How To Use Nicety In A Sentence

  • The operation of budding requires a good deal of nicety: first, to avoid wounding the wood of the stock in slitting the bark; and, secondly, to make the bark of the scion fit quite closely to the wood of the stock, as, if the least vacuity is left between them, the bud will wither instead of beginning to grow. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • The operation of budding requires a good deal of nicety: first, to avoid wounding the wood of the stock in slitting the bark; and, secondly, to make the bark of the scion fit quite closely to the wood of the stock, as, if the least vacuity is left between them, the bud will wither instead of beginning to grow. The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
  • Then comes the difficult task of felling the trees between the rows of coffee, a work of great nicety, which is partly effected by the final stroke of the axe, and partly by hauling a rope attached to the top of the tree. Gold, Sport, and Coffee Planting in Mysore
  • That's fine, it's no big deal, and it's said as much as a social nicety than with any intent to actually do it.
  • Story eventually, i can only one man looked at the memory of the nicety lost.
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  • It required much effort to come up to the nicety considered by Jean indispensable in the churn; and the croucher on the ceiling, when he saw the long nose advance to prosecute inquiry into its condition, mentally trembled lest the next movement should condemn his endeavour as a failure. Sir Gibbie
  • Nevertheless, the book is rich in historical nicety culled from scholarly sources, and the avid fan of cultural folklore and the role of fraternal societies will experience it as a tough but rewarding nut to crack.
  • That kind of diplomatic nicety from the Russians was so surprising that Clay immediately sent a “Confidential” cable to Washington saying: “Soviet courtesy of this type is so unusual that I attach significance to it as a possible preliminary move to a settlement which would be intended to prevent West German government.” Daring Young Men
  • There he had built what he called a nest, but what humans, with greater nicety of diction, call a drey. "Wee Tim'rous Beasties" Studies of Animal life and Character
  • Note: All this scrupulous nicety is at variance with the decision of St. Paul about meat offered to idols, 1 Cor. x. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
  • The reply skated over the nicety that he has the right to censor key aspects of ISC reports on security grounds, and so will see the text before it is technically presented to him.
  • It is with great propriety that subtlety, which in its original import means exility of particles, is taken in its metaphorical meaning for nicety of distinction. English literary criticism
  • One should hasten to say, however, that over-nicety in enunciation, pedantic exactness, obtrusive "elocutionary" excellence, or any sort of labored or affected effort should be carefully guarded against. Public Speaking
  • This may sound a technical nicety, but notice that this activity is the primary activity on derivatives markets.
  • The job calls for nicety of judgment.
  • Fry's displaced neighbors may not have known it, but their financial future hung on a legal nicety - the distinction between real estate and personal property or, in legal terms, chattel.
  • These sub-heads, which are not all very clearly phrased, should accordingly be construed according to their general sense and without too much nicety of language.
  • Last year, Porto brushed aside Monaco; the previous year Milan won on penalties after a match that was long on tactical nicety but short on excitement for the neutral.
  • We seem to get a glimpse of the schooling of his "choiceful sense" to that nicety which could not be content till it had made his native tongue "search all her coffers round. Among My Books Second Series
  • Our company accepts various diagrams of nicety accessories and samples processing, and can offer an itemized list of the 17% export added value tax invoice.
  • Television sets require nicety of adjustment.
  • “To a nicety, that is my opinion, now that you put it so clearly, sir.” Mary Anerley
  • One thing that may or may not be a nicety is the Organizer, which keeps a list of projects, code repositories, and iOS devices for testing. Ars Technica
  • Story eventually, i can only one man looked at the memory of the nicety lost.
  • Do you experimentalize on the subject, that you calculate her paths with such nicety? John Halifax, Gentleman
  • Barry made a _renversement_ with the utmost nicety of judgment and came out of it about thirty metres behind and above the High Adventure A Narrative of Air Fighting in France
  • He spoke in that quiet deliberate manner, and in that undertone, which is often observable in mechanics who consider and adjust with great nicety. Little Dorrit
  • Another nicety is the way that it holds the iPad itself. Gear Live
  • This confluence happens 100 yards behind Bath railway station, and matches the city's nicety of line.
  • Mrs. Copley could not eat much, nor Dolly; and yet the form of coming to breakfast and the nicety of the preparation were a comfort; they always are; they seem to say that all things are not confusion, and give a kind of guaranty for the continuance of old ways. The End of a Coil
  • The character of the hero is depicted to a nicety.
  • An hibernian musician, who, like myself, was present for the first time at this _concert_ of _antimusic_, exclaimed, "By Jasus but they stop out of tune to a _nicety! Travels in the United States of America Commencing in the Year 1793, and Ending in 1797. With the Author's Journals of his Two Voyages Across the Atlantic.
  • When asked who would be a good model woman writer she responded, ‘I know of no one better than Miss Jewett to study for technique and nicety of construction.’
  • It was really an admirable little dinner; the claret was a famous one from the Anglemere cellars, and warmed to a nicety; the coffee was perfection; Sparling's ministrations left nothing to be desired; and yet Drake sank into his easy-chair after the meal with a sigh that was weary and wistful. Nell, of Shorne Mills or, One Heart's Burden
  • The character of the hero is depicted to a nicety.
  • Also can suit to enhance range and nicety of barbette, convenience to repaire and update. Mini Star | SciFi, Fantasy & Horror Collectibles
  • I wish I can keep my elegancy, nicety , sensibility, creativity and still easily forgiven.
  • Main product: Packing aluminum metal alloy mould Knife mould mechanical series Electronics nicety washes mould Precision testing machine Precision part.
  • Another nicety is the brand's Magic Motion zapper. Crave at CNET UK
  • The TCA measurement robot is characterized by high accuracy, good efficient and reliance and nicety of acquired data in dam outer deformation monitoring.
  • The pistol had been bought and prepared for the purpose with the utmost nicety, not only for use but show; nor is it unfrequent to find in such instances of premeditated ferocity in design a fearful kind of coxcombry lavished upon the means. The Disowned — Volume 08
  • But, Fenty said, no "nicety" would have convinced the council to extend the program. Fenty pledges to 'change some things' in TV debate
  • Story eventually, i can only one man looked at the memory of the nicety lost.
  • We do not much applaud his taste; for though it is decidedly inferior to her other works, having less plot, and what there is, less artificially wrought up, and also less exquisite nicety of moral painting; yet the same kind of excellences which characterise the other novels may be perceived in this, in a degree which would have been highly creditable to most other writers of the same school, and which would have entitled the author to considerable praise, had she written nothing better. Famous Reviews
  • Main product: Packing aluminum metal alloy mould Knife mould mechanical series Electronics nicety washes mould Precision testing machine Precision part.
  • But although by this improved acidimeter the quantity of acids could be ascertained with more nicety, there remained one defect, that in often turning the glass tube for mixing the fluids, some of the contents adhered to the thumb in closing its mouth. The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines
  • Story eventually, i can only one man looked at the memory of the nicety lost.
  • To a nicety, that is my opinion, now that you put it so clearly, sir. Mary Anerley : a Yorkshire Tale
  • It is with great propriety that subtilty, which, in its original import, means exility of particles, is taken, in its metaphorical meaning, for nicety of distinction. Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
  • This portraiture is accomplished with remarkable skill, the traits both individual and national being marked with great nicety without obtrusiveness. Poems: Descriptive, Dramatic, Legendary and Contemplative, by William Gilmore Simms, Esq. In Two Volumes: Vol. II. I. Southern Passages and Pictures; II. Historical and Dramatic Sketches; III. Scripture Legends; IV. Francesca Da Rimini
  • Armado valued himself on the nicety of his skill in taking up quarrels according to the rules of art, and adjusting the ceremonies of the duello.
  • This is no semantic nicety; rather, it is arguable that the distinction reveals something of their political specificities.
  • My dear friend, your offers of help, and those of my other British friends, I think I fully appreciate, in the right spirit, welcome and acceptive -- leaving the matter altogether in your and their hands, and to your and their convenience, discretion, leisure, and nicety. Collect ; from Complete Poetry and Collected Prose
  • To the right and left of the lintel, which rests upon the jambs, there are to be projections fashioned like projecting bases and jointed to a nicety with the cymatium itself. The Ten Books on Architecture
  • The folds of the drapery, the fall of the curtains, had been arranged and rearranged, by Adolph and Rosa, with that nicety of eye which characterizes their race.

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