Wants so easily and gracefully satisfied seem like a more refined pleasure.

In the absence of all refined pleasure, various rude sports are pursued with eagerness, and almost with fury.

One had the refined pleasure of setting others to guess, and the other that of guessing right by naming the masks.

To be blind to their successful handling of line and mass and movement, is to neglect a source of refined pleasure.

Its ingenuity, can always afford a refined pleasure, and it can often, at some risk to itself, convey a valuable truth.

The egotism of his nature, his incapacity for hard, severe economy and the exclusion of luxury and refined pleasure, proved his destruction.

We are again indebted to Mr. Whittier, as we have been so often before, for a very real and a very refined pleasure.

Then she learned to swim, and found also refined pleasure in what I call word-sketching, as to which I shall by and by speak.

But she had, perhaps, learnt too thoroughly her own superiority, and was somewhat apt to look down upon the less refined pleasure of other people.

He was trying to appreciate what a life of refined pleasure which she must live would really be like-howsatisfying-whetherits limitations ever asserted themselves.

The true epicure in refined pleasures will never travel to Basle by night.

There must be some, who, wanting a relish for refined pleasures, pretend to despise what they are incapable of tasting.

I doubt, after all, whether these Romans, with the world at their beck, really knew much of the elegant and refined pleasures of life.