This variety, which gives so much refinement to the language, does not however make it difficult to be spoken, because it is subjected to rules, which are fixed and easy; nor do we know any language that is more regular and methodical.
In these quiet evenings Josephine exerted all the art and refinementof her great social nature to render Bonaparte cheerful and to amuse him.
It is a needed discipline of color vision, in the sense that geometry is a discipline of the mind, and it also enters into the pleasure and refinement of life at every step.
Refinement in dress and the furnishings of the home is attractive, but we shrink from those who are “loud” in their speech or their clothing.
I prefer residence in France; I like a court so distinguished by its refinementand courtesy; I like the amusements, somewhat serious in their nature, which are not the amusements of my own country, and which are met with in France.
I was afraid maybe you had got it too good, with that Boston refinementof yours; but I reckon you haven't.
The roses looked sweetness at her; the Dendrobium shone in purity; myrtles and ferns and some exquisite foreign plants that she knew not by name, were the very prime of elegant refinement and refreshing suggestion.
But shouting, or crying out, is what people of refinement would not do, even if they could not open their pew doors.
To explain the greater purity and refinement of Japanese art, there are three points to be noticed.
On the other hand, one cannot expect from the student who has sprung from one of the lower grades of society, the same degree of refinement as graces those of a higher stand.
The frequent sales of paintings are the best evidence that the people of San Francisco equal the citizens of the oldest cities of the land in refinement and the elevation of the mind and heart above the mere desire to make money.
There is an air of refinementabout the place, and you find the atmosphere clear and stimulating.
Buckland Warricombe was rather a careless talker, but it was the carelessness of a man who had never needed to reflect on such a matter, the refinement of whose enunciation was assured to him from the nursery.
Birth in a sphere of refinement is desirable and respectable; it saves one, absolutely, from many forms of coarseness.
You have been among people of leisure and refinement and culture.
Earwaker formed his conclusions as to the 'trifling expense' which her services represented; but it was probably a real interest in her pupils which had induced a person of so much refinement to bear so long with the proximity of Mrs. Jacox.
Beneath the surface of ordinary and rather backward girlhood, which discouraged her father's hopes, Sidwell was quietly developing a personality distinguished by the refinement of its ethical motives.
Comparing this charitable brother with the uncharitable sister, who had visited me yesterday, how much more elevated was the natural feeling of this peasant, than the obtrusive refinement of the so-called higher classes.
Do you know that I quite shudder when I think of how much my intellectual refinementwill retrograde during my absence.
There was a refinement about it--it was precisely such hospitality, as Apicius would have practised, had Apicius been a bishop.
Expedition was then a prime quality in a barber, who smeared the lather over his customer's face with his hand; for the delicate refinement of the brush had not been introduced.
Had she been the woman of singular refinement we are asked to believe her, she would have been less communicative to her correspondent about her health.
But some of Mary Wollstonecraft's coarseness was due to natural want of refinement and a vein of vulgarity that, instead of playing only on the surface of her life, had its source in the depths of her soul.
In the department of the Ardennes cats were flung into the bonfires kindled on the first Sunday in Lent; sometimes, by a refinement of cruelty, they were hung over the fire from the end of a pole and roasted alive.
Another refinement of the same principle is due to the ingenuity of the German peasant.
Nevertheless his work often shows delicacy of feeling and refinement of thought.
They seem also to have been persons of greater social refinement than the Abolitionists.
They alternated between silence and the coarsest, crudest quarrelings, for neither had the intelligence to quarrel wittily or the refinement to quarrel artistically.
MANLY I fear, sister, I have not refinement sufficient to enjoy it.
Why should our thoughts to distant countries roam, When each refinement may be found at home?
The delicacy and refinement of this masterpiece surpasses almost any relief executed in Egypt before it.
In fact, a greater refinement begins to be apparent in the Egyptian art work of this period, even the domestic arts showing greater attention to delicacy.
But of course they're only a small part of the system which produces luxury, refinement and culture for a few, and condemns the majority to a lifelong struggle with adversity, and many thousands to degradation, hunger and rags.
There was a suggestion of refinement in his clean-shaven face, but his complexion was ominously clear, and an unnatural colour flushed the think cheeks.
