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Sometimes she brings him cigarettes, handfuls of them — largesse, opulence.† (source)
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We passed grain cellars, storage rooms lined with rows of pithoi, the great ceramic jars that held the palace's largesse of oil and wine and barley.† (source)
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I could never understand why our lives felt like a struggle while those living off of government largesse enjoyed trinkets that I only dreamed about.† (source)
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A lady's largesse.† (source)
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"And the manager puts no strings on his largess," Grady went on.† (source)
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This largess moved my mother-tea, an act of humility.† (source)
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He greeted him like a patron with a long history of dispensing largess.† (source)
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He hoped that in the morning, when word of his largesse had spread, not a soul in the hotel would be hesitant to provide him the answer to any question he might pose.† (source)
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And this desire of his was unquestionably enhanced by all he had read and visioned, by the romantic halo that his school history cast over the section, by the whole fantastic distortion of that period where people were said to live in "mansions," and slavery was a benevolent institution, conducted to a constant banjo-strumming, the strewn largesses of the colonel and the shuffle-dance of his happy dependents, where all women were pure, gentle, and beautiful, all men chivalrous and brave, and the Rebel horde a company of swagger, death-mocking cavaliers.† (source)
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It was weird to be living in such sudden largess, especially after the yellow house.† (source)
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The Garcias could not afford extras, and they did not want to put their hosts in the embarrassing position of having to spend money out of largesse.† (source)
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She began to perceive that Edward was extravagant in his largesses.† (source)
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34 THANKSGIVING It was actually all Sergeant Knight's fault that Yossarian busted Nately in the nose on Thanksgiving Day, after everyone in the squadron had given humble thanks to Milo for providing the fantastically opulent meal on which the officers and enlisted men had gorged themselves insatiably all afternoon and for dispensing like inexhaustible largess the unopened bottles of cheap whiskey he handed out unsparingly to every man who asked.† (source)
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You may believe you can show largesse to these creatures, befriend them, join with them, but you are deceived.† (source)
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The revenues of the monastery, of which a large part was at his disposal, while they gave him the means of supplying his own very considerable expenses, afforded also those largesses which he bestowed among the peasantry, and with which he frequently relieved the distresses of the oppressed.† (source)
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Moody seemed content to live off the largess of his family.† (source)
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