She was morally a bundle of finesses, but at the bottom of her heart her daughter was all the world to her.
"April Hopes"
William Dean Howells Last Updated: February 27, 2009
A very nice discrimination, not to be acquired except by the education of the world, is necessary to feel the finesses of the heart, if I dare use the expression, with which this work abounds.
"The Confessions of J. J. Rousseau, Book XI."
Jean Jacques Rousseau
But Sir Lionel did not pass on to the tea-tables as did the finesses and the Longspades.
"The Bertrams"
Anthony Trollope