Perfection

Examples

• My own sister as a wife, Sir Thomas Bertram as a husband, are my standards of perfection. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Why, Count, since you have come to Roylands, the weather has been simply perfection. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Each acknowledges the perfection of the polarised sex-circuit. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The Royal Personage declared with an oath that she was perfection, and engaged her again and again in conversation. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• Pretschi, have also successfully directed their attention to engraving the images of the camera, which has now obtained a high degree of perfection. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• Savages we call them, because their manners differ from ours, which we think the perfection of civility; they think the same of theirs. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• In the mean time, the mind that conceived and made practical this invention could not rest content with anything less than perfection, so far as it could be realized. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• I won't say how much money it cost him, or how many years of his life he had been about it, but he brought it to perfection a dozen years ago. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• The Mino turned his face in pure superiority to his master, and slowly closed his eyes, standing in statuesque young perfection. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• In travelling by the road from Harrisburg, I thought the perfection of rapid transit had been reached. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• It was during this period of inventing a system that so much systematic and continuous work with good results was done by Edison in the design and perfection of dynamos. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• And as natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress towards perfection. Charles Darwin. On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.
• But this is no slack philosophy, for the chance is denied by which we can lie back upon the perfection of some mechanical contrivance. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• Mr. Bryan Donkin, who was engaged in the manufactory, principally assisted in bringing the machinery to perfection. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• This perfection in insulation has greatly facilitated the establishment of telegraphic communication between England and the Continent. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
• You see, Maurice, old as I am, I can still rhapsodize on Chloe's perfections, though she basely deceived me. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Was he really so superior, and would he crush the poor worms which dared not aspire to his perfections? Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• I have detailed the perfections of my sister; and yet she was utterly unlike Idris. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Yes, yes, yes, muttered Fred Lamb, between his closed teeth; but a woman who loves a man is blind to the perfections of every other. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• It would not be fair to inquire into a young lady's exact estimate of her own perfections. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• Then why don't you place all your perfections before my dear aunt, and persuade her into consenting to the match. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• Nor was it I alone who felt thus intimately his perfections. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Believe me, my dear Miss Elizabeth, that your modesty, so far from doing you any disservice, rather adds to your other perfections. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.

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