Exquisite perfection

Usage examples of fineness.

Only those above sixteen karats are sent on here to Khanbalik, and only those assayed at the fineness of pure unalloyed gold, twenty-four karats, have any hope of getting near the great Khakhan.

Isaac has found ways to reduce the profit that the Goldsmiths reap when they deliver bullion to the Mint to be coined, and they have retaliated by crafting new trial plates of such fineness that Isaac has been hard pressed to mint guineas pure enough.

The artist is so impatient of dulness, so greedy of fineness, in all his relations, that he is apt to subject himself to a wasteful strain in talking to unperceptive and unappreciative persons.

The frieze which crowned her columns was composed of links of pale gold of the utmost fineness, and my fingers strove in vain to give them another direction to that which nature had given them.

The fineness of his behaviour when I was in prison had given me some idea of the nobility of his soul, but he was not content with this.

Compared with her strength Harry was only a windlestraw, and set against her spiritual fineness no more than a clod.

The buttons of bullion obtained are afterwards remelted with borax and run into bars, the fineness of which varies from 600 to 830 thousandths.

These include Chinese silk, embroidery in gold thread of extreme fineness and technical skill from Byzantium and the Orient, passementerie, heavy gold brocade, and plaited cords of the finest quality.

A set of sieves to determine the relative proportion of powders of different degrees of fineness is sometimes useful.

But they were obviously high slaves, judging by the fineness of their raiment.

Excessive fineness in pulverization of these soils is also to be guarded against in rainy climates, lest they run together, but this condition is present far less frequently than the opposite.

The fineness of his behaviour when I was in prison had given me some idea of the nobility of his soul, but he was not content with this.

Granted that no one can draw a clear line and define the limits within which a miracle is healthy working and beyond which it is unwholesome, any more than he can prescribe the exact degree of fineness to which we must comminute our food.

Early the next morning I called upon Count Dandini, the owner of the carriage, and as I passed a jeweller's shop I bought a pair of gold bracelets in Venetian filigree, each five yards long and of rare fineness.

There you are, hooded like a mother abbess, but in spite of the fineness of the sheath I like the little fellow better quite naked.