of the first water

The day shone like a diamond of the first water.

There was nothing about him to recommend a gentleman of the first water.

But he is obviously a sonofabitch of the first water.

They are all large stones of the first water.

A comedienne of the first water, the only really funny woman I ever met in my life.

And this Plume is a rascal of the first water.

This may be for no other reason than that Jack, my former brother-in-law, is a jerk of the first water.

He strikes me as a crook of the first water!"

The mistake had been luck of the first water.

Even this little sample was a paleontological discovery of the first water.

To begin with, a murder-that in itself is a calamity of the first water.

He was truly a mage of the first water.

That hooked-nosed trailer was a crook of the first water.

"Oh, thank you very much," Bill said, feeling that this joker was really a fruitcake of the first water.

Their Tuxedos did not disguise the fact that they were mobsters of the first water.

"Here are zamanders of the first water," said the creature.

Need any more convincing that those fools were fools of the first water?

Isabel is hardly a diamond of the first water."

It is a gem of the first water which Concord wears in her coronet.

Clearly, poor Brod was an idealist of the first water.

If they had, the privy would have included one of the first water closets in the United States.

Two Diamonds of the First Water had brought out all the fashionable young men.

He says he's of the first water, a royal monster, a Prince of his kind."

"You are a rapscallion of the first water, Cornelius.