On certain days in all seasons a very old man in a leather apron was to be seen down there, scraping at the gravel with a rake, slow and finical as a Japanese monk. |
Trust the precise and finical Teutons, she thought, to compress so broad a concept into a single handy term. |
She will be sure to be finical, cowardly, or disagreeable in some way. |
There is nothing finical or foppish about the conventions which Mr. Harcourt undertakes to codify and explain. |
She said to herself that this was no time or place for finical delicacy. |
Under this system, the office of the Auditor General Pakistan had access to finical transactions data for auditing, they added. |