Knocking was a refinement quite unknown in Riverboro, and if it had been heard of would never have been wasted on a child.
She was obliged, however, to avert her head when Tom cut some skin from the side of one of the mackerel to provide fresh bait; this device seemed to her the extremest refinement of cruelty.
To speak truth, there has been to me in this matter a refinement of enjoyment I would not make vulgar by communication.
He did not with time degenerate; his faults decayed, his virtues ripened; he rose in intellectual refinement, he won in moral profit: all dregs filtered away, the clear wine settled bright and tranquil.
To speak truth, reader, there is no excellent beauty, no accomplished grace, no reliable refinement, without strength as excellent, as complete, as trustworthy.
I was not in a sufficiently collected mood to note with separate distinctness every detail of the attire I removed, but I received a general impression of refinement, delicacy, and perfect personal cultivation; which, in a period of after-thought, offered in my reflections a singular contrast to notes retained of Miss Ginevra Fanshawe's appointments.
Her exquisite superiority and innate refinement ought, one would think, to scare impertinence from her very idea.
Tell her what Heathcliff is: an unreclaimed creature, without refinement, without cultivation; an arid wilderness of furze and whinstone.
And when something like that fulness of existence—love, wealth, ease, refinement, all that her nature craved—was brought within her reach, why was she to forego it, that another might have it,—another, who perhaps needed it less?
"You might say the same of landscape, of poetry, of all refinement.
Sprague indulged, preferring well-sanctioned quotations, and liking refinement of all kinds: it was generally known that he had some kinship to a bishop, and sometimes spent his holidays at "the palace.
Vincy gave more effect to Rosamond's refinement, which was beyond what Lydgate had expected.
He was as little as possible like the lamented Hicks, especially in a certain careless refinement about his toilet and utterance.
To be obliged to sit still when mental agony urges us to stride up and down is the refinement of torture.
"To play a man who's begun to lose his mental faculties, Hopkins methodically strips away every quality we've come to expect from him – the refinement, the silver tongue, the imposing intensity – until there's nothing left but frailty and distress," writes AA Dowd in AV Club.
AirPods are fantastic — they have fewer connection issues than any other wireless headphones — and after years of refinement, the Apple Watch shows you just enough stuff from your phone to make it useful without becoming overbearing.
Weakening our will to pursue our noble ideas, undermining our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success and strangling our desire for the refinement of our character.
23) The well-mannered Libra brings refinement and charm to an equally sophisticated eating establishment.
weakening our will to pursue our noble ideas, undermining our determination to sweep away obstacles to our success and strangling our desire for the refinement of our character.
23) The well-mannered Libra brings refinement and charm to an equally sophisticated eating establishment.
