Finer

Examples

• There is a great difference between feeding parties to wild beasts and stirring up their finer feelings in an Inquisition. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• All these things do I now think over, adding, He had his faults, yet scarce ever was a finer nature; liberal, suave, impressible. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• It was finer, more fertile, altogether richer. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Dress had become richer, finer, and more beautiful. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The soft isolation of the falling day enveloped them: they seemed lifted into a finer air. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• His coarse, strong nature craved, and could endure, a continual stimulation, that would have utterly wrecked and crazed a finer one. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• You are further aware that most people affirm pleasure to be the good, but the finer sort of wits say it is knowledge? Plato. The Republic.
• Stiff, coarse straw will not answer unless packed very solid; finer and softer, as of thickly sown oats, is better, and the walls which it forms need not be quite so thick. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Is not the _sense_ of liberty a higher and a finer one than any of the five? Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Why, this is finer even than the Rector's rose-garden. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• But arching more and much finer. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• These were young girls, like herself; some perhaps pretty, some not without a trace of her finer sensibilities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• He couldn't speak finer if he wanted to borrow. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• I have rarely seen a finer women than my mother; never than my father. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Could there be finer symptoms? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• The silver thus deposited, is absolutely pure--finer, in fact, than any articles of sterling silver. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• In Great Britain, and some other northern countries, the finer fruits cannot be brought to perfection but by the assistance of a wall. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• This advanced the art of shoemaking in the finer varieties of shoes, and to-day nearly all men’s fine shoes are made in this way. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Gerty Farish, seated next to Selden, was lost in that indiscriminate and uncritical enjoyment so irritating to Miss Bart's finer perceptions. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• I thought Lake Tahoe was much finer. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• She seemed encased in a strong armour of indifference, as though the vigorous exertion of her will had finally benumbed her finer sensibilities. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• There's not a finer fellow in the service, Osborne said, nor a better officer, though he is not an Adonis, certainly. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There was an absence of the finer touches of humanity in it! Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• But you have admired many finer dresses this very day; and is it not natural that I wish I could give them to you? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Borax is a milder powder and is desirable for finer work. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And shuttlecock, now--I don't know a finer game than shuttlecock for the daytime. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The wildness was gone and I felt finer than I had ever felt. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Language is a finer medium. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The whole army didn't contain a finer or a better officer, the soldier said. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• It would be the last--in all probability--the last scene on that stage; but he was sure there could not be a finer. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.

Edited by Helen