Finely

Examples

• At the thought he laid down his knife and fork again, and a flush of anxiety rose to his finely-wrinkled cheek. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• As to dressing, I make this vow: I'll never dress more finely than as you see me at present. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• His dark brows and all his lines, were finely drawn. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• We quarrelled finely, and Mrs. Clements, not liking to see it, I suppose, offered to take Anne away to live in London with her. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• The tube is then removed from the boiling water, and after cooling for a few minutes, it is placed in a vessel containing finely chopped ice (Fig. 10). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• He laughed more, as he kissed her delicate, finely perfumed hair. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Finely expressed! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Finely pulverized common clay, well mixed with Spanish white, makes reddish stone color. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The Gallipoli campaign was finely imagined, but disgracefully executed. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The mimeograph employs a pointed stylus, used as in writing with a lead-pencil, which is moved over a kind of tough prepared paper placed on a finely grooved steel plate. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Her finely touched spirit had still its fine issues, though they were not widely visible. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• But these were mere trifles, and they assured their mother that the experiment was working finely. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• The locks are so finely adjusted that the doors are released by the action of a certain combination of thought waves. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
• If the leaf is finely veined the lower surface makes the better print, but if the veins are coarse and large the upper surface may be used. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• She thought she was prospering finely, but unconsciously she was beginning to desecrate some of the womanliest attributes of a woman's character. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• His finely turned head might be copied for that of the Apollo Belvidere, and yet he has no vanity. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The expression of her finely carved mouth was pleasant, as if a sense of dignity had just compelled her to leave off speaking. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• For the purpose of making the cast finely ground fresh plaster of Paris is needed; if of long standing, the same will lose its desirable properties. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Her happiness on this occasion was very much _a_ _la_ _mortal_, finely chequered. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• It is bright, keen-edged, finely tapered; it is dangerous-looking. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• This is ground and that part of this finely ground clinker that will pass a 200-mesh screen is cement; the residue is still clinker. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And in no other regard do we find the rich tortuous humanity of the American story so finely displayed as in regard to slavery. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• They're such dolls; they do nothing but dress themselves finely, and go swimming about to be admired. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Because he is self-conscious, Wilson has been able to see the problem that any finely adapted statecraft must meet. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• At the same time he was finely and acutely aware of Mademoiselle's neat, brittle finality of form. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• His senses were so finely, almost supernaturally keen, that he seemed to cast his own will over the half-unconscious house. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It is very important that the materials used must be finely powdered, perfectly dry, and thoroughly mixed. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The lamps were small and finely made, they could be lighted or extinguished by simply pressing a button, and the cost of making them was slight. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• Normally, a stream of finely divided ore falling from the hopper would fall into that portion of the bin lying to the left of the partition. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• He closes his picture with a rollicking burst of humor which contrasts finely with the grief of the mother and her children. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.

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