Fine

The tree frog that they encountered was truly a fine specimen.

Only a really fine wine could fully complement Lucía's hand-made pasta.

"That's a fine young fellow," said the historiographer of earwigs, to an American who stood next him in the crowd.

"A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.[…]."

You're a fine one to talk about laziness.

Here's another fine mess you've gotten us into.

A fine romance, with no kisses, A fine romance, my friend, this is; We should be like a couple of hot tomatoes, But you're as cold as yesterday's mashed potatoes.

How are you today? – Fine.

Will this one do? It's got a dent in it. – Yeah, it'll be fine, I guess.

It's fine with me if you stay out late, so long as you're back by three.

On the surface, everything is fine. The sleek, futuristic spaceship setting is fine (if a little cold), the acting is fine (or better than fine, in Lawrence’s case), the music is fine, the lighting is fine, the editing, the camerawork—all fine.

Now all this was very fine, but not at all in keeping with the Celebrity's character as I had come to conceive it. The idea that adulation ever cloyed on him was ludicrous in itself. In fact I thought the whole story fishy, and came very near to saying so.

That man is so fine that I'd jump into his pants without a moment's hesitation.

It was a joy to snatch some brief respite, and find himself in the rectory drawing–room. Listening here was as pleasant as talking; just to watch was pleasant. The young priests who lived here wore cassocks and birettas; their faces were fine and mild, yet really strong, like the rector's face; and in their intercourse with him and his wife they seemed to be brothers.

He's so fine (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang) / Wish he were mine (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang) / That handsome boy over there (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang) / The one with the wavy hair (doo-lang-doo-lang-doo-lang)

In any case, Feinsilver’s nomenclatural suggestions and fine distinctions did not enjoy widespread adoption.

1853, Matthew Arnold, Preface to The Poems of Matthew Arnold They will permit the poet to select any action he pleases, and to suffer that action to go as it will, provided he gratifies them with occasional bursts of fine writing

Thou haſt ſpoken all alreadie, vnleſſe thou canſt ſay they are married, but thou art too fine in thy euidence, therefore ſtand aſide.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!

The nicest and most delicate touches of satire consist in fine raillery.

He has as fine a hand at picking a pocket as a woman.

Do you want to talk about what happened? – [sharply, with annoyance or discomfort] I'm fine!

The small scratch meant that his copy of “X-Men #2” was merely fine when it otherwise would have been “near mint”.

If the afternoon was fine they strolled together in the park, very slowly, and with pauses to draw breath wherever the ground sloped upward. The slightest effort made the patient cough.

Grind it into a fine powder.

When she touched the artifact, it collapsed into a heap of fine dust.

And if thy oblation be a meate offering baken in the frying pan,it ſhalbe made of fine flowꝛe with oyle.

The threads were so fine that you had to look through a magnifying glass to see them.

They protected themselves from the small parasites with a fine wire mesh.

Coins nine tenths fine.

[…]to nudge it through the covers (or tickle it down to fine leg) for a four[…]

The eye standeth in the finer medium and the object in the grosser.

Everything worked out fine.

We had dined at l'Avenue's, and afterward went to the Café de Versailles for coffee. We had several fines after the coffee, and I said I must be going.

‘Darling,’ Lois told her, ‘don't get depressed. Have another fine.’

He refilled his glass. ‘The fine is very good,’ he said.

They filtered silt and fines out of the soil.

to fine gold

1666 (written), 1681 (published), Thomas Hobbes, A Dialogue between a Philosopher and a Student of the Common Laws of England It hath been fined and refined by […] learned men.

The tools to be used for this surface tillage are those that comminute or fine the soil most completely without compacting it or leaving it in ridges or in furrows

to fine down a ship's lines, i.e. to diminish her lines gradually

I often sate at home On evenings, watching how they fined themselves With gradual conscience to a perfect night.

I watched her [the ship] […] gradually fining down in the westward until I lost sight of her hull.

The fine for jay-walking has gone from two dollars to thirty in the last fifteen years.

The popular late Middle Ages fictional character Robin Hood, dressed in green to symbolize the forest, dodged fines for forest offenses and stole from the rich to give to the poor. But his appeal was painfully real and embodied the struggle over wood.

Fine if you've…

She was fined a thousand dollars for littering, but she appealed.

Men fined for the king's good will; or that he would remit his anger; women fined for leave to marry.

And secret feare, to see their fatall fine

Is this the fine of his fines?

To cause them to pay more rent or a gretter fyne than they haue ben acustomed to do in tyme past.