Her walk was unguarded like her mannerisms, a sweet lack of refinement he wasn't sure he liked.

He was hard and cruel, without any refinement or interest in cultu e.

3), so called from its inventor, is merely a refinement on the Montreuil method.

Probably nowhere can the actual historical progress from the primitive use of animal sacrifices to the later refinement of burning incense be more clearly traced than in the pages of the Old Testament, where no mention of the latter rite occurs before the period of the Mosaic legislation; but in the monuments of ancient Egypt the authentic traces of the use of incense that still exist carry us back to a much earlier date.

As a man of education and refinement, fond of music, the fine arts, and polite literature, he was unintelligible to the szlachta, who regarded all artists and poets as either mechanics or adventurers.