Will felt that his literary refinements were usually beyond the limits of Middlemarch perception; nevertheless, he was beginning thoroughly to like the work of which when he began he had said to himself rather languidly, "Why not?
Certainly her thoughts were much occupied with Lydgate himself; he seemed to her almost perfect: if he had known his notes so that his enchantment under her music had been less like an emotional elephant's, and if he had been able to discriminate better the refinements of her taste in dress, she could hardly have mentioned a deficiency in him.
There was nothing financial, still less sordid, in her previsions: she cared about what were considered refinements, and not about the money that was to pay for them.
It has incomparable refinements of design and reveals subtle insights into nature and human beings.
Today, hundreds of thousands of patients have had this type of implant, either the Starr-Edwards valve design or refinements on that model.
Single-malt scotch, a freshly ironed copy of The Wall Street Journal, a Fax machine, a silver vase of freesias—once you get into the refinements, you'll never want to get out.
