Word: fines
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...aesthetic points in Fine Arts?" the inquisitor pursued...
...certain weakness for the little Italian myself. The orangeman (who, by the way, is a stanch Romanist) affords me no little delight; there is a pleasure in communion of thought with the gentlemanly poco; but the picturesqueness of the uncombed locks of the Italian boy, and the fine frenzy of his black eyes, have charms that especially captivate...
...trials will, at the expense of the Regatta Committee, be sent to compete at Henley, and other regattas in England, and at the Paris International races. It is to be hoped that the enterprise and liberality of the Committee will be recognized and rewarded by a large entry and fine competition, and that thus the really best amateurs in America may be sent abroad...
...common language of all these nations, braxe, or bracce; probably because it was made of the same party-colored cloth with their plaids, as breac, in that language, signifies anything that is party-colored. These braxe, or close trousers, which were both graceful and convenient, and discovered the fine shape and turn of their limbs to great advantage, were used by the genuine posterity of the Caledonian Britons in the Highlands of Scotland till very lately, and are hardly yet laid aside in some remote corners of that country...
...overture to Egmont, so suggestive of the spirit of Goethe's great drama, was finely played, and formed a suitable introduction to the recitative and aria, "Abscheulicher," from Beethoven's only opera. We have, however, heard this aria sung with more feeling, and voices of better timbre, on the stage in Germany. Miss Wilde is said to be a fine actress, and to have been more popular once than even Materna. She must have had a fine voice when she was Prima Donna soprano at the Imperial Opera House of Vienna, but fine voices seldom last long. Her greatest merit...