1 He turned towards his friend's face and saw there a raw smile which some force of will strove to make finely significant.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 2 Yes, he was certainly wonderfully handsome, with his finely curved scarlet lips, his frank blue eyes, his crisp gold hair.
3 His finely chiselled nostrils quivered, and some hidden nerve shook the scarlet of his lips and left them trembling.
4 He was not so finely bred as his sister.
5 Those finely shaped fingers could never have clutched a knife for sin, nor those smiling lips have cried out on God and goodness.
6 With subtle and finely wrought temperaments it is always so.
7 They had few recollections of past wealth and splendor--and the Yankee officers were so handsome and finely dressed and so carefree.
8 So long as each of them could bring home nine or ten dollars a week, they were able to get along finely.
9 The young Huron was in his war paint, and very little of a finely molded form was concealed by his attire.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 23 10 They were in truth fighting finely down there.
11 He scrambled upon a wee hill and watched it sweeping finely, keeping formation in difficult places.
12 We shall be finely helped, if the churl Saxons should have realized your Grace's vision, of converting feudal drawbridges into gibbets; and yonder bold-spirited Cedric seemeth one to whom such an imagination might occur.
13 Her happiness on this occasion was very much a la mortal, finely chequered.
14 The expression of her finely carved mouth was pleasant, as if a sense of dignity had just compelled her to leave off speaking.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 5: 9 Sights and Sounds Draw the Wanderers Together 15 But for the trained reasoner to admit such intrusions into his own delicate and finely adjusted temperament was to introduce a distracting factor which might throw a doubt upon all his mental results.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In I. A Scandal in Bohemia