...And, indeed, it required but one glance of Mademoiselle Danglars to comprehend the justness, as well as nature, of Morcerf 's remark--" she was certainly handsome, " but her beauty was of too marked and decided a character to please a fastidious taste; her hair was raven black, but amid its natural waves might b seen a species of rebellion to the hand that sought to band and braid it; her eyes, of the same color as her air, were richly fringed and surmounted by well-arched brows, whose great defect, however, consisted in an almost habitual frown; while her whole physiognomy wore that expression of firmness and decision so little in accordance with the gentler attributes of her sex--her nose was precisely what a statuary would have chosen for a chiselled Juno ....

...She is fastidious ....

...And richly she deserves his love, for she dotes upon him, she studies, or rather perhaps anticipates, his every wish; in short, had the whole sex been searched for one calculated to make happy the morbidly fastidious Aubrey, the choice must surely have fallen on Miss St. Clair; a woman whose temper, whose tastes, and whose manners were at once in delicate and harmonizing unison and contrast with his own ....

...Kiss--" Just in time the fastidious son of a still more fastidious father pulled himself up; but to a more discerning bride, his face would already have finished his sentence . "...

...It was the none too fastidious kitchen of a none too fastidious woman ....

...You are fastidious, little one; and in exquisite things how can one be too fastidious !...

...after living for three years within the subtile influence of an intellect like Emerson 's; after those wild, free days on the Assabeth, indulging fantastic speculations, beside our fire of fallen boughs, with Ellery Channing; after talking with Thoreau about pine-trees and Indian relics, in his hermitage at Walden; after growing fastidious by sympathy with the classic refinement of Hillard 's culture; after becoming imbued with poetic sentiment at Longfellow 's hearth-stone ;--it was time, at length, that I should exercise other faculties of my nature, and nourish myself with food for which I had hitherto had little appetite ....

...He was at the same time haughty, reserved, and fastidious; and his manners, though well bred, were not inviting ....

...I was no vocalist myself, and in his fastidious judgment, no musician either; but I delighted in listening when the performance was good ....

...He is fastidious, and will have an affectation of his own . " "...

...He was so fastidious and prim about his place that a boy would go to a good deal of trouble to throw a dead cat into his back yard, or to dump a sackful of tin cans in his alley ....

...I venture to say this without reserve; for I am not aware of any writer in our language having a respect for himself, or held in any respect by his posterity, who ever has descended to the taste of this fastidious class ....

...At length his accurate and fastidious eye seemed satisfied, and throwing out his left arm on the barrel, he was slowly elevating the muzzle, when an exclamation from Uncas, who sat in the bow, once more caused him to suspend the shot ....

...Flaubert wrote his great masterpiece ` Madame Bovary ' deliberately in his maturity; and the notoriety which carried him with it into the law-courts, made him a martyr in a society that was by no means fastidious ....

...He does n't like to stay with Randolph; he 's the most fastidious man I ever saw ....

...More completely than any other expression of wealth they symbolized the life she longed to lead, the life of fastidious aloofness and refinement in which every detail should have the finish of a jewel, and the whole form a harmonious setting to her own jewel-like rareness ....