`` The equipment was fine '', Rob stated, standing up.

But though the Southern States, when drafting a constitution to unite themselves, narrowed the difference to this fine point by omitting to assert the right to secede, the fact remained that by seceding from the Union they had already acted on the concept that it was composed primarily of sovereign states.

`` Until this Hungarian Committee matter came up, Bang-Jensen was a fine and devoted individual.

To me Lilly was a fine and lovely girl.

Little more than a fine old name, valuable principally because of the Franklin tradition, the Saturday Evening Post was slow to revive.

At the same time another child -- this one of Shelley's brain -- was given to the world: Alastor, a poem of pervading beauty in which the reader may gaze into the still depths of a fine mind's musings.

It was a fine broody hen, white, with a maternal eye and a striking abundance of feathers in the under region of the abdomen.

One part of her audience was totally engaged, the connoisseur witnessing a peculiarly fine performance of some ancient classic, the other part, the guest of the connoisseur, attentive as one who must take an intelligent interest in that which he does not fully understand.

Miss Ada was looking fine ; ;

It's the Valmet ( about $170 ), a 12-gauge over/under very much like the old Remington 32 -- which was so fine a gun that today a used one still brings high prices.

It would be fine publicity for the man who was willing to walk to the mayor's throne over the broken reputation of a helpless girl!!

At the home of a gourmet the new maid was instructed in the fine points of serving.

In their book, American Skyline, Christopher Tunnard and Henry Hope Reed argue that Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal was what made the modern suburb a possibility -- a fine ironical argument, when you consider how suburbanites tend to vote.

They were to promise fine presents to the loyal red men, as well as an abundant supply of trading goods at better prices than the opposition was offering.

Then he said, `` Never noticed it before I mean, when she was dressed but for a woman her age, Julia had a real fine figure ''.

So junior's bedroom was usually tricked out with heavy, nondescript pieces that supposedly could take the `` hard knocks '', while the fine secretary was relegated to the parlor where it was for show only.

And Paul Lipson, as Morris, the faithful one who never gets home to his Shirley's dinner, was fine, too.

Miss Vaughan was back in top form, somehow mellowed and improved with the passage of time -- like a fine wine.

Tillie was a fine midwife and could get here quick, he suggested.

the book was a fine historical novel about Edward 3,, and I did a week of research to get the details just right: the fifteenth-century armor, furnishings, clothes.

Jim's fine young face was an expressive one, too ; ;

Elaborate and showy dishes were the result, such as tourte parmerienne which was a pastry dish made to look like a castle with chicken-drumstick turrets coated with gold leaf.

One of the first relevant successful covers was Wynonie Harris's transformation of Roy Brown's 1947 original jump blues hit " Good Rocking Tonight " into a more showy rocker and the Louis Prima rocker " Oh Babe " in 1950, as well as Amos Milburn's cover of what may have been the first white rock and roll record, Hardrock Gunter's " Birmingham Bounce " in 1949.

* There is a single mention of Trimalchio in F. Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby as his showy parties and background parallels that of Gatsby: Chapter Seven begins, " It was when curiosity about Gatsby was at its highest that the lights in his house failed to go on one Saturday night-and, as obscurely as it began, his career as Trimalchio was over.

Vicente Blasco Ibáñez, in his 1916 novel The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse ( filmed in 1921 and in 1962 ), provides an early example of this interpretation, writing " The horseman on the white horse was clad in a showy and barbarous attire.

Perhaps it was Garrick's acting, the most showy of his careers, that brought him the most adulation.

He was also interested in showy Asian objets d ' art such as Mughal hardstone carvings.

Though Morgan's Raid was breathlessly followed by the Northern and Southern press and caused the Union leadership considerable concern, it is now regarded as little more than a showy but ultimately futile sidelight to the war.

Aerial view looking SE The airport and its handsome Spanish revival terminal was a showy new competitor to the nearby Grand Central Airport in neighboring Glendale, which was then Los Angeles ' main airline terminal.

" Fop " was widely used as a derogatory epithet for a broad range of people by the early years of the 18th century ; many of these might not have been considered showy lightweights at the time, and it is possible that its meaning had been blunted by this time.

Although showy polished brass covers over safety valves had been a feature of steam locomotives since Stephenson's day, the only railway to maintain this tradition into the era of pop valves was the GWR, with their distinctive tapered brass safety valve bonnets and copper-capped chimneys.

Anacapa ’ s prolific and dense vegetation was once dominated by the showy Giant Coreopsis Coreopsis gigantea, an erect, shrubby perennial with a stout, succulent trunk growing to some tall.

It was given a showy production and was a success in London.

In between the First and Second WW, Ostrów was one of the fastest growing towns: the number of inhabitants doubled, showy houses were built and modern Railcar Manufacturing ( Fabryka Wagon ) began.

In Elizabethan slang, a ' fantastic ' was a fop ; an " improvident young gallant " who was obsessed with showy dress.

The showy semi-hardy Mexican A. floribunda of the Cordillera of Oaxaca was introduced to English horticulture in 1841.

Faust was rejected by the Paris Opera, on the grounds that it was not sufficiently " showy ", and its appearance at the Théatre-Lyrique was delayed for a year because Adolphe d ' Ennery's drama Faust was playing at the Porte St. Martin.

Above me a dark rider was whipping his pony with a quirt in an attempt to hurdle the bales.

The rider from Concord was as good as his word.

The last thing in the world that resembled a war was our line of farmers and storekeepers and mechanics perched on top of a stone wall, and this dashing rider made us feel a good deal sharper and more alert to the situation.

I don't know whether he was after our rider, who had gone by a minute before, or whether he was simply scouting conditions ; ;

Soon after, the rear freewheel was developed, enabling the rider to coast.

A carbine was typically no longer than a sheathed sabre, both arranged to hang with their tops clear of the rider ’ s elbows and bottoms clear of the horse ’ s legs.

Cavalry tactics in China were enhanced by the invention of the saddle-attached stirrup by at least the 4th century, as the oldest reliable depiction of a rider with paired stirrups was found in a Jin Dynasty tomb of the year 322 AD.

The differences were their role in combat, the size of the mount, and how much armor was worn by the mount and rider.

The invention of stirrups was of great historic significance in mounted combat, giving the rider secure foot support while on horseback.

The design credo Mazda has used across the three generations of the MX5's development was the phrase, which translates loosely into English as " rider ( jin ) horse ( ba ) as one body ( ittai )".

Niccolò Fontana was the son of Michele Fontana, a rider and deliverer.

Burger called the knot a lineman's rider stating it was often used by " linemen and especially telephone men ".

When Tostig asked what his brother Harold would be willing to give Harald Hardrada for his trouble, the rider replied that he would be given seven feet of ground as he was taller than other men.

Harald Hardrada was impressed with the rider and asked Tostig his name, Tostig replied that the rider was none other than Harold Godwinson.

* The first dependable representation of a horse rider with paired stirrups was found in China in a Jin Dynasty tomb ( China ).

The mochila was thrown over the saddle and held in place by the weight of the rider sitting on it.

In leading her army, she displayed significant prowess: she was an able horse rider and would walk three or four miles with her foot soldiers.

She was also an excellent dancer and rider.

The change stated that a fall anywhere during the cross-country phase resulted in elimination, even if the rider was galloping on course and not approaching a jump, or in the middle of a combination.