1 "Most of them would look a lot finer in gray uniforms and in Virginia," she said, and she did not trouble to lower her voice.
2 He was just plain Cracker, a small farmer, half-educated, prone to grammatical errors and ignorant of some of the finer manners the O'Haras were accustomed to in gentlemen.
3 As the walls went swiftly up she thought with satisfaction that, when finished, it would be larger and finer looking than any other house in town.
4 The soft isolation of the falling day enveloped them: they seemed lifted into a finer air.
5 These were young girls, like herself; some perhaps pretty, some not without a trace of her finer sensibilities.
6 Gerty Farish, seated next to Selden, was lost in that indiscriminate and uncritical enjoyment so irritating to Miss Bart's finer perceptions.
7 She seemed encased in a strong armour of indifference, as though the vigorous exertion of her will had finally benumbed her finer sensibilities.
8 I found many, who had not been seven years out of their chains, living in finer houses, and evidently enjoying more of the comforts of life, than the average of slaveholders in Maryland.
9 The haste of the column to reach the battle seemed to the forlorn young man to be something much finer than stout fighting.
10 This cold officer upon a monument, who dropped epithets unconcernedly down, would be finer as a dead man, he thought.
11 And with it all he was singularly free from recognition of the finer points of the conduct of prisoners of war.
12 The gift to appreciate and the sense to feel the finer shades and relations of moral things, often seems an attribute of those whose whole life shows a careless disregard of them.
13 His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one.
14 He was obviously an ecclesiastic of high rank; his dress was that of a Cistercian Monk, but composed of materials much finer than those which the rule of that order admitted.
15 His feet had sandals of the same fashion with the peasants, but of finer materials, and secured in the front with golden clasps.