| 单词 | finical |
| 例句 | Her poems are finically, even excessively observant, and scrupulously formally structured, with, on occasion, the most improbably outrageous of end-rhymes. Marianne Moore was a singular voice 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z The civil lawsuit would not seek finical damages but instead would look to force toy gun producers to manufacture guns that are easily distinguishable from real weapons, Hilow told the TV station. Cleveland police union to sue toy gun producers: media 2017-05-02T04:00:00Z Today, Bank of America became the first major finical institution to initiate analyst coverage of Bitcoin. Bitcoin Gets Valued: Bank Of America Puts A Price Target On The Virtual Tender 2013-12-05T22:42:00Z There is a sound that must terribly jar On the ears of the West in our finical day; 'Tisn't a sound of battle and war, But of something much worse in its "vulgar" way. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 105 October 7, 1893 2012-04-03T02:00:30.460Z Beloved France, To ape thy jeunesse dor�e will not jar Upon my spirit, which is all romance: I love the blend of the sublime and finical, Of chivalry, choice cookery, and the cynical. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 93, Nov. 11, 1887 2012-04-02T02:00:24.930Z George had a number of pretty finical scruples, of which his conduct at this crisis of his fortunes was a particular example. Parson Kelly 2012-01-28T03:00:30.303Z The Nile is just as finical and unreliable as a Missouri or Mississippi, the tortuous channel constantly shifting, and the pilot needs to be an expert with a memory like an encyclopaedia. In Pastures New 2011-12-23T03:00:12.717Z Because crows eat almost anything they can find, and pick up a good living where other birds, more finical or less clever, would starve, they rarely need to migrate; but they are great rovers. Birds Every Child Should Know 2011-12-08T03:00:24.887Z His conversation, though somewhat precise and finical on the first impression, was rich in knowledge. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume 6 2011-10-07T02:00:22.270Z Books he loved only for their uses; he favored no finical "keeping" of them, but plunged into an uncut volume with a smeared fruit-knife—if need were. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z Perhaps her taste was too finical, or her character too cold, as they said. Cecil Castlemaine's Gage, Lady Marabout's Troubles, and Other Stories 2011-08-25T02:00:30.323Z Like many men who make no pretensions to deserve the term handsome, he was inordinately finical about his person. Linda Lee, Incorporated A Novel 2011-06-19T02:00:18.633Z She had had many notes from Dr. Gay in precisely these finical characters. Faithful Margaret A Novel 2011-06-10T02:00:21.627Z Professional men disfigured the language by conventional pedantries; the finical courtier would prate “nothing but Chaucer.” Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature 2011-06-03T02:00:19.227Z "So ask me what you want to know, Mark, and don't intrude on Nellie's finical delicacy." The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z The treatment of the subject, in this model, certainly deserves to be called free, but the general effect of the work is finical. Shakespeare's England 2011-01-30T03:00:17.313Z Take away from the latter its finical, over-refined tricks of color, and what is left? In Paradise A Novel. Vol. I. So, when that finical appetite of mine would suddenly cry out for oysters, I could think of nothing else. Life on the Stage "That's what I get for playing the finical idiot!" he groaned. A Romance in Transit His finical delicacy was pained to a certain extent that the casting off her widow's weeds could be interpreted as a challenge to a fresh romance. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z Ornaments of the best taste are not always preferred; on the contrary, a finical style is often most popular. Edelweiss A Story Mr Wilton's sister, the aunt of both, was a rich widow, but of a morose and finical temper. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Vol. 9 My shoes will be ruined!” wailed Dolly who was always finical about “dirt.” Dorothy at Oak Knowe “This must be Wolstang,” thought I: “but it is not his sneeze either; it is too sharp and finical for him; however, let us see.” Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2 She said to herself that this was no time or place for finical delicacy. The Storm Centre 2011-03-01T03:00:39.427Z The Rime of di Costanzo are remarkable for finical taste, for polish and frequent beauty of expression, and for strict obedience to the poetical canons of his time. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 4 "Coquelin" to "Costume" Miss Fleming never expected from men the finical gallantry usually paid to young ladies, and even the gallant Virginian did not give it to her. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20. July, 1877. It is a terrible tale—the kind of tale we are too finical to tell in these modern days, though that is not saying there are not many such tales to be told. Through Our Unknown Southwest The merest sketch of him would not be complete unless we added that his dress was faultless, and that he was apt to bestow a somewhat finical care upon the minor details of his toilet. Under False Pretences A Novel He seemed magnanimous towards Gwen, in spite of her finical delicacy. When Ghost Meets Ghost The common Scots saying, on the sight of anything operose and finical, “he must have had little to do that made that!” might be put as epigraph on all the song-books of old France. The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 3 (of 25) Did she realize, by some divine insight, that this frankness, this absence of finical conventions, this whole-hearted camaraderie, would hold me more sternly to my path of duty than anything else she might have done? Wings of the Wind If, he says, the Whigs are too finical to join heartily with the popular advocates, the Reformers are too cold. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) Sir Joshua Reynolds, as we know, would have regarded this as the essence of finical vulgarity. The Strand Magazine, Volume V, Issue 27, March 1893 An Illustrated Monthly No, a finical and foolish reservation that at any moment may become a maelstrom of suspicion and rage and hatred and destruction and death! Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association "I think he looks neat to the point of nattiness, which is finical in a man," Beth answered. The Beth Book Being a Study of the Life of Elizabeth Caldwell Maclure, a Woman of Genius No Virgin by him the somewhat petty, Of finical touch and tempera crumbly— Could not Alesso Baldovinetti215 Contribute so much, I ask him humbly? Selections from the Poems and Plays of Robert Browning There is nothing silly or finical about him. Hours in a Library New Edition, with Additions. Vol. II (of 3) She was finical to the point of absurdity even, which is often the fault of beauty, and perhaps a fault not altogether unbecoming, since its aim is the last elaboration of loveliness. Making People Happy She will be sure to be finical, cowardly, or disagreeable in some way. Doctor Jones' Picnic It will be advisable for such to have a prudent care of their health, and yet, a care distinct from that finical timidity which renders them liable to early attacks of sickness. A New Guide for Emigrants to the West An arc of the horizon intercepted between the nearest meridian and any distant object, either discovered by the eye and referred to a point on the compass, or resulting from finical proportion. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. These musicians seem to be rather finical in their choice of summer resorts. Birds of the Rockies But the explanation of the fact to a mere man, with his finical dependence on logic and all manner of foolishness in the way of reasoning, offered considerable difficulty. Making People Happy After my sister died—the pair of us married brothers—he grew lost and finical. Dorothy's Travels There is nothing finical or foppish about the conventions which Mr. Harcourt undertakes to codify and explain. Ben's Nugget A Boy's Search For Fortune A finical fellow in the usual sense, but adopted as a nautical term by the mutineers of '97, to express the nobs, or heads of officers. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Those false refinements, that finical, affected air so justly reproached to the generality of teachers, a master should correct in himself before he can well give lessons for avoiding them to his pupils. A Treatise on the Art of Dancing A child should be taught to eat everything that is wholesome, and not be permitted to become finical or fastidious in its appetite. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother They deem her somewhat finical, Outlandish and provincial, A trifle pale, a trifle lean, But plainer girls they oft had seen. Eugene Oneguine [Onegin] A Romance of Russian Life in Verse Like the bird skin they should be thoroughly rid of flesh and fat after skinning but do not require such finical handling. Home Taxidermy for Pleasure and Profit A Guide for Those Who Wish to Prepare and Mount Animals, Birds, Fish, Reptiles, etc., for Home, Den, or Office Decoration Both figure and face were small and delicate: his dress was finical and dainty, from the fur-topped overshoes to the antique seal and the trimming of his gray moustache. Lippincott's Magazine, Volume 11, No. 26, May, 1873 To us such a proverb is perhaps even more sapid than the sometimes slightly finical turns praised by Erasmus. Erasmus and the Age of Reformation These were necessarily long and tedious, but Jay, Franklin's colleague, made them needlessly so by his finical refusal to treat till England had acknowledged our independence by a separate act. History of the United States, Volume 2 He studies a singularity of phrase at once crabbed and finical, and overloads his pages with far-fetched epithets, that are at once harsh and unmeaning. The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, May 1844 Volume 23, Number 5 Much money is often worse than wasted, by finical ornaments, which are fast going out of fashion. A Treatise on Domestic Economy For the Use of Young Ladies at Home and at School He would have been downed completely, judged by the finical standards of the little college. The Brentons Osric, a court fop, contemptible for his affectation and finical dandyism. Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 A man may become prolix from the fulness or fervency of his mind; but prolixity produced by this finical minuteness of language, ends by distressing one's nerves. Hours in a Library, Volume I. (of III.) But this may appear finical to Mr. Brooks. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 But I would have my readers to remember that this art is a finical and soulless art, after all. The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art You cannot figure him as laboriously searching for the right word or painfully recasting the same sentence many times until he reached the form which suited his finical taste. Modern English Books of Power The type of affection now defined, many people consider a mere theory, spun by a finical fancy, incapable of reduction to practice in the substantial relations of life. The Friendships of Women And this, not in a small, finical way, but with a breadth of view and of treatment which are to-day the despair of painters. A Text-Book of the History of Painting Johnson's style was grand, and Gibbon's elegant: the stateliness of the former was sometimes pedantic, and the latter was occasionally finical. Gibbon But of so fine a composition there is no call for finical criticism. The Story of the Hymns and Tunes After all, it was probably not her fault about the lamp, and lamps were a minor consideration, and he was finical, but suppose she liked it? The Portion of Labor Writers who boast a sort of finical superiority will no doubt disdain these barbarian delights, and wonder that memory should be persistent over mere physical sensations. The Quest of the Simple Life They have a prettiness about them that is attractive, but as art they lack in force, and in workmanship they are too smooth, finical, and thin in handling. A Text-Book of the History of Painting Weakness was at the core of it, weakness revealed in self-deception and self-accusation alike, the weakness of the finical dreamer, the man with the unrobust conscience. The Half-Hearted As to the cant of the day, I despise it, as I have ever done all its other finical fashions, which become you as paint became the ancient Britons. Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 4 With His Letters and Journals But planning, like finical little Waring, that she should fall snugly into a fashionable set, Parisian gowns, a suitable marriage! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 His whole style is finically quaint, overloaded with prettinesses, and all the ornaments of false taste. Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2 The compositions were huddled, the landscapes pure but finical, the figures inclined to slimness, awkwardness, and angularity in the lines of form or drapery, and uncertain in action. A Text-Book of the History of Painting He only deserved his finical reputation inasmuch as he was unduly given to the use of these catch-words, not because he in any undue way affected to “look the part” or live up to them. Matthew Arnold If his poems are sometimes finical and pedantic, his prose is quite free from affectation. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution The king also reprobated the finical embarrassments of the new fashions, and seldom wore new clothes. Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions Little, finical, affected,—all Japan is contained, both physically and morally, in these three words. Madame Chrysantheme Again, their art was more ornate, richer in costume, color, and detail than Florentine art; but it was also more finical and narrow in scope. A Text-Book of the History of Painting She saw the man at last under Muller's weak finical ways, and the manly look he gave her. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 He held the plough or the pen with the same firm, manly grasp; nor did he cut out poetry as we cut out watch-papers, with finical dexterity, nor from the same flimsy materials. Lectures on the English Poets Delivered at the Surrey Institution PRICKMADAINTY, s. a person who is finical in dress or carriage, particularly a small person. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume XXIV. On the other hand, there are a number of trifling decrees of etiquette that are merely finical, unreasonable, and silly. Etiquette When, however, the writing is finical a large mass of material has to be examined before a decision can be reached. Disputed Handwriting An exhaustive, valuable, and comprehensive work upon one of the most important subjects of to-day. With illustrations and expositions for the detection and study of forgery by handwriting of all kinds He stood beside her, do what she would—the fat body and legs, the finical dress, the wearisome platitudes, a regiment of blue-coated, thick-lipped children behind him. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 28, July, 1873 If she be a finical one, that will go rich in her apparel, she'l fill the Shopkeepers Counters with your mony. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple Instantly the foremost scout swam toward it; hesitated; paused; but at last advancing, briskly snuffed at the line, and taking one finical little nibble, retreated toward the shark. Mardi: and A Voyage Thither, Vol. I To those who dislike the word, it suggests all that is finical and superfluous. Etiquette His solitude was soon invaded by a visit from the Rev. Marmaduke Sprout, rector of Trimmerstone, who was rather fanatical in his theology, and finical in attire and address. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 360, March 14, 1829 Lengthy criticisms on her various performances were inserted, most of them stuffed with the pseudo-taste and finical ostentation of knowledge prevalent in that department of newspaper literature, but all according her the most exalted merit. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Spending most part of his time in finical dressing himself, to accompany his Mistriss, and with a Coach or Pair of Oars to do her all manner of caresses. The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple Others, again, paint and powder themselves so much, and dress so finically, as leads us to suppose they are only women in boy's clothes. The Young Gentleman and Lady's Monitor, and English Teacher's Assistant How could she hamper the mind of this ingenuous little lad of hers with false and finical ideas of refinement and delicacy! Apples, Ripe and Rosy, Sir "The dear, good soul is finical as a cat," with the good-natured indulgence of a mother for a child. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 27, June, 1873 See bit; atom, molecule, monad. particular, a. special, especial, specific; minute, precise, detailed, circumstantial; individual, separate, sole, single; characteristic, distinctive, individual, personal, peculiar; fastidious, finical, scrupulous, precise, strict. Putnam's Word Book In our judgment, Milton's line is the better, since moles do not dive and have no flood—two false figures in one line from the precise and finical Pope! Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876 "All that finical ceremony he would go through in the face of the enemy," thought Blecker, jumping down on the track. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 11, No. 67, May, 1863 If your thought is worth anything, you can afford to laugh at some small violation of grammar, or the knocking over of some finical standard or other. Quit Your Worrying! “And you think I am going to insult my own mother and sisters to please any woman’s finical prudish notions’? The Three Brides Come, leave your finical talk, and let's dispatch, Charles. The Works of Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher Volume 2 of 10: Introduction to the Elder Brother This gentleman is a little finical and formal. Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 7 Men of high purposes naturally spurn all that is comparatively low; or all that may seem nice, overwrought, ostentatious, or finical. The Grammar of English Grammars We were dining at the home of a friend and one of these super-sensitive, finical sticklers for gentility was present. Quit Your Worrying! Were they to stand coldly, finically aside because they were too refined and nice, and full of culture to touch this work of The Salvation Army with the point of the finger? Darkest India A Supplement to General Booth's "In Darkest England, and the Way Out" One thing, and one thing only, has kept him from telling you any time since last autumn: that is a sort of finical loyalty to me. The Grafters It is true that I cannot talk in finical phrases, flatter people with hypocritical praise, or suppress the real feelings of my mind. Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are Still entertaining, Engaging and new: Neat, but not finical, Sage, but not cynical, Never tyrannical, But ever true. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 331, September 13, 1828 The veriest fledgling in psychical science will now sit and discourse finically to you about the reporting powers of the mind in its trance state—just as though it was something quite new! The Purple Cloud This was a good deal the effect of his maiden speech on the transfer of Genoa, to which Lord Castlereagh did not deign an answer, and which another Honourable Member called "a finical speech." The Spirit of the Age Contemporary Portraits It seemed to him, in fact, that his finical mechanisms for the undoing of Mary Turner were in a fair way to be thwarted. Within the Law He would infinitely rather be philosopher than producer; but somehow the necessity of manufacturing is constantly thrust back upon him by a profound—perhaps finical—sense of dissatisfaction with what other people make for him. Edison, His Life and Inventions Women would rave about him; men would think him finical and dandified. The Man Between, an International Romance And she ate with a candid gusto that pleased Cleggett, who loathed in a woman a finical affectation of indifference to food. The Cruise of the Jasper B. King Olaf was a very merry frolicsome man; gay and social; was very violent in all respects; was very generous; was very finical in his dress, but in battle he exceeded all in bravery. Heimskringla, or the Chronicle of the Kings of Norway But the police are out of sympathy with such finical methods. Within the Law Broad and large as a continent in his ideas, if ever there was a man of finical fussiness in attention to detail, it is Edison. Edison, His Life and Inventions The common Scotch saying, on the sight of anything operose and finical, "he must have had little to do that made that!" might be put as epigraph on all the song books of old France. Familiar Studies of Men and Books She has remarkable beauty, certainly; but there is something finical—precise——" "Take care. Frances Waldeaux No Virgin by him the somewhat petty, Of finical touch and tempera crumbly— Could not Alesso Baldovinetti Contribute so much, I ask him humbly? An Introduction to the Study of Robert Browning's Poetry Flowers, however, were her speciality, and though her touch was a little old-fashioned and finical, she painted them with remarkable skill. Roderick Hudson He will practise no languishing, no effeminate airs of the head, no finical playing of the fingers, no measured movement of the joints. Cicero's Brutus or History of Famous Orators; also His Orator, or Accomplished Speaker. He kept so finically true to the rhythm of the dance that a spontaneous motion might ruin everything. The Quest "A woman of the world who knew life, to marry that bloodless, finical priest!" Frances Waldeaux Not because they happened to be cabin-passengers: not at all: but only because they seemed the most finical, miserly, mean men and women, that ever stepped over the Atlantic. Redburn. His First Voyage But this finical arrangement, this finding everything in the morning in exact diametrical rectitude, torments me. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 6 Letters 1821-1842 His manners had altered most: from bordering on the polite and finical, adversity and rough usage had made them more direct and blunt. Tales for Young and Old Nothing can be more unlike than the inflated finical rhapsodies of Shaftesbury, and the plain natural chit-chat of Temple. The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb — Volume 2 Elia and The Last Essays of Elia Good Lord, you think your self a very fine Fellow now, and finical your self up to be thought so; but there's as much difference between a Citizen and a true bred Cavalier— Ant. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III And if he was finical about his room he took care to be no neater in his dress than his associates. Sleeping Fires: a Novel Having once decided, the man kept at his work with finical precision. Castle Nowhere Chauvelin, finical and queasy, turned away with a shudder of disgust. The League of the Scarlet Pimpernel I have not much sympathy with finical, fussy gardening. The Home Acre According to the N.E.D. the use of finical as a verb is a nonce word only found in this passage. p. The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume III It is a trifle too finical, though it must be confessed looks pretty. Chopin : the Man and His Music Southey, on the other hand, a man of Spartan virtue, became a highly-cultivated writer; he sate in his spacious library of well-selected books, arranged with a finical preciseness, apportioning his day between various literary pursuits. The Altar Fire This young man, whose awkward bearing and long lava-hued face crowned with flamboyant hair contrasted oddly with his finical apparel, returned Odo's look with a gaze of eager comprehension. The Valley of Decision Fie upon his finical spirit, which dwelt so vulgarly on a man's trivial defects! Our Friend the Charlatan —Charming! he said in a finical sweet voice, showing his white teeth and blinking his eyes pleasantly. Ulysses Its extravagance, misplaced enthusiasm, turbulence, attacks on church, state and tradition disturbed the finical Pole while noise, reclame and boisterousness chilled and repulsed him. Chopin : the Man and His Music But no matter, you are not finical, Corporal! The Honor of the Name Captain Frazer was in Cape Town; Carew was still in hospital at Johannesburg where, under the eyes of Alice Mellen and her cousin, he was fast resuming his old finical habits. On the Firing Line The husband exclaims, "What! you enjoy the flesh of dead men, and over rice you are so finical as to eat it with a pin!" The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 13 These "finical" things of saying good morning and good night are not much practiced in such homes as Grant McLane's. Main-Travelled Roads "Is it yours to give the word?" asked the slight man, who was dressed point-device, and with a finical nicety, in black and silver. To Have and to Hold Neat, but not finical; Sage, but not cynical; Never tyrannical, But ever true. The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 "With pleasure, madame," replied Monsieur de Robespierre, with his finical gallantry. Catherine De Medici He reached for a chair, and, seating himself at the opposite side of the table, began to roll a finical cigarette. Roads of Destiny |
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