Word: fines
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...these latter being favored - for that occasion only, we trust - with the kind services of Messrs. Tyng and Thatcher. The odds against the Harvard men were, naturally, enormous; and the game terminated in our defeat by a score of eight to seven. The second innings was marked by a fine double play by Ernst, and in the following innings a splendid hit by Thayer gave three runs. In the fifth, a double out was made by Ernst, who obstinately insisted on catching a fly regardless of the earnest advice of his friends to drop it. In the sixth innings...
...Montreal on Friday, after a very comfortable journey. The next morning was spent for the most part in making purchases; and after separating into parties, the different members of the team drove around to see the "sights," and were much entertained by the quaint costumes and buildings of this fine old city. In the afternoon they went to McGill College, where they practised for a short time in a scrub game with each other; all the men seemed to be in fine condition, and everything seemed to point to the conclusion that the game on the following day would...
...gentleman of leisure, in the true sense of the word, to one of those elegant ornaments which beautify and perfect society as a good binding beautifies and perfects a book, two things are indispensable, - money and culture. Let either be wanting, and your fine gentleman is an elegant adventurer, or a boorish millionnaire of the class which the experiences of our last war have led us to call shoddy. Neither of these characters is either admirable or respectable; and before any man determines that his life shall be that of a gentleman of leisure, he should assure himself that...
...given is Mr. MacDonald, of the above firm, by whom the utter ignorance of the artist in regard to the right division of the figure by lead-work (which in the construction of stained-glass windows is all-important) was overcome, and the present richness of color and fine effect obtained. This central or figure portion of the window represents the Chevalier Bayard standing on the field of battle clad in the armor of his time. The attitude is graceful and majestic, and the effect of the figure is greatly enhanced by its being brought out in bold relief against...
...Pierian played with more precision and accuracy than at any concert given by them this past year. Especially fine was their rendering of the three movements from the Symphony in D from Haydn, and the Friedrichs March, which received a well-deserved encore...