He enjoyed the nicety of real English marmalade for breakfast in the morning. From LearnThat.org.
Note: All this scrupulous nicety is at variance with the decision of St. Paul about meat offered to idols, 1 Cor. x. From Wordnik.com. [The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire] Reference
Another nicety is the brand's Magic Motion zapper. From Wordnik.com. [Crave at CNET UK] Reference
Another nicety is the way that it holds the iPad itself. From Wordnik.com. [Gear Live] Reference
But, Fenty said, no "nicety" would have convinced the council to extend the program. From Wordnik.com. [Fenty pledges to 'change some things' in TV debate] Reference
But do you not think your nicety is a little over - scrupulous? ". From Wordnik.com. [Amelia — Complete] Reference
Unfortunately, case and statutory law has come to be regarded as some kind of nicety -- or a barrier that needs to be overcome. From Wordnik.com. [Signs of the Times] Reference
Let’s think of it as a thank-you note, the kind of nicety that my mother appreciated.”. From Wordnik.com. [Who Would You Thank for Helping You Get Where You Are?] Reference
He knew to a nicety the side his bread was buttered on. From Wordnik.com. [A Pirate of Parts] Reference
I just thrill tothe existence of such a Jesuitical nicety. From Wordnik.com. [Lucy Mangan: All style and substance] Reference
And it expressed his feelings with such a degree of nicety!. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference
He carried the same nicety of detail into his domestic life. From Wordnik.com. [Albert Gallatin American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII] Reference
From head to heels he was adjusted with mathematical nicety. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
No one cares what you wear any more, and all that social nicety stuff is dead. From Wordnik.com. [Audience etiquette matters if the purity of classical music is truly valued] Reference
"Mr. Caske," responded the minister, "you have interpreted my words to a nicety.". From Wordnik.com. [The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn] Reference
Without diplomatic nicety, he condemned the "illegitimate foreign occupation" of Iraq. From Wordnik.com. [A Saudi Desert Fox] Reference
At high-tides, thrift is better than waste; at burials, grief is worth more than nicety. From Wordnik.com. [The Sayings Of Confucius] Reference
The beds are built neatly and firmly and with much nicety as regards size and proportions. From Wordnik.com. [Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure] Reference
A magpie, belonging to a barber at Rome, could imitate to a nicety almost every word it heard. From Wordnik.com. [A Hundred Anecdotes of Animals] Reference
If I hadn't invited anybody to look at my work I'd had perpetual motion down to a nicety today. From Wordnik.com. [Watch Yourself Go By] Reference
To the last, a scrupulous attention to decorum, and nicety in dress characterized Lord Kilmarnock. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Jacobites of 1715 and 1745 Volume III.] Reference
She ceased to rub the table, shook the cloth, folded it with nicety, the other girl speechlessly regarding her. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
You oblige because he's fascinating, knowing all the while that it's a nicety Wainwright would never afford you. From Wordnik.com. [Little Boy Blue] Reference
Another nicety is how high you sit, towering above the road at SUV level, with the safety of a lower center of gravity. From Wordnik.com. [ROAD TEST: MERCURY MONTEREY] Reference
Crowning all, the liquid amber of cafe-au-lait, which Madame, timing our needs to a nicety, poured at just the right moment. From Wordnik.com. [The Greater Love] Reference
In fact, the real lesson of Fuller's career is that in popular culture, visceral power trumps good taste or artistic nicety. From Wordnik.com. [Sam Fuller, Embodying The Best Of Pulp Fiction] Reference
Training in social instinct and nicety is more essential to a man's commercial interests than is visible on the face of things. From Wordnik.com. [Conversation What to Say and How to Say it] Reference
The surface of the ground, he was wont to descant, must be of a particular sort of gravel, sifted just so, and rolled to a nicety. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
I feel torn between my natural instinct to be polite and welcoming, and the feeling that with every nicety I'm betraying my mother. From Wordnik.com. [Torn] Reference
The center of the room was occupied by a square table, on each corner of which lay a book, the four arranged with geometrical nicety. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
The device also adds text-to-speech capability, a nicety featured on the Amazon Kindle, and a compass to enhance maps and GPS navigation. From Wordnik.com. [Apple’s speedier, feature-rich new iPhone 3GS] Reference
This gives a hint of the nicety of the culinary art, the genius required to practise it, and the fine physical effects that hinge upon it. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 97, November, 1865] Reference
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