| 1. | To be brief upon a vile topic, none of the low finesse was omitted, so customary upon similar occasions that it is a just matter for wonder how any are still found so besotted as to fall its victim. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 2. | That's why I joined the hussars, thinking that here one would not need finesse and he tells me that I am lying--so let him give me satisfaction.... - from War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy |
| 3. | But it is at the sacrifice of many beautiful qualities of form, as this roughness of surface does not lend itself readily to any finesse of modelling. - from The Practice and Science Of Drawing by Harold Speed |
| 4. | Mr Bloom thoroughly acquiesced in the general gist of this though the mystical finesse involved was a bit out of his sublunary depth still he felt bound to enter a demurrer on the head of simple, promptly rejoinin. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 5. | But the matter is of such importance, that one must _passer pardessus toutes ces finesses de sentiment. - from Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy |