly found in the mill.
The object of this nicety is to secure a uniform height to all the types, and to facilitate the frequent changes of matrix on the mould.
Although the two sides of the mould are fixed so as to be immovable in the direction which determines the body of the type, they have great freedom of motion and nicety of adjustment in the direction which determines its width.
The matrices must be frequently changed, but with such nicety that the types of every letter shall be uniform in height, in line, and truly square.
This nicety in writing consumed much time, but the medieval copyist was seldom governed by considerations of time or expense.
With all his nicety of contrivance, the Greek had at the last moment forgotten to extinguish the lamp or take it into the house with him.
It requires the greatest care andnicety to couple horses correctly, for it makes all the difference as to the way in which they will go.
But we must be careful to observe, that the evil of them consists always in definitely attempted deception, and that it is a matter of some nicety to mark the point where deception begins or ends.
Gustulus, who valued himself upon the nicety of his palate, disinherited his eldest son for telling him that the wine, which he was then commending, was the same which he had sent away the day before as not fit to be drunk.
Too much nicety of detail disgusts the greatest part of readers, and to throw a multitude of particulars under general heads, and lay down rules of extensive comprehension, is to common understandings of little use.
I saw to a nicety what questions I ought to put, and how to put them; and nothing of all the ins and outs of this matter could escape me.
Every night, my dear boy, when your father was away, it has rested with you, and you cannot deny it, to settle to a nicety what there must be for supper.
But now we come to the great Nicety of all; that is to say, the Conscience of making a Conscience of using any Conscience at all: There's a Riddle for ye, Bumpkin.
To mold without nicety or elegance; to form with asperities and inequalities.
To affect nicetyor subtilty in thought or language.
Here is a small trick which showeth some nicety of eye: to throw this ring to the ceiling and catch it upon a rapier point.
No cook seasoning a dish could have added his spices with more nicety of judgment than our friend displayed in whitening the pates of his company.
Go to--let the room be made ready--small preparation may serve, if she cherish not the Norman nicety about bed and lodging.
She read, and assimilated rather than remembered what she read, adopted this little affectation in speech, this little nicety of manner.
So much for what Bentley calls Temple's "Nicety of Tast.
Oliver murmured his comprehension of the different bodies referred to; and Mr. Sikes proceeded to load the pistol, with great nicety and deliberation.
Here is almost every fault which Dryden's later nicety would have condemned.
At the château he met a fine old gentleman who spoke English with that nicety of utterance which only a cultivated Frenchman can achieve.
Barry made a renversement with the utmost nicety of judgment and came out of it about thirty metres behind and above the Albatross.
She has great nicety and refinement in her personal ways, I think, and the cigarette is really a feminine weapon if properly understood.
In the next place, there is a woeful lack of nicety in the butcher's work of cutting and preparing meat.
Is it not time that civilization should learn to demand somewhat more care and nicety in the modes of preparing what is to be cooked and eaten?
The air-cells in bread thus prepared are coarse and uneven; the bread is as inferior in delicacy and nicety to that which is well kneaded as a raw servant to a perfectly educated and refined lady.
No family does its own washing; the family's linen is all sent to women who, making this their sole profession, get it up with a care and nicety which can seldom be equaled in any family.
