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  • The more sumptuous the dope, the deeper the anguish —mental and physical — when it wore off.†   (source)
  • Row after row of sumptuous blooms, in lush pink, sunset orange, and even pale blue.†   (source)
  • Dinner was held in a sumptuous dining room.†   (source)
  • At the same time, he wants to convey the sense of tension and conflict that has been running through the evening—there are a host of us-against-them and you-against-me moments earlier and even during the meal—and this tension will stand at odds with the sharing of this sumptuous and, given the holiday, unifying meal.†   (source)
  • Biscuit tins with sumptuous pictures of English castles and ladies with bustles and ringlets.†   (source)
  • It's August, so sumptuous that I couldn't bear any more black squares, but no, it's been nothing but hearts, Nick acting like my husband, sweet and loving and goofy.†   (source)
  • Then came the knock of the fishwife with her box of red snappers dying on a bed of algae, the sumptuous fruit sellers with vegetables from Maria la Baja and fruit from San Jacinto.†   (source)
  • The Dodge slowed down, and Dick gave the man a sumptuous smile.†   (source)
  • It was a sumptuous room, sure-a room half the kids in Sterling High would have given their right arm to enter-but it was also a room from which there really wasn't an escape.†   (source)
  • In those long night watches while the lights flared on either side of her mirror, and the luxurious room of a modern young lady lay disclosed, with all its sumptuous fittings of beauty and inutility, Lydia went over her plans of campaign.†   (source)
  • Then someone appeared and began to put things on a table, to move the magazines and picture books and put out bowls and crocks and cut flowers and then to reinstate some of the picture books but only the ones that claimed a status of a certain sumptuous kind.†   (source)
  • And he couldn't get deep into Guitar's talk of elegant clothes for himself and his brother, sumptuous meals for Uncle Billy, and week-long card games in which the stakes would be a yard and a half and then a deuce and a quarter.†   (source)
  • The guests enjoyed a sumptuous feast—jackrabbit stew, Jobe's favorite dish, cooked in clay pots over flaming mesquite branches; spicy tortillas, fried potatoes, wild spinach, beans whipped into a pudding.†   (source)
  • Lestat had always known how to steal from victims chosen for sumptuous dress and other promising signs of extravagance.†   (source)
  • They unstitched the sumptuous dress of Chantilly lace that Clara had worn the day Barrabas died, and made a time-colored mosquito net, which also protected them from the spiders that fell down unexpectedly from embroidering on the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Milo had at his disposal sumptuous quarters inside a salmon-pink palace, but Yossarian and Orr were not allowed to accompany him inside because they were Christian infidels.†   (source)
  • Donald excuses himself and moves to a central spot in the sumptuous living room to give a toast, holding out his crystal glass of white wine.†   (source)
  • By the time Eve walked into the sumptuous foyer of Roarke's midtown office, she'd been up for more than thirty-two hours.†   (source)
  • Installed into my bedroom, the craftsmanship looks sumptuous, ornate and quite rich!†   (source)
  • They were received in the King's sumptuous, gilded bedchamber, as the King went through the elaborate morning ceremony of being dressed by officers of the state.†   (source)
  • It was held in several sumptuous acres of office near Rockefeller Center with mountains of caviar high enough to ski on.†   (source)
  • Abandoned buildings were seen less often, the naked children vanished, the bravos in the doorways seemed more sumptuously dressed.†   (source)
  • So in spite of the fact that Little Arliss had caused me to make a bad shot, we had us a real sumptuous supper that night.†   (source)
  • The chefs placed platters of sumptuous, steaming food into a hole in the wall, then pulled on a rope that raised the small elevator and its cargo up into the palace.†   (source)
  • It is as I remember it: sumptuous pallets sit on a floor made of golden straw.†   (source)
  • And yet the pleasure was sumptuous, a banquet of exotic delicacies.†   (source)
  • Speaking too softly to hear, the maids spoke in laundry code, and shortly thereafter their arms ballooned around sumptuous silk and velvet dresses.†   (source)
  • Music, for one thing; just the availability of music alone, she said, filled her insides with a sense of delectation, as one feels just before what one knows will be a sumptuous meal.†   (source)
  • Although it was only mid-morning, I cooked a sumptuous dinner for myself, but I don't remember what it was.†   (source)
  • His farmhouse was the size of a circus tent and as lavish as a Thanksgiving dinner—rich, sumptuous, fine carvings and inlaid jewels.†   (source)
  • The meal was sumptuous, but throughout it his black eyes never left me.†   (source)
  • Some wore sumptuous robes of ermine, ruby velvet, and cloth of gold.†   (source)
  • Luxury was no longer a sumptuous banquet, a well-appointed suite.†   (source)
  • Below him, the sumptuous nature of the patterned disk was even more apparent.†   (source)
  • It is sumptuous without being gaudy, extravagant without being hideous.†   (source)
  • The island's sumptuous cuisine lost its taste, books no longer held his interest, and even the dazzling sunsets from his villa looked dull.†   (source)
  • "How're we getting to King's Cross tomorrow, Dad?" asked Fred as they dug into a sumptuous chocolate pudding.†   (source)
  • The hallway was large, dimly lit, and sumptuously decorated, with a magnificent carpet covering most of the stone floor.†   (source)
  • It was enormous, and looked rather like the interior of a particularly sumptuous tree house, or perhaps a gigantic ship's cabin.†   (source)
  • She, along with almost the entire city, had been at the window since eleven o'clock, watching the largest and most sumptuous funeral procession that had been seen here since the death of Archbishop De Luna.†   (source)
  • From where the sleeves ended, her soft arm-flesh swelled and dropped over her dimpled elbows in a sumptuous bulge.†   (source)
  • Which was in no way characteristic of his age or time, where animals featured mainly dead, in sumptuous trophy pieces, limp hares and fish and fowl, heaped high and bound for table?†   (source)
  • The feast was sumptuous.†   (source)
  • On one of those Sundays he visited the new cemetery adjacent to the church, where the residents of La Manga were building their sumptuous pantheons, and his heart skipped a beat when he discovered the most sumptuous of all in the shade of the great ceiba trees.†   (source)
  • Hvedra was attired even more richly, with strips of embroidered cloth upon her sumptuous dress, strands of pearls and twisted gold around her neck, and in her hair, an ivory comb set with an emerald as large as Eragon's thumb.†   (source)
  • After they trooped into the sumptuous entryway, the butler swept past them and down a polished wood hallway to one door among many, which he opened and ushered them through.†   (source)
  • Sumptuous estates stood here and there: sprawling stone manors protected by their own high walls and, Roran assumed, by their own guards.†   (source)
  • In the corner of a parking lot, among the sumptuous boutiques, they've reconstructed a forties diner.†   (source)
  • It had been months since she had first seen it, yet she had never grown used to the grandeur, the sumptuousness, the simple, unadulterated wealth.†   (source)
  • He almost never comes over to this side of town, but last year he visited this mall once-a sumptuous four-story complex with clothes he sees in magazines and a good record shop— and had often thought of returning.†   (source)
  • The heavy-shouldered dwarf was appareled in sumptuous red robes, the borders of which gleamed with runes outlined with metal thread.†   (source)
  • Felicity and Ann show the factory girls how to turn their ragged skirts into sumptuous silks with beads and embroidery like those from the finest shops in Paris.†   (source)
  • The guests ate and drank sumptuously, and watched the sun rise as they danced to the strains of the orchestra, while downtown, in the center of the city, groups of unemployed workers huddled around tiny bonfires, gangs of young men in dark shirts marched around raising their arms in stiff salute, imitating the figures they had seen in German movies, and in the headquarters of the various political parties the final touches were being put on campaign strategies for the upcoming…†   (source)
  • Milo cursed himself hourly for his monumental greed and stupidity in purchasing the entire Egyptian cotton crop, but a contract was a contract and had to be honored, and one night, after a sumptuous evening meal, all Milo's fighters and bombers took off, joined in formation directly overhead and began dropping bombs on the group.†   (source)
  • It is someone else entirely—a Gibson Girl, roughly twenty years of age, with sumptuous dark curls, an upturned nose, and eyes the color of sapphires.†   (source)
  • All of this sumptuous land cut through by a deep clear rushing river, the Fox, whose fish-filled waters had drawn generations of Indians and, later, the great tides of European immigrants, Dutch and German, flowing west in their caravans of prairie schooners.†   (source)
  • If all those years ago in Africa a person had told me that someday the spirits would join me in the ful? llment of my wishes, I might have imagined pure love between husband and wifeworldly travel and long sumptuous meals that added not a pound to my frame.†   (source)
  • She crossed the sumptuous dwarf-woven rug in the center of the room to join Orrin in inspecting the battle-torn city, where she was pleased to see that all but two of the fires along the western wall had been extinguished.†   (source)
  • His mind wanders back to beloved Marblehead, a sumptuous seaside exurb of Boston where he could drink a bit, do some experimenting with his girlfriend in the back seat of his car, and then set off on his path to college and beyond.†   (source)
  • This time breakfast was sumptuous.†   (source)
  • But none of these at all diminished a kind of wonderfully negligent sexuality having to do at that moment, at least, with the casual but forthright way her pelvis moved and with her truly sumptuous rear end.†   (source)
  • Sumptuous in a (for that time) daring two-piece white nylon bathing suit which revealed, so far as I was able swiftly to reckon, the first grown-up female navel I had ever beheld in the flesh, she alone among the group acknowledged Morty Haber's introduction with anything warmer than a glance of puzzled mistrust.†   (source)
  • By comparison with the food fed to the prisoners in the camp at large, this was a sumptuous meal; indeed, it was a banquet in terms of mere quantity, and since this breakfast was occasionally augmented, inexplicably, by such tidbits as canned sardines or a hunk of Polish sausage, it simply was assumed that the Commandant had seen to it that his household staff would not starve.†   (source)
  • Kay's sumptuous bath had to be set up in the box-room, between two towel-horses and an old box of selected games which contained a worn-out straw dart-board—it was called flechette in those days—because all the other rooms were full of packing.†   (source)
  • Accordingly the man brought out a sumptuous and elegant chariot, and, adorning it richly, he harnessed to it four state horses of the Sindhava breed, as white as the petals of the white lotus, and announced to the Future Buddha that everything was ready.†   (source)
  • And men and women labored at the cutting and contriving of heavy furs for the winter and of soft light furs for the spring and at the thick brocaded silks, to cut and shape them into sumptuous robes for the ones who ate of the profusion at the markets, and they themselves snatched a bit of coarse blue cotton cloth and sewed it hastily together to cover their bareness.†   (source)
  • There was also a vast new hotel, a sumptuous wooden barn, rambling comfortably upon the summit of a commanding hill.†   (source)
  • There seemed, indeed, something almost preordained in the ease with which their two minds approached each other; it was as if in Conway all secret tensions were relaxed, giving him, when he came away, a sumptuous tranquillity.†   (source)
  • At first he had lots of friends coming to see him in the onetime sumptuous bedroom, furnished by his third wife, who had left him ten years ago, with an Empire four-poster bed and gilded mirrors, Cupid with his head inside a bow.†   (source)
  • He swept lightly across the room to the most prominent canvas—a jungle landscape— paused a moment, his head cocked like a knowing terrier, and asked: "Where, my dear Charles, did you find this sumptuous greenery?†   (source)
  • When she was gone he stepped into the room, sumptuous in his black velvet, with one cold diamond beaming in the rushlight from his scarlet badge.†   (source)
  • But maybe that spicy, sumptuous fish-gravy odor that belonged to the past made me too much of a critic of the present moment, exaggerating Mama's difficulties and imagining that the Gulistan and the drapes were the softenings of a cage.†   (source)
  • "Well," said Horse Hines, "I could sell you this one," he indicated the most sumptuous casket in the room.†   (source)
  • The goddess offered her milk to the youth from a sumptuous breast, and after partakingof it he felt his strength increase a hundredfold.†   (source)
  • More practically, he saw for himself great mansions in the ground, grottoes buried in the deep heart of a hill, vast chambers of brown earth, sumptuously appointed with his bee-like plunder.†   (source)
  • Now, instead of the plates made of bread, there were covered dishes, scented finger bowls, sumptuous table cloths, a plethora of napkins.†   (source)
  • He stayed in Richmond several days, living sumptuously in the splendid hotel, eating from silver dishes in the grill, and roaming pleasantly through the wide streets of the romantic old town, to which he had come once as a Freshman at Thanksgiving, when the university's team had played Virginia there.†   (source)
  • The bed was a sumptuous one with a coverlet of red sendal, to match the tent Lancelot rolled himself in it, pressed his nose into the silk pillow, kissed it for Guenever, and was fast asleep.†   (source)
  • Arthur put their bodies into sumptuous coffins—not sarcastically—and sent them to the Lord Mayor of Rome, instead of the tribute which had been demanded.†   (source)
  • It had once been something to live for, a handrail— not a particularly sumptuous handrail, but sufficiently serviceable to keep her upright She had been able to make do.†   (source)
  • It was a sumptuous interior, what with the royal tapestries—Uriah was there, still in the article of bisection—and the couch strewn deep with furs, and the flashing candles.†   (source)
  • On one side would be a commodious gibbet set up by some old-fashioned princeling to hang King Arthur's knights and the common Saxons who trusted them—a gibbet perhaps nearly as sumptuous as that constructed at Montfaucon, which could support sixty bodies depending like drab fuchsias between its sixteen stone pillars.†   (source)
  • He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal.†   (source)
  • —but anyway, it looks out on Fifth Avenue, and I'm designing a sumptuous——"†   (source)
  • Yes, I didn't sleep all that well, and then the first breakfast was really too sumptuous.†   (source)
  • "You'll find it large enough to cook our sumptuous repasts,' he retorted lightly.†   (source)
  • We went into the kitchen and there found preparations for a truly sumptuous meal.†   (source)
  • "You are sumptuous, opulent, expensive," her father rejoined.†   (source)
  • The lama, sumptuously fed by Mahbub's Baltis, was already asleep in a corner of one of the stalls.†   (source)
  • The pedagogue's mouth watered as he looked upon this sumptuous promise of luxurious winter fare.†   (source)
  • We established ourselves in one of the smallest and least sumptuously furnished apartments.†   (source)
  • Becky admired him smiling sumptuously, easy, lofty, and stately.†   (source)
  • It caused a visible stir of surprise, it being brand new and a sumptuous article of deal.†   (source)
  • The mansion in Saville Row, though not sumptuous, was exceedingly comfortable.†   (source)
  • I must get into sumptuous raiment, and it wouldn't do to run and jump into it.†   (source)
  • They would see the sumptuousness of Venice, not its shape, and though Venice was not Europe, it was part of the Mediterranean harmony.†   (source)
  • If his income were L5000 a year, he would give away L4500 in one form and another, and live sumptuously (for him) on the remainder.†   (source)
  • I decided to treat myself to a sumptuous feast, and then put up at a good hotel, and accumulate a new outfit of property.†   (source)
  • After so much self-colour and self-denial, Margaret viewed with relief the sumptuous dado, the frieze, the gilded wall-paper, amid whose foliage parrots sang.†   (source)
  • The floors were of brightly colored tiles, the walls a composition of rich, dark, polished wood, which gave the place a very sumptuous appearance.†   (source)
  • Everything on board the DAY DREAM was fitted with that exquisite luxury, so dear to Sir Percy Blakeney's heart, and by the time they all landed at Dover he had found time to get into some of the sumptuous clothes which he loved, and of which he always kept a supply on board his yacht.†   (source)
  • It had occurred to me that this shadow of a garage must be a blind, and that sumptuous and romantic apartments were concealed overhead, when the proprietor himself appeared in the door of an office, wiping his hands on a piece of waste.†   (source)
  • A few sumptuously-cloaked ladies were already gathered in the marble vestibule, and in the coat-room he found Van Alstyne and Gus Trenor.†   (source)
  • The very fleshly sumptuousness of most of these figures, dull and un-romantic as might be the brains that directed them, interested him for the time being.†   (source)
  • Two nomadic old maids, dressed up to kill, worked acrimoniously through the bill of fare, whispering to each other with faded lips, wooden-faced and bizarre, like two sumptuous scarecrows.†   (source)
  • She contemplated with the greatest interest this woman who gave the most sumptuous dinners in America, and who had all the men in New Orleans at her feet.†   (source)
  • The red shades to the candles on the tables, the gold of the decorations, the looking-glasses, lent the room a sumptuous air.†   (source)
  • Helen's first wifely duty was to insist that she should and could and would help her husband with the work of cleaning up after the sumptuous supper.†   (source)
  • They were too hungry to stop to fish, but they fared sumptuously upon cold ham, and then threw themselves down in the shade to talk.†   (source)
  • Whenever I dozed I dreamt of horrible phantasms, of the death of the curate, or of sumptuous dinners; but, asleep or awake, I felt a keen pain that urged me to drink again and again.†   (source)
  • In years past she had sat with him in the soft, subdued, gold-green shadows of the Astor, or in the sumptuous atmosphere of the St. Regis.†   (source)
  • She had feared at the last moment that she was risking too much in dispensing with the advantages of a more sumptuous setting, and the completeness of her triumph gave her an intoxicating sense of recovered power.†   (source)
  • A sumptuous breakfast of bacon and fish was shortly provided, and as the boys set to work upon it, Tom recounted (and adorned) his adventures.†   (source)
  • In other respects Sunday offered nothing out of the ordinary, apart perhaps from the meals, which, since they could hardly be more sumptuous, were at least marked by a refinement in the cuisine.†   (source)
  • They entered the lobby already swarming with patrons, and then, after divesting themselves of their wraps, went into a sumptuous dining-room.†   (source)
  • Furthermore, in one of the daily papers appeared a brief notice to the effect that Mr. and Mrs. Pontellier were contemplating a summer sojourn abroad, and that their handsome residence on Esplanade Street was undergoing sumptuous alterations, and would not be ready for occupancy until their return.†   (source)
  • Meantime the sumptuous robe of state had been removed from Tom's shoulders to the King's, whose rags were effectually hidden from sight under it.†   (source)
  • He ate a great deal, attacking the sumptuous Berghof meals—a roast beef course followed by a roast goose course—with an immense appetite not all that uncommon here, particularly in winter it seemed.†   (source)
  • The dark panelling, the massive, tarnished gold of the cornice, the mahogany tables, gave the room an air of sumptuous comfort, and the leather-covered seats along the wall were soft and easy.†   (source)
  • Slippered, and wrapped in a sumptuous robe, he laid himself down at last to rest, but not to sleep, for his head was too full of thoughts and the room too full of people.†   (source)
  • A brilliant Miss Smedden from Brooklyn showed to perfection the sumptuous curves of Titian's Daughter, lifting her gold salver laden with grapes above the harmonizing gold of rippled hair and rich brocade, and a young Mrs. Van Alstyne, who showed the frailer Dutch type, with high blue-veined forehead and pale eyes and lashes, made a characteristic Vandyck, in black satin, against a curtained archway.†   (source)
  • At Fifty-ninth Street and Fifth Avenue a blaze of lights from several new hotels which bordered the Plaza Square gave a suggestion of sumptuous hotel life.†   (source)
  • With large gestures and in the emphatic tone which made what he said so striking, Athelny described to Philip the Spanish cathedrals with their vast dark spaces, the massive gold of the altar-pieces, and the sumptuous iron-work, gilt and faded, the air laden with incense, the silence: Philip almost saw the Canons in their short surplices of lawn, the acolytes in red, passing from the sacristy to the choir; he almost heard the monotonous chanting of vespers.†   (source)
  • Tom played with the jewelled dagger that hung upon his thigh; he examined the costly and exquisite ornaments of the room; he tried each of the sumptuous chairs, and thought how proud he would be if the Offal Court herd could only peep in and see him in his grandeur.†   (source)
  • The rattling slam at the start of each of the five sumptuous meals could no longer be reckoned with, it happened no more; and now, somewhere terribly far away, Frau Chauchat was slamming doors—it was an expression of her character, intermingled and bound up with her existence and her illness, much as time was bound up with bodies in space.†   (source)
  • There he lay, paying full price, and what they brought him at this hour of fixed eternity was "midday soup," the six-course Berghof dinner in all its splendor, with nothing missing—a hearty meal six days a week, a sumptuous showpiece, a gala banquet, prepared by a trained European chef in the sanatorium's deluxe hotel kitchen.†   (source)
  • I fought out my long probation in the continental wars, tasting sumptuously of hard knocks, privation, and adventure; but in my last battle I was taken captive, and during the seven years that have waxed and waned since then, a foreign dungeon hath harboured me.†   (source)
  • It certainly was agreeable to fare sumptuously, drive in a fine carriage, wear her best frock every day, and do nothing but enjoy herself.†   (source)
  • It was one of those sumptuous but cold apartments known to Pierre only from the front approach, but even in this room there now stood an empty bath, and water had been spilled on the carpet.†   (source)
  • Men are naturally hunters and inquisitive of woodcraft and I suppose that such a gazetteer as wood-cutters and Indians should furnish facts for would take place in the most sumptuous drawing-rooms of all the "Wreaths" and "Flora's chaplets"[497] of the book-shops; yet ordinarily, whether we are too clumsy for so subtle a topic, or from whatever cause, as soon as men begin to write on nature, they fall into euphuism.†   (source)
  • Here seals and otters could indulge in a sumptuous meal, mixing meat from fish with vegetables from the sea, like the English with their Irish stews.†   (source)
  • A sumptuous man was the Farmer-General.†   (source)
  • When I entered the house, the first thing I beheld in the middle of Assunta's chamber was a cradle that might be called sumptuous compared with the rest of the furniture, and in it a baby seven or eight months old.†   (source)
  • "The queen who mended her stockings in prison," he thought, "must have looked then every inch a queen and even more a queen than at sumptuous banquets and levees."†   (source)
  • Osborne gave a sumptuous reward to the Sergeant when he parted with him, after having visited the scenes of his son's last exploits.†   (source)
  • I instructed the Marcos to keep quiet about this sumptuousness, so as to give me a chance to surprise the guests and show off a little.†   (source)
  • She wanted them to be sumptuous, and when he alone could not pay the expenses, she made up the deficit liberally, which happened pretty well every time.†   (source)
  • Sumptuousness and splendor.†   (source)
  • Porthos lived in an apartment, large in size and of very sumptuous appearance, in the Rue du Vieux-Colombier.†   (source)
  • She sank softly into a low chair, softly rustling her sumptuous black silk dress, and delicately nestling her milk-white neck and broad shoulders in a costly cashmere shawl.†   (source)
  • He coughed and continued,— "Master Olivier, the princes who reign over great lordships, like kings and emperors, should not allow sumptuousness in their houses; for the fire spreads thence through the province.†   (source)
  • Opposite to this royal gallery was another, elevated to the same height, on the western side of the lists; and more gaily, if less sumptuously decorated, than that destined for the Prince himself.†   (source)
  • It now answers the purpose of a sumptuous lodge for the doorkeeper of the straits of the Sound, before which every year there pass fifteen thousand ships of all nations.†   (source)
  • Such men are not satisfied with the pursuit of comfort; they require sumptuous depravity and splendid corruption.†   (source)
  • Let the King's Reader of Plays, backed by the Press, make an unwritten but perfectly well understood regulation that members of Mrs Warren's profession shall be tolerated on the stage only when they are beautiful, exquisitely dressed, and sumptuously lodged and fed; also that they shall, at the end of the play, die of consumption to the sympathetic tears of the whole audience, or step into the next room to commit suicide, or at least be turned out by their protectors and passed on to…†   (source)
  • The third circle with which Anna had ties was preeminently the fashionable world—the world of balls, of dinners, of sumptuous dresses, the world that hung on to the court with one hand, so as to avoid sinking to the level of the demi-monde.†   (source)
  • He had a patron who in a certain sumptuous way—an apologetic way, as if he constantly took an admiring audience to witness that he really could not help being more free with this old fellow than they might have expected, on account of his simplicity and poverty—was mightily good to him.†   (source)
  • By and by, when we had dined in a sumptuous manner off boiled dabs, melted butter, and potatoes, with a chop for me, a hairy man with a very good-natured face came home.†   (source)
  • Besides, there were fewer to feed; the sick could eat little; our breakfast-basins were better filled; when there was no time to prepare a regular dinner, which often happened, she would give us a large piece of cold pie, or a thick slice of bread and cheese, and this we carried away with us to the wood, where we each chose the spot we liked best, and dined sumptuously.†   (source)
  • Some Brahmins, clad in all the sumptuousness of Oriental apparel, and leading a woman who faltered at every step, followed.†   (source)
  • They dined together, sumptuously.†   (source)
  • In a quarter of an hour Monseigneur was ready, and sat down alone to his sumptuous and choice supper.†   (source)
  • A few miserable, greenish hovels, hanging over the water in front of these sumptuous Hôtels, did not prevent one from seeing the fine angles of their facades, their large, square windows with stone mullions, their pointed porches overloaded with statues, the vivid outlines of their walls, always clear cut, and all those charming accidents of architecture, which cause Gothic art to have the air of beginning its combinations afresh with every monument.†   (source)
  • John should find home a paradise, he should always see a smiling face, should fare sumptuously every day, and never know the loss of a button.†   (source)
  • It being that period of the forenoon when the various members of the family had coffee in their own chambers, some couple of hours before assembling at breakfast in a faded hall which had once been sumptuous, but was now the prey of watery vapours and a settled melancholy, Mrs General was accessible to the valet.†   (source)
  • The dinner, the dining room, the service, the waiting at table, the wine, and the food, were not simply in keeping with the general tone of modern luxury throughout all the house, but seemed even more sumptuous and modern.†   (source)
  • The only thing I recollect is that I awoke in bed in a round chamber, the furniture of which was sumptuous, and into which light only penetrated by an opening in the ceiling.†   (source)
  • Not those of the bevy of buxom lasses, with their luxurious display of red and white; but the ample charms of a genuine Dutch country tea-table, in the sumptuous time of autumn.†   (source)
  • Numbers of splendid turtles often came ashore to deposit their eggs in the sand, and their delicious flesh afforded us many a sumptuous meal.†   (source)
  • A fine, sumptuous country cottage in the English taste overgrown with fragrant flowers, with flower beds going round the house; the porch, wreathed in climbers, was surrounded with beds of roses.†   (source)
  • And he told stories, tracing with a finger in the dust, of the immense and sumptuous ritual of avalanche-guarded cathedrals; of processions and devil-dances; of the changing of monks and nuns into swine; of holy cities fifteen thousand feet in the air; of intrigue between monastery and monastery; of voices among the hills, and of that mysterious mirage that dances on dry snow.†   (source)
  • The furniture was of mahogany, covered with leather, in the old-fashioned style of 1820; the floor was not even stained, but everything was shining with cleanliness, and there were many choice flowers in the windows; the most sumptuous thing in the room at the moment was, of course, the beautifully decorated table.†   (source)
  • …MOUCHOIR to her exquisite, but thoughtfully-chiselled nose, the door of the BOUDOIR (artfully concealed by rich hangings of silken damask, the hue of Italy's firmament) was thrown open, and with noiseless tread two VALETS-DE-CHAMBRE, clad in sumptuous liveries of peach-blossom and gold, advanced into the room followed by a page in BAS DE SOIE—silk stockings—who, while they remained at some distance making the most graceful obeisances, advanced to the feet of his lovely mistress, and…†   (source)
  • The room was whitewashed, as is the custom in prisons, but it looked quite brilliant to a prisoner, though a stove, a bed, a chair, and a table formed the whole of its sumptuous furniture.†   (source)
  • The Abbot, himself of ancient Saxon descent, received the noble Saxons with the profuse and exuberant hospitality of their nation, wherein they indulged to a late, or rather an early hour; nor did they take leave of their reverend host the next morning until they had shared with him a sumptuous refection.†   (source)
  • For, though Julia has a stately house, and mighty company, and sumptuous dinners every day, I see no green growth near her; nothing that can ever come to fruit or flower.†   (source)
  • Am I right in my conjecture that Mr. Osborne entertained a society of chosen spirits round his sumptuous board last night?†   (source)
  • He rose at thirteen minutes to one, and directed his steps towards the large hall, a sumptuous apartment adorned with lavishly-framed paintings.†   (source)
  • The rarest dishes, sumptuously cooked and sumptuously served; the choicest fruits; the most exquisite wines; marvels of workmanship in gold and silver, china and glass; innumerable things delicious to the senses of taste, smell, and sight, were insinuated into its composition.†   (source)
  • " Having delivered himself of this pompous address, uttered with a degree of energy that left the baron almost out of breath, he bowed to the assembled party and withdrew to his drawing-room, whose sumptuous furnishings of white and gold had caused a great sensation in the Chaussee d'Antin.†   (source)
  • I can understand a lunch with Lafitte is all very pleasant, but don't you dislike just that very sumptuousness?†   (source)
  • …out; what do you think of his coming here and sitting down in that very chair, and crying like a child because he was so glad to see me—what do you think of his insisting on taking me down all the way into the country to his own house (quite a sumptuous place, Mr Noggs, with a large garden and I don't know how many fields, and a man in livery waiting at table, and cows and horses and pigs and I don't know what besides), and making me stay a whole month, and pressing me to stop there…†   (source)
  • He described it as an apartment of the most sumptuous nature, and said that he had drunk brown East India sherry there, of a quality so precious as to make a man wink.†   (source)
  • But he was never to be found at home; he never invited anybody to go up with him, and no one could form an idea of what his sumptuous apartment contained in the shape of real riches.†   (source)
  • Within the first week of my passion, I bought four sumptuous waistcoats — not for myself; I had no pride in them; for Dora — and took to wearing straw-coloured kid gloves in the streets, and laid the foundations of all the corns I have ever had.†   (source)
  • The purchases made, they returned to the hotel, where they dined at a sumptuously served table-d'hote; after which Aouda, shaking hands with her protector after the English fashion, retired to her room for rest.†   (source)
  • I was told by Dr. Pestler (now a most flourishing lady's physician, with a sumptuous dark green carriage, a prospect of speedy knighthood, and a house in Manchester Square) that her grief at weaning the child was a sight that would have unmanned a Herod.†   (source)
  • All she had seen in entering the house and walking through it, and all she saw now in her room, gave her an impression of wealth and sumptuousness and of that modern European luxury of which she had only read in English novels, but had never seen in Russia and in the country.†   (source)
  • Her hotel was remarkably sumptuous, and while the most part of the English had quit, or were about to quit, France on account of the war, Milady had just been laying out much money upon her residence; which proved that the general measure which drove the English from France did not affect her.†   (source)
  • They rattled on through the noisy, bustling, crowded street of London, now displaying long double rows of brightly-burning lamps, dotted here and there with the chemists' glaring lights, and illuminated besides with the brilliant flood that streamed from the windows of the shops, where sparkling jewellery, silks and velvets of the richest colours, the most inviting delicacies, and most sumptuous articles of luxurious ornament, succeeded each other in rich and glittering profusion.†   (source)
  • …scalloped collar, that in such a maidenly fashion hid her long neck at the sides and only showed it in front, her strikingly slender figure, and it seemed to him that she looked better than ever—not because these flowers, this veil, this gown from Paris added anything to her beauty; but because, in spite of the elaborate sumptuousness of her attire, the expression of her sweet face, of her eyes, of her lips was still her own characteristic expression of guileless truthfulness.†   (source)
  • The Captain, the surgeon, and one or two passengers came and dined with our two gentlemen at the inn, Jos exerting himself in a sumptuous way in ordering the dinner and promising to go to town the next day with the Major.†   (source)
  • The veteran colonel, Sir Michael O'Dowd, K.C.B., with his lady and sister, landed here yesterday, with Captains Posky, Stubble, Macraw, Malony; Lieutenants Smith, Jones, Thompson, F. Thomson; Ensigns Hicks and Grady; the band on the pier playing the national anthem, and the crowd loudly cheering the gallant veterans as they went into Wayte's hotel, where a sumptuous banquet was provided for the defenders of Old England.†   (source)
  • …was welcomed by great people; and from the fine dinner parties to fine assemblies, whither the same people came with whom she had been dining, whom she had met the night before, and would see on the morrow—the young men faultlessly appointed, handsomely cravatted, with the neatest glossy boots and white gloves—the elders portly, brass-buttoned, noble-looking, polite, and prosy—the young ladies blonde, timid, and in pink—the mothers grand, beautiful, sumptuous, solemn, and in diamonds.†   (source)
  • Areithoos, the mace-wielder, so called by fighting men and by their sumptuous women for using neither bow nor spear: he swung an iron mace to break through ranks in battle.†   (source)
  • In these lands are men who own great flocks and herds; now as his liegemen, they will pay tithes and sumptuous honor to him, prospering as they carry out his plans.†   (source)
  • In these lands are men who own great flocks and herds; now as your liegemen, they will pay tithes and sumptuous honor to you, prospering as they carry out your plans.†   (source)
  • …Artacia,
    where the local people came to fill their pails.
    My shipmates clustered round her, asking questions:
    who was king of the realm? who ruled the natives here?
    She waved at once to her father's high-roofed halls.
    They entered the sumptuous palace, found his wife inside—
    a woman huge as a mountain crag who filled them all with horror.
    Straightaway she summoned royal Antiphates from assembly,
    her husband, who prepared my crew a barbarous welcome.
    Snatching one of my men, he…†   (source)
  • …flat on his back he went, groaning in the dust.
    The suitors broke into uproar through the shadowed halls,
    glancing at one another, trading angry outcries:
    "Would to god this drifter had dropped dead—"
    "Anywhere else before he landed here!"
    "Then he'd never have loosed such pandemonium."
    "Now we're squabbling over beggars!"

    "No more joy
    in the sumptuous feast …."
    "Now riot rules the day!"
    But now Prince Telemachus dressed them down:
    "Fools, you're out of your minds!†   (source)
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