Meantime Mrs. Seabrook was walking briskly towards the highway, but with a very thoughtful expression on her refined face.
It seems your Vicky Van is a lady of most refined tastes.
But you can understand that the taste displayed in the wall decoration, shows a refined and cultured nature.
Everything was in order, and all just as a well-bred, refined woman would have her belongings.
A trifle mannered and affected, perhaps, her illustrations are full of refined drawing, charming colour, and pleasing sentiment.
While courtly, polished, and refined in externals, he lacked in tact and nicety of discrimination.
The invention, if it may be regarded as one, consisted in eliminating lime from the glass mixture, substituting refined potash for soda, and using a very large proportion of lead oxide.
It enjoyed a practical monopoly of the sale of raw and refined sugars, had the right to distil spirits from molasses free of duty, dealt largely in cured herring and salmon, sent hides to English tanners and manufactured soap and linen.
Let not the refined reader feel disdisgust at this exhibition of the propensities of an American savage.
Prassede at Rome, prove his genius to have been more refined than that of his master.
No man, however rough, could thus associate with a delicate and refined woman without acquiring some of the elegance which distinguished her.
Near him was the lovely and refined Arthur Middleton of South Carolina, with a heart full of philanthropy, and a mind at ease while he saw his immense fortune melting away before the fire of revolution.
Her bearing is rather a gentle refined type, seemingly untouched by the squalor in which she lives.
She is always clean and neat, a refinedold soul, as individuals of that class often are.
In the written essays for the examinations, what is generally aimed at by the candidates is a high standard of noble ideas which they try to express in the most refined style.
How "hard" it must be for a gentle, refined and educated woman to endure these things, my readers can judge.
With its rope and tassel and his pale, thin, refined face, it made him look like an old ascetic monk.
But the love of Dido for AEneas is the refined passion which is the soul of the romances and of half the poetry of modern times.
Brower did not continue long in the hospitable mansion of Rubens, whose refined and elegant manners, love of literature, and domestic happiness were less congenial to this erratic genius than the revels of his pot-companions.
They have refined upon villany till it wants a name.
In the list of human vices we find some of such a refined constitution, they cannot be carried into practice without seducing some virtue to their assistance; but meanness has neither alliance nor apology.
But this logic was a little too refined for the revolutionary tribunals of the Jacobins in Paris, and Mr. Morris well knew it was not worth while to preach it to them.
He was two years older than myself--a talented and refined man.
A rich and refined taste was shown in the whole arrangement.
He improved our speech; through the power and beauty of his sermons he awakened in us the endeavor to cultivate a better, more refined language than the jargon we then spoke.
Mrs. Benas, too, after momentary embarrassment, contributed in her refined and clever manner and with her considerate hospitality, to the pleasure of the small circle.
On the following afternoon Mrs. Benas was sitting in her room, looking meditatively before her, an expression of melancholy in her sweet, refined face.
It is here we look for a happy family, above the world's reproach, for rational and refined enjoyment, for kindly intercourse between beings of the higher order of intellect.
Thus stand the dwellings of many of our most wealthy and respectable citizens, naked and bare, looking more like extensive manufactories, than habitations of refined taste.
Certainly, the little attention that is paid to external ornament, around the situations of the wealthy and the great of our land, is evidence of a want of that refined taste which all should desire to see more common.
It is the nursery of elegant taste and refined feeling, and aids essentially in the cultivation of those elevated sentiments which bind men together in the bands of social union.
They are so fine that some critics have wished to place her in the great lyric period; but their deep and most refined feeling for nature rather belongs to this age.
In revulsion from the immense accumulation of material wealth in this period, a certain refined simplicity was then the ideal of the best minds, as it was afterwards in the early Roman Empire, as it is in our own day.
The first, after being instructed by him in the art, became more refined in his taste under Guido Reni, of whose style he sufficiently partakes, as we may perceive in his Slaughter of the Innocents at S.
Sugar-refining, too, is of great proportions here, and the trade of importing and exporting the raw and refined sugars amounts to over one hundred millions of kilos per year.
For one of her age, she was very much refined in her manners.
For," said he, "some of their practices are so shockingly infamous they may not even be alluded to in the presence of the refined and the virtuous.
Would not a council be held with the reverend fathers of the company of Loyola, the same who have suggested the abominable calumnies above alluded to, in order to invent some refined method of putting me out of the world?
To the world's wife there had always been something in Miss Tulliver's very physique that a refined instinct felt to be prophetic of harm.
Such things could have had no perceptible effect on a thoroughly well-educated young lady, with a perfectly balanced mind, who had had all the advantages of fortune, training, and refined society.
But the refined instinct of the world's wife was not to be deceived; providentially!
Though still delicate as to his physique, it was with an elegant, refined rather than a feeble and sickly delicacy.
Herman, I would be willing to pass through a fiery furnace if by doing so I could come out like refined gold, for your sake!
