All in all they are handsome animals, and added
the finishing touch to the strange and lovely landscape that spread before my new home.
At the Earths Core
He possessed all the civic virtues in their very meanest form, and
the finishing touch was given by a low sort of consciousness he manifested of possessing them.
Chance
But her face was a larger and freer copy, and her mouth in especial a happy divergence from that conservative orifice, a little pair of lips at once plump and pinched, that looked, when closed, as if they could not open wider than to swallow a gooseberry or to emit an "Oh, dear, no!" which probably had been thought to give
the finishing touch to the aristocratic prettiness of the Lady Emmeline Atheling as represented, forty years before, in several Books of Beauty.
American
Meg and John happened to be standing together in the middle of the grass plot, when Laurie was seized with an inspiration which put
the finishing touch to this unfashionable wedding.
Little Women
To lie there helpless when Eva was expecting me, that would be
the finishing touch. I should rise a maniac if ever I rose at all.
Dead Men Tell No Tales
I was only seeking further information, to put
the finishing touch." Evgenie Pavlovitch was silent, but Hippolyte kept his eyes fixed upon him, waiting impatiently for more.
The Idiot
He was an authority on the stage, skilful on the ice or the links with skate or golf-club; he dressed with nice audacity, and, to put
the finishing touch upon his glory, he kept a gig and a strong trotting-horse.
Tales and Fantasies
One day, however, Monsieur Stangerson, as he was leaving the Academy of Science, announced that the marriage of his daughter and Monsieur Robert Darzac would be celebrated in the privacy of the Chateau du Glandier, as soon as he and his daughter had put
the finishing touches to their report summing up their labours on the "Dissociation of Matter." The new household would install itself in the Glandier, and the son-in-law would lend his assistance in the work to which the father and daughter had dedicated their lives.
The Mystery of the Yellow Room
"I'm just finishing
the finishing touches. Want to see it work?"
The Sea Wolf
"He will be able to put
the finishing touches on it.
Tom Swift In The Land Of Wonders
A few terminated in a single fine point, and, like very delicate pencils, were employed in giving
the finishing touches, or in operating upon the more sensitive portions of the body, as was the case in the present instance.
Typee
Rebecca never went across the bridge without bending over the rail to wonder and to ponder, and at this special moment she was putting
the finishing touches on a poem.
Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm
Anne and Gilbert found Uncle Jim sitting on a bench outside the lighthouse, putting
the finishing touches to a wonderful, full-rigged, toy schooner.
Annes House of Dreams
The porches purchased everything from a brace and bit to a lathe for the new tool-room and put
the finishing touches to the dairy.
Dust
He was still at work on the problem, when the young surgeon returned to his cabin to put
the finishing touches to his toilet.
Miss or Mrs