`` 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.

He was a fine and showy rider, but his skill was wasted on us.

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 ; ;

Their reason: Holmes once paid a $20 speeding fine, had his license suspended.

They were imprisoned for 11 months until they paid the fine.

Charged with making " treasonous " remarks against the government, he was released when he took an oath of allegiance to the Union and paid a substantial fine.

Rockefeller calmly informed his golfing partners of the amount of the fine, and proceeded to shoot a personal record score, later stating, " Judge Landis will be dead a long time before this fine is paid.

He remained in prison until an anonymous benefactor paid the fine by mail.

If the visitor fails to do so, usually a quarantine fine of 220 Australian dollars are to be paid as quarantine infringement notice, and if not, the visitor may face criminal convictions of fining 100, 000 Australian dollars and 10 years imprisonment.

The city paid the $ 33, 000 fine and returned $ 1 million in federal airport development grants.

The penalty for murder is a fine paid to the corporation for the victim's estimated value plus his projected future earnings.

In December 2009, Ernst & Young agreed to pay an $ 8. 5 million fine – one of the highest settlements ever paid by an accounting firm – to the Securities and Exchange Commission for its work auditing the books of Bally Total Fitness.

The Archer Daniels Midland Company paid a fine of US $ 100 million, and three of its executives were convicted and served prison time.

In July 2004, the firm paid NASD a $ 2. 2 million fine for more than 1, 800 late disclosures of reportable information about its brokers.

In September 2004, the firm paid a $ 19 million dollar fine imposed by NYSE for failure to deliver prospectuses to customers in registered offerings, inaccurate reporting of certain program trading information, short sale violations, failures to fingerprint new employees and failure to timely file exchange forms.

In mid-2004, two suspected Mossad agents were jailed for three months and paid a $ 35, 000 fine for trying on false grounds to obtain a New Zealand passport.

Then he proceeded from assembly to assembly to outlaw any man, sailor, peasant or noble who left Struer until they paid a heavy fine, more than the annual income of any but the wealthiest nobles.

In January 1897, Homer Plessy pleaded guilty to the violation and paid the fine.

Although Winston had paid off the fine by 1651, it had impoverished the ex-Royalist cavalry captain whose motto Fiel Pero Desdichado ( Faithful but Unfortunate ) is still today used by his descendants.

A fine is money paid usually to superior authority, usually governmental authority, as a punishment for a crime or other offence.

One common example of a fine is money paid for violations of traffic laws.

During the Franco-Prussian War of 1870, the Germans took as hostages the prominent people or officials from towns or districts when making requisitions and also when foraging, and it was a general practice for the mayor and adjoint of a town which failed to pay a fine imposed upon it to be seized as hostages and retained till the money was paid.

The Golden Nugget received a $ 25, 000 fine ( which Sinatra paid, stating that it was his responsibility as he and Martin were the cause of the fine ) and four employees including the dealer, a supervisor and pit boss were suspended from their jobs without pay.

He conceded that the clergy could return to his protection if they paid a fine of a fifth of their revenues, exactly what the northern clergy had offered in the way of taxation.

The royal clerks and many other clergy paid the fines, and in March, the southern clergy met again, and after a long debate, Winchelsey instructed each clerk to decide for himself whether or not to pay the fine.

He paid a fine of $ 300 and was released.