Meanings of fine names in English

It's no use calling things by fine names-thecountry's ruined by cowardice.

The streets have fine names: there is Gold Street, and then Jacob Street.

Oh, people have fine names for a woman of that sort.

Pride and anger and self-assertion and retaliation flaunt in fine names, and are called manly virtues.

The county paper is full of fine names.

But when one christens one's self suddenly, the fine names do not seem to suggest themselves.

We have found out fine names to cover our sensuality withal, but no gifts can raise intemperance.

We must not be tempted to call things by too fine names, lest we should disguise them.

I don't believe in fine names myself.

We have fine names for our own vices, and ugly ones for the very same vices in other people.

Yet, line for line, and point for point, your dominion is as great as theirs, though without fine names.

Some persons might object to the papers being signed occasionally with rather fine names, but this is an American fashion.

You have not found out yet that boys are laughed at about their sisters, particularly if the girls have fine names.

He tried to satisfy himself that business required such action, and called his sharp practice by the fine names of skill, sagacity.

There are Circuses, Crescents, Terraces, Parades, and all such fine names as we have become familiar with at Leamington, and other watering-places.

He saw how in the suddenness of her perception she called herself one of the women for whom people have such fine names.