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  • A luxurious Oldsmobile the next.†   (source)
  • And then, almost luxuriously, I stretched my arms high above my head.†   (source)
  • Their host swept an arm across the luxurious salon.†   (source)
  • I dimmed the lights, crawled up on top of the luxurious blankets, and stared at my jar.†   (source)
  • There was a silence in which Crookshanks stretched luxuriously flexing his claws.†   (source)
  • Shining, luxurious epaulettes draping from each of her shoulders.†   (source)
  • They think I've lived a luxurious life with lots of servants and breakfast in bed.†   (source)
  • The cramped conditions were luxurious by Jiuquan standards.†   (source)
  • The kitten stretched luxuriously, and looked up at her with huge, innocent eyes.†   (source)
  • Underneath the picture someone had writ with a black fountain pen, "One Night Only in Flint, Michigan, at the Luxurious Fifty Grand on Saturday June 16, 1932.†   (source)
  • Even the comfort I had felt in Ty's and my privacy as we were driving in the dark seemed fugitive, luxurious.†   (source)
  • He and his family were vacationing at the luxurious Engleside Hotel.†   (source)
  • We fill the basket and pass it around, taking deep gulps and, later, luxuriously, splashing our faces clean.†   (source)
  • The main thoroughfare, it ran the entire length of the ship, from the control car, the officer quarters, and the luxurious passenger decks near the bow all the way back to the cargo bays and crew quarters in the stern.†   (source)
  • He hung up his black beetle-colored helmet and shined it; he hung his flameproof jacket neatly; he showered luxuriously, and then, whistling, hands in pockets, walked across the upper floor of the fire station and fell down the hole.†   (source)
  • It is excellent proof of his luxurious lifestyle," she said excitedly, and the whole box was carried away.†   (source)
  • He lives in a sprawling apartment in a luxurious building on Manhattan's Upper East Side.†   (source)
  • In the spring of the year after I became his mistress, the Chairman purchased a luxurious house in the northeast of Kyoto and named it Eishin-an—"Prosperous Truth Retreat."†   (source)
  • The apartment itself is small but luxurious, with built-in mahogany bookcases rising to the ceiling and dark, oily, wide-planked floors.†   (source)
  • Her face looked quite odd framed with luxurious black hair, but it wasn't nearly as peculiar as her body.†   (source)
  • I spent the intervening days catching up on my sleep, working in Kilvin's shop, and enjoying my new, luxurious accommodations at the Horse and Four.†   (source)
  • I noticed one woman with long, luxurious black hair, embracing cinnamon-colored skin, who danced as if she were outside by herself, in the rain or beneath a starry sky, just for me.†   (source)
  • Immediately a small tree broke through the earth and began unbending itself from the spot, young and luxurious and stunning, growing and maturing until it burst into blossom and bloom.†   (source)
  • In art, a painting could depict an extremely luxurious lifestyle, with a little skull painted in one corner.†   (source)
  • We were paraded across stages before adoring audiences, chauffeured about in limousines, and treated like royalty at luxurious hotels.†   (source)
  • Their living standard was much higher than ours: we considered their three-room apartment very luxurious.†   (source)
  • A sea of Jewish misery washed around the small islands of relative prosperity represented by the Jewish intelligentsia and the luxurious life of the speculators.†   (source)
  • I'm sitting in the leather armchair that we bought from Heal's just after we got married it was the first piece of furniture we got as a married couple: soft tan buttery leather, expensive, luxurious.†   (source)
  • Still, thinking it, and thinking of my luxurious room and expensive, beautiful clothes, gave me a twinge of guilt.†   (source)
  • For all her rebellion and free spirit, she had never been outside the luxurious confines of Heart Palace.†   (source)
  • Sarafine spread her powerful hands wide, luxuriously, flexing her powers.†   (source)
  • The mansion itself has been converted to twelve comfortable rooms of various sizes, all quite luxurious, with two full baths on each floor.†   (source)
  • I'd been asleep for so long, I decided to indulge myself in a luxurious and prolonged pee.†   (source)
  • The surrounding building had commercial offices, an immense banquet hall, and a hotel with four hundred luxurious rooms.†   (source)
  • Still luxurious, though, and more graceful than the rest.†   (source)
  • Our life there was both luxurious and primitive.†   (source)
  • It had once, clearly, been a graceful and luxurious hotel.†   (source)
  • The student housing was luxurious, the rooms more like suites.†   (source)
  • As soon as he found out about the agreement Mr. Brown hitched his luxurious glassed-in coach to the train and disappeared from Macondo along with the more prominent representatives of his company.†   (source)
  • Martin Vanger had money, and his home was both luxurious and functional.†   (source)
  • The seat of the automobile was luxurious leather, and a delicate glass vase was mounted at the front, filled with fragrant roses.†   (source)
  • My mam later said spitefully that these were cheap costume jewelry from a Galway five-and-dime, but at the time they seemed impossibly luxurious to me.†   (source)
  • And when Mrs. Bannister held the cup to my lips, I fanned the hot milk out on my tongue as it went down, tasting it luxuriously, the way a baby tastes its mother.†   (source)
  • It was such a luxurious weapon, Eragon wondered how anyone dared use it.†   (source)
  • After the scratchy wool of my sock, the silk feels cool in my hand, luxurious, like water.†   (source)
  • Finally, beret in hand, he had stepped timidly across the threshold and entered the luxurious dining room, with its teardrop chandeliers and stylish furniture, convinced that everyone was staring at him, that their thousand eyes found his suit too tight and his shoes old.†   (source)
  • Therefore, his sorrow, now that he was helpless, luxuriously stretched and reached.†   (source)
  • His hair was longer, thick and luxurious despite the gray, and he seemed satisfied, settled.†   (source)
  • The Rose Garden Hotel, while hardly luxurious, is certainly homely and comfortable, and one cannot begrudge the extra expense of accommodating oneself here.†   (source)
  • Vee expelled a luxurious sigh.†   (source)
  • In December, I was moved to the Constantiaberge Clinic, a luxurious facility near Pollsmoor that had never had a black patient before.†   (source)
  • she showered, lingering under the spray and enjoying the luxurious feeling of shampoo and soap rinsing the salt from her body after a day in the sun.†   (source)
  • The love of them—the touch, taste, and feel of them—was not just an easy luxurious human vice; they were, for me, A Thing To Do Instead.†   (source)
  • It was such an understatement—that luxurious car made me feel so inadequate and it made my blood boil.†   (source)
  • Dick dropped the binoculars into a leather case, a luxurious receptacle initialed H.W.C. He was annoyed.†   (source)
  • Our bodies feel like luxurious sighs as we stand in the great hall, completely invisible.†   (source)
  • Reunited with Nora in our luxurious room, I felt shy with her in this unfamiliar setting.†   (source)
  • They looped arms and took a long, luxurious sip from the crystal glasses.†   (source)
  • Pros Passmore leaned back in his chair, digesting this new bit of information luxuriously.†   (source)
  • She was the only woman I had ever met in Iran who owned one of those luxurious contraptions called a clothes dryer.†   (source)
  • Max trotted up ahead of his father and gazed down at the piers, where a luxurious-looking yacht was moored at a. dock piled high with baggage.†   (source)
  • Dark and windowless, surrounded on all sides by brick walls eight feet thick, the chambers that the kinghad made his own were large and luxurious within.†   (source)
  • The banquet took place in what seemed like a vip safe house, a small, luxurious private hotel tucked into a corner of a vast, gray concrete apartment and shopping complex still under construction, a part of Tomsk called, for some strange reason, Paris.†   (source)
  • Thanks to Orr, his roommate, it was the most luxurious tent in the squadron.†   (source)
  • The poorest went on living in burrows of the most primitive kind, mere holes indeed, with only one window or none; while the well-to-do still constructed more luxurious versions of the simple diggings of old.†   (source)
  • She was wearing her prom dress—a luxurious, white, frilly thing.†   (source)
  • Jean Louise stretched luxuriously and yawned, delighted with her existence.†   (source)
  • Then retreating to a luxurious hotel called the Sheraton Grande Sukhumvit where he and Kara had taken a suite, walked the streets, and finally collapsed into bed, groggy with jet lag.†   (source)
  • And to be honest, they were grateful for the respite and sustenance, stretching luxuriously on the cushions and drinking a large quantity of tea.†   (source)
  • It would make for a luxuriously long ending to his hunt for the boy, and he would take his time with every stroke of his blade.†   (source)
  • He relished all that Paris offered in the way of luxurious shopping, architecture, painting, music, theater, the finest food, the best wine, and the most cultivated society in his experience—never mind what he may have written about cities or the expenses he incurred.†   (source)
  • As hot as the air was against my skin, it was still a luxurious feeling.†   (source)
  • Here we are aboard the Ocean Star, a luxurious steamer bound for Tahiti, in a presidential stateroom fit for a king and queen (three rooms and a full bath with WC).†   (source)
  • How he must have envied Carlos; how he must have been jealous of the faster, brighter, more luxurious world of Europe.†   (source)
  • I never thought a hot shower and hair wash could be so luxurious.†   (source)
  • She was as rumpled as Lee was tidy but seemed oddly suited to the luxurious pile of pillows around her.†   (source)
  • The huge blanket of fur made her look like a child bundled for a snowstorm; the luxurious texture transformed the innocence of the awkward bundle into the elegance of a perversely intentional contrast: into a look of stressed sensuality.†   (source)
  • We have now seen him for what he is: that is, a most proud, bloody, luxurious, cruel, and selfpleasing tryant.†   (source)
  • Pandora rose, brushed her hands meticulously down her black skin suit, sniffed, tossed her luxurious mane of flame-colored hair, then aimed a frigid glare with heavily lashed emerald eyes.†   (source)
  • Its residents lived in conditions that made Colonias Fundidora and Acero seem luxurious by comparison.†   (source)
  • This was the largest and most luxurious building in all of Ten-Towns, with a columned front and bas-relief artwork adorning all of its walls.†   (source)
  • Kwang himself exhibited a different grace: he didn't sport the brief choppy step of our number, but seemed instead to stride in luxurious borrowed lengths.†   (source)
  • It was insanely luxurious to have a room in which to sleep in private, to have space and silence, and to be covered in a warm navy-blue silk robe.†   (source)
  • Sitting in their room on this very special night, no matter how luxurious the accommodations, would be a waste.†   (source)
  • Time stretched itself like a cat waking from a long nap, luxurious and patient.†   (source)
  • And the northerners might be tempted to invade and exploit their luxurious and more delicate southern neighbors.†   (source)
  • Her face was heart shaped, her chin small, her lips luxurious and pink.†   (source)
  • The house the Whitshanks rented every summer stood right on the beach—a comparatively uncrowded stretch of the Delaware coast—but it wasn't what you'd call luxurious.†   (source)
  • The four barracks and all the main academic buildings on campus faced inward toward the parade ground, a vast luxurious greensward trimmed like the fairway of an exclusive golf course.†   (source)
  • Kiever's flat was luxurious and expensive, but its contents somehow gave the impression of having been hastily assembled.†   (source)
  • How it was possible to have built those things up there was beyond my comprehension, but there they were—luxurious villas built in trees.†   (source)
  • Before I started my tour, I had known that at intervals of every few days I would have to stop at auto courts or motels, not so much to sleep but for the sake of hot, luxurious bathing.†   (source)
  • She began to giggle, for he had gone into a very low-key comedy routine, his accent all of a sudden profoundly and luxuriously Yiddish as he catalogued the bottles and cans and cardboard cartons pouring forth from the bag, his face furrowed in a perfect replica of some elderly harassed, purblind, nervously parsimonious Flatbush storekeeper.†   (source)
  • There was not one of his direct subordinates who did not possess much more luxurious quarters, but this place was ample for Stormgren's needs.†   (source)
  • She walked slowly through the house with him, nodding with distant politeness when he praised the view of the garden from the second floor, admired the luxurious carpet (he felt like a peasant beside her, his bulging briefcase an old sack of beets).†   (source)
  • We had a luxurious breakfast and were cheerful, each with his secret thoughts.†   (source)
  • One was a luxurious, greedily repetitive riokh-tiokh-tiokh, in response to which the vegetation, all covered with dew, trembled with delight.†   (source)
  • But she loved to do more luxurious errands for others, and even when there were no such errands, she would examine a rich variety of merchandise she had no intention of buying, always skillful, in these examinations, never to disturb a clerk, and never to leave disturbed anything that she touched, imposing her weak eyes as intently as a jeweler with his glass and emitting little expletives of irony or admiration.†   (source)
  • He looks quaintly secretive and prepared for anything, out walking very luxuriously on Catherine Street.†   (source)
  • Which is why a sudden craving for nature overtook a prominent lawyer in the midst of delicate contractual negotiations in one of Spaceland's luxurious conference rooms.†   (source)
  • He liked to see her at night, sitting peacefully with her hands folded, on the sofa, cuddling herself luxuriously inside her sweater, shivering cheerfully with the cold.†   (source)
  • Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities   (source)
  • That was the first Mike Bowman had heard about the excellent and inexpensive plastic surgery available in Costa Rica, and all the luxurious private clinics in San Jose.†   (source)
  • Compared to the other dorms, this structure seemed luxurious.†   (source)
  • There is even a moss called Sif's hair, named after my luxurious golden locks.†   (source)
  • Moreover, his wife has become accustomed to a luxurious way of life.†   (source)
  • To Anatole and me they seemed absurdly luxurious.†   (source)
  • Oh Grace, she said, that feels most luxurious, you have a good touch; and I was flattered.†   (source)
  • She waited a few minutes and then led him up a winding marble staircase to a luxurious hallway.†   (source)
  • And have a luxurious head of pampered yellow hair.†   (source)
  • So I decided to ignore Ambrose and enjoy my new luxurious lifestyle at the Horse and Four.†   (source)
  • The new colours were pearly, pale — the colours of luxurious indifference, of cool detachment.†   (source)
  • This was luxurious compared to the temporary classroom!†   (source)
  • The walls were dark, paneled in teak, and the fittings were all luxurious blue silk.†   (source)
  • Mamaw Blanton's house was my favorite place in the world, though it was neither large nor luxurious.†   (source)
  • Who knows if you can stomach the luxurious life in Beijing.†   (source)
  • The Queen stretched her legs out luxuriously.†   (source)
  • The chair was modern-looking and luxurious, unlike anything else in the abandoned bank.†   (source)
  • Twenty minutes later, Max sat in a luxurious compartment on a private train for public officials.†   (source)
  • The same window that had to be the bedroom of the luxurious pink cottage.†   (source)
  • Dawson could feel the smooth, almost luxurious, silkiness of her hair.†   (source)
  • From behind the door comes the indistinct murmur of voices, of laughter, exclusive and luxurious.†   (source)
  • We left through a tastefully luxurious lobby.†   (source)
  • The lobby was luxurious—modern—but the rooms she peeped into were sterile green cages.†   (source)
  • Stripping, he donned one of the luxurious tunics, savoring its downy texture.†   (source)
  • It was an erotic room, a luxurious sanctuary in the midst of debris.†   (source)
  • He sank into the chair facing mine and stretched his legs out luxuriously.†   (source)
  • 'Caro,' she murmured hoarsely as though from the depths of a tranquil and luxurious trance.†   (source)
  • The mansion and its gardens were as rich and luxurious as anything Max might wish.†   (source)
  • But from the boys' perspective, it was luxurious.†   (source)
  • Impossibly soft, unreasonably luxurious as it heated on hers.†   (source)
  • You'll enjoy a rich, rewarding, luxurious, privileged existence.†   (source)
  • They were hardly luxurious, but they had a roof, and a roof in the rain counted for much.†   (source)
  • Each touch was a separate pleasure, each kiss a luxurious taste.†   (source)
  • 'But that was when I had only fifty-eight missions,' he explained, puffing on his cigar luxuriously.†   (source)
  • Then she stretched her arms over her head and strained her body in a luxurious yawn.†   (source)
  • The muscles of his face grouped themselves in hideous luxuriousness, rippled once, then all cleared.†   (source)
  • But the sigh that filled the room was the girl's own, luxuriously uncontained.†   (source)
  • I ached to put on one of the luxurious pants that Maxon had given me for Saturday use, but this seemed like a bad time for that.†   (source)
  • Luxurious.†   (source)
  • It's good Dad can get us these again," said Ron appreciatively, stretching luxuriously as the car moved smoothly away from the Burrow, Bill and Fleur waving from the kitchen window.†   (source)
  • Langdon gathered his things, thanked the pilots, and stepped out of the jet's luxurious interior onto the foldout staircase.†   (source)
  • The air is cool and fresh, the scent of crushed leaves luxurious after the dank, decaying smell of the gatehouse.†   (source)
  • I have secured rooms in the residence of a Major C. D. Humphrey, which although not luxurious, will be commodious enough for my purposes.†   (source)
  • The agents fanned out across the first floor, their laser sights probing the darkness of the luxurious house.†   (source)
  • Her place already was luxurious, with a bowling alley where the pins were bottles of chilled champagne, but now she resolved to increase the number of bedrooms and double her staff.†   (source)
  • And while Mom was in an apron and Gerad was in his pajamas, I was dressed for dinner at the palace: hair up, sapphires on my ears, and layers of luxurious fabrics draping to my heeled shoes.†   (source)
  • She turned sideways in the seat, pulling her knees up and leaning back against the door as if she were sinking into a luxurious sofa.†   (source)
  • The straw bales felt luxurious, the pillow soft as a cloud, and for the first night in a long time, there were no dreams.†   (source)
  • Most of the staircases leading upstairs were gone; not rotted but deliberately chopped away, reduced to stacks of kindling shoved against walls, bits of once-luxurious Persian carpet clinging to them like blossoms of furry mold.†   (source)
  • It was they who were helpless, they who would soon have to stammer apologies in their silly accents and hop around on one foot in their luxurious hotel rooms, trapped in their own pant legs with their bums sticking out, smooth bums and hairy bums, bums of different sizes and colours, while Uncle En berated them.†   (source)
  • We changed into our cotton gowns and made our way along a succession of covered walkways, leading through the dense foliage to a luxurious hot-springs pool at the other end of the inn.†   (source)
  • Now every citizen was guaranteed enough to eat, but the rations were not luxurious, and often as not were unappealing.†   (source)
  • They insisted that the chairman of the Jewish Council should hold a luxurious reception and invite all the prominent people in the ghetto, and they filmed this reception too.†   (source)
  • He walked along the shore of the sound, past Cecilia Vanger's property and the luxurious motorboat below Martin Vanger's villa.†   (source)
  • One mile away, the hulking albino named Silas limped through the front gate of the luxurious brownstone residence on Rue La Bruyère.†   (source)
  • Those scenes were always skilfully lit, the gestures — his included — languid and graceful, with a kind of luxurious quivering, as in the death scenes at the ballet.†   (source)
  • Two lives began to go on side by side: an official, fictional life based on rules which forced people to work from dawn to dusk, almost without eating, and a second, unofficial life, full of fairy-tale opportunities to make a profit, with a flourishing trade in dollars, diamonds, flour, leather or even forged papers — a life lived under constant threat of the death penalty, but spent cheerfully in luxurious restaurants to which people drove in 'rickshaws'.†   (source)
  • The Queen was the largest and most luxurious ocean liner ever built, or that's what was written in all the brochures.†   (source)
  • My beloved was interrogated to the tune of a broken rib, taken to Léopoldville, and imprisoned in the rat-infested courtyard of what was once a luxurious embassy.†   (source)
  • At least half a dozen people, for instance, had come to grief in Joe's most recent real estate development deal—the conversion of an office building into a luxurious apartment house: the Lafayette.†   (source)
  • It was an expensive one, just off the main concourse, an incredibly luxurious five meters square, a floor of what might almost have been real wood, dark-blue walls.†   (source)
  • And while my suite of rooms at the Horse and Four had been luxurious, my tiny room at Anker's was comfortable.†   (source)
  • High above, like some sort of modern shrine to a bygone hero, an enormous neon sign blinked on the roof of a luxurious hotel.†   (source)
  • Along with assorted friends and family members—for a total of forty travelers—they had piled into a luxurious sleeper car, named Benares, provided by the Chicago & Alton Railroad.†   (source)
  • It was my first visit to anyplace so luxurious, and I was quite overwhelmed by what I saw; because if you think of the attention to detail brought to bear in making a kimono, well, that same sort of attention had been brought to the design and care of the entire estate where the Baron lived.†   (source)
  • We're going to make it, Sophie thought as she swung the SmartCar's wheel to the right, cutting sharply past the luxurious Hôtel de Crillon into Paris's tree-lined diplomatic neighborhood.†   (source)
  • From me she had learned the value of money, but from Lestat she had inherited a passion for spending it; and she wasn't to leave without the most luxurious black coach we could manage, outfitted with leather seats that might have accommodated a band of travelers, let alone a man and a child who used the magnificent compartment only for the transportation of an ornately carved oak chest.†   (source)
  • Bribed police guards simply turned a blind eye at agreed times, and then whole columns of carts would drive through the ghetto gate right under their noses and with their tacit agreement, carrying food, expensive liquor, the most luxurious of delicacies, tobacco straight from Greece, French fancy goods and cosmetics.†   (source)
  • And romantic stories: how Potter Palmer had been so in love with his wife, Bertha, that he had given her a luxurious hotel, the Palmer House, as a wedding present.†   (source)
  • Six or seven times larger than even the most luxurious of office spaces, the knight's cabinet de travail resembled an ungainly hybrid of science laboratory, archival library, and indoor flea market.†   (source)
  • All the yellowing paper evidence of that luxurious, ambitious, relentless vanished life, which Miss Violence pored over inch by inch, as if remembering it, smiling with gentle vicarious pleasure.†   (source)
  • And yet I made no move to return to the Hotel Saint-Gabriel, which seemed a very secure and airy place to me now, a place of subtle and luxurious mortal consolation where I might lie in a chair of puce velvet, put one foot on an ottoman and watch the fire lick the marble tile, looking for all the world to myself in the long mirrors like a thoughtful human.†   (source)
  • Who couldn't stomach a luxurious life!†   (source)
  • The lodgings surrounding it were some of them luxurious, but many were smaller and less comfortable than the one I'd rented in the village where I'd found Seivarden, though a bit more expensive.†   (source)
  • You saw, too, the latest conceits in accessories: charming little hand bags; billowing evening capes of which there were many smart versions to accent colour schemes; luxurious wraps and capelets in fur.†   (source)
  • As he and Fache drew nearer the alcove, Langdon peered down a short hallway, into Saunière's luxurious study—warm wood, Old Master paintings, and an enormous antique desk on which stood a two-foot-tall model of a knight in full armor.†   (source)
  • Ben showed us around and led us upstairs to our bedroom, which had two single beds in it, a small walk-in closet and the same luxurious carpet as downstairs.†   (source)
  • I settled before his canvas, weak, at peace, gazing down at him, at his vague, graying eyes, my own hands florid, my skin so luxuriously warm.†   (source)
  • They know them by touch, and often sit on them, smoking the dream-inducing fring weed and running their fingers over the patterns, over the luxurious colours, remembering what these colours looked like when they could see.†   (source)
  • The Snilfards dressed luxuriously and were connoisseurs of music, and played on various instruments to display their taste and skill.†   (source)
  • The topmost floor, the fifty-seventh, contained the most luxurious apartment of all: the Metropole penthouse, a masterpiece of sleek black-and-white design.†   (source)
  • He should have looked out of place in her kitchen, she mused, in his expensive, meticulously tailored linen shirt and with the luxurious mane of hair swept back from that remarkable face.†   (source)
  • The first thing Florentino Ariza observed in the living room was that the door to the only bedroom was open, and that the bed was huge and luxurious with a brocaded quilt and a headboard with brass foliage.†   (source)
  • Nigel hurried down the hall as Max, David, and Connor looked down into a sunken room that appeared to be the captain's quarters of a luxurious galleon.†   (source)
  • The warm water was luxurious.†   (source)
  • Their vehicle was a streamlined "palace" horse van painted in Howard crimson and white and featuring two musical horns, eight headlights, fourteen cigar lighters, and a luxurious stall with kapok-stuffed walls.†   (source)
  • Reaching for her wine, she slipped into the water, feeling luxurious despite her modest surroundings.†   (source)
  • Even if I succeeded, there was no guarantee I'd be allowed to go back to my luxurious life as a homeless kid.†   (source)
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