Word: connoisseurs
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...powder-box. Mrs. Butterfield then descended to ask Mrs. De Sorosis if there were any powder on her face, and found that lady in the kitchen with a "new girl," as she expressed it, doing her best to explain in a short time the possibilities open to a connoisseur in the opening and decanting of ice-cream. Mrs. De Sorosis was telling in an excited manner to a bewildered Irish servant the various ways in which it was possible to get the cream out of the mould without getting the salt into it and without destroying the form in which...
...proficient, in the necessary requirements of the successful horse-dealer. Still it occurred to me that I knew one or two things about a horse; I imagined I could tell one about as far as I could see him. So I viewed my purchase with the air of a connoisseur. I regarded him as entirely an exceptional animal. He seemed to have both shapes and points; and I mentally patted myself on my back as an indication that meditative I approved of what impulsive I had done...
...Cambridge water poured through a sieve, they leave only the more prominent facts behind, while much that is of real value is lost. The practice so common of reading all the new publications is of no real value except to enable one to maintain the position of a literary connoisseur, in appearance at least, and is only a superficial knowledge...