refinement

• Refinement enveloped Paul Destournelle--refinement, over-sensitised and under-vitalised, as that of a rare exotic forced into precocious blossoming by application of some artificial horticultural process. —  The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance
• If all the teachers were obliged to pass examinations in culture, refinement, and the art of conveying knowledge, there would be a falling of pedagogic heads. —  As A Chinaman Saw Us Passages from his Letters to a Friend at Home
• It was a warm, luxurious air, perfumy, breathing of that refinement which is possible to mere wealth. —  Phoebe, Junior
• The former cultivated the arts of industry and refinement, and preserved a record embodying both history and scripture, while the latter became degenerate and debased. —  Jesus the Christ A Study of the Messiah and His Mission According to Holy Scriptures Both Ancient and Modern
• That women are emancipated from the almost Oriental thraldom in which they lived in the days of Victoria the Good is a bright sign of our times--the times of discovery, refinement, and mutual happiness of all classes. —  The Stretton Street Affair

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