In excellent condition.

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1836.  Fine as silk, Colonel, and leetle finer.—‘Col. Crockett in Texas,’ p. 64 (Phila.).

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1839.  “Are you well?” “Fine as silk,” said Mr. Lummucks.—Charles F. Briggs, ‘Harry Franco,’ i. 72.

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1856.  [He] replied to my inquiries concerning his health, that he was “as fine as silk, but not half so much beliked by the ladies.”—G. H. Derby (‘John Phœnix’), ‘Phœnixiana,’ p. 205.

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1860.  

        Pleasant draughts they ’re daily drinking,
  Feeling “just as fine as silk,”
And their tails have got to kinking—
  Jacob feeds them loppered milk.
‘Going Home,’ Knick. Mag., lvi. 434 (Oct.).    

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1908.  He declared that the sonnet was finer’n silk.—St. Paul Pioneer Press, Dec.

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