Word: fines
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...Cricket Eleven played a very fine game last Saturday, on the East Cambridge grounds, with the Mayflowers of Boston...
...only just to the Pierian to say that their performance at the Harvard Theatricals was remarkably fine; their playing this year is much better than ever before...
...sallow-faced Chronicle has reached us with the latest news from the Western University. In an able article on "The Facts in Full Light," the, "recent rumpus" is explained with critical care. The great fault seems to be that hazing is a fine art at Michigan, and the press has seen fit to throw round a little sport a background of mysterious horror. "That the Faculty should repeatedly say, 'Rely upon your own judgment,' and then should submit us to that character of discipline which belongs to the preparatory department, smacks strongly of inconsistency." The students at Michigan overrate their...
...value of some of them is very great. That Mr. Sumner had the true love of a bibliophile for beautiful bindings, rare editions, and exquisite texts, is testified by the Didots, the Foulis, the Pickerings, and the Roger Paynes he has collected; and though our opportunities for seeing really fine typography in this country are so rare that we are not trained to appreciate the delicate finish of these books, yet one cannot help admiring the vellum and gilding, the colored leather, and even the ivory and precious stones. The handsomest books in the collection are two reprints...
...samples of the style of argument employed in the poorest grade of Western journalism: "If it was n't just for the name of the thing, I'd rather a man with a clean mouth would spit in my face than endure the foul breath of a smoker. . . . . A fine gentleman I would be, forsooth, to spit in your face; but if I've a good stomach and a tooth-brush, it's a deal cleaner than the breath from your beslimed mouth. . . . . A young lady said she would always live single and clean, rather than embrace the stench...