Luxurious

Examples

• But, though luxurious, the Norman nobles were not generally speaking an intemperate race. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• He was neither ostentatious nor luxurious, neither did he care about social position, not finally. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• And so, by the dog of Egypt, we have been unconsciously purging the State, which not long ago we termed luxurious. Plato. The Republic.
• It was the prettiest and most luxurious little sitting-room I had ever seen; and I admired it with the warmest enthusiasm. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• It will do me good, for since you came I have been altogether lazy and luxurious. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• He was luxurious in his way of living, and fond of beautiful things. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• My self-approval when I ticked an entry was quite a luxurious sensation. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• The most luxurious were often the first to part with their indulgencies. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• Those Pompeiians were very luxurious in their tastes and habits. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The hotel was very luxurious. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
• Volumnia, as one of the more privileged cousins, in a luxurious chair between them. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• We had resolved to pass the ensuing winter at Milan, which, as being a large and luxurious city, would afford us choice of homes. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• It was the queerest of rooms, fitted and furnished more like a luxurious amateur tap-room than anything else within the ken of Silas Wegg. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• On the whole, the appearance of the place was luxurious and romantic. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Uncle Tom's Cabin.
• Gaylord's itself had seemed indecently luxurious and corrupt. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• Then she leaned forward and kissed him, with a slow, luxurious kiss, lingering on the mouth. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• If they are poor, they will be mean; if rich, luxurious and lazy; and in neither case contented. Plato. The Republic.
• The Caliph had become a luxurious Emperor or King of Kings; the administration had changed from a patriarchal system to a bureaucracy. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• There was a dreaminess in the rest, too, which made it still more perfect and luxurious to repose in. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• There were none in her father's house; but wealth is luxurious and daring, and some of hers found its way to a circulating library. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• When, however, social pride and luxurious city life became the dominant passions, agriculture was left to menials, and the art gradually faded with the State. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Julia's attitudes, though graceful, were studied and luxurious; but always modest and effeminate. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• Lord Hertford then proposed to show us a small detached building, which he had taken pains to fit up in a very luxurious style of elegance. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• The Cretan labyrinth was a building as stately, complex, and luxurious as any in the ancient world. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Work was soon resumed at Louisville, where the dilapidated old office occupied at the close of the war had been exchanged for one much more comfortable and luxurious in its equipment. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• You are ambitious, Eustacia--no, not exactly ambitious, luxurious. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• We were all equal now; magnificent dwellings, luxurious carpets, and beds of down, were afforded to all. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.

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