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We marched into Zermatt the next day, and were received with the most lavish honors and applause. [5]
In the morning, when the nurse opened the blinds, that sunlight swept radiantly into the room, lavish with its caresses; always spending, always giving, the symbol of a loving care that had been poured out on her, unasked and unsought. [9]
Twenty-Five Dollars a week--it looked like bloated luxury--a fortune a sinful and lavish waste of money. [5]
In fact, he was in a sense too lavish, for he used at one time to bring her home presents of silks and clothes and toilet things and stockings and hats, which were not in accord with her taste, and only vexed her. [11]
Thus the Imperial visit swallowed up millions, and Hadrian, who enquired into every detail and contrived to obtain information as to the sums expended by the city, blamed the recklessness of his lavish entertainers. [10]
To be able to lavish everything upon the most beloved of mortals, and do whatever her warm, ever-helpful heart prompted, seemed to her a special favour of the gods in whom she believed. [10]
Only Nancy's luxury, though lavish, was never vulgar, and her house when completed had rather marvellously the fine distinction of some old London mansion filled with the best that generations could contribute. [9]
In former times they had been lavish in their finery, and even now earrings still gleamed and color broke out irrepressibly. [9]
What has caused the sorrows that bespeak better and happier days, to those lavish out such heaps of misery? [5]
And even when the scholar is lavish of his knowledge in helping an ignorant world, he may find that if he has made his studies as a pursuit of happiness he has missed his object. [4]
In spite of taxes to make the hair of an American turn grey, in spite of lavish charities, the wealthy classes still seem wealthy--if the expression may be allowed. [9]
A still more striking spectacle was afforded by a voyage made on the Enz by the ladies of the Czarina's court, attired in airy summer dresses and adorned with a lavish abundance of flowers. [10]
Besides, he had spoken to her, listened to her reply, and even given her money with lavish generosity. [10]
Still, and in spite of the lavish demonstrations of more than motherly affection which the widow showered her daughter-in-law, Dada felt a stranger, and ill at ease in the great house in the Canopic way. [10]
She threw golden solidi of love into Geta's lap in lavish abundance. [10]
The thrifty goddess promises to be lavish to me through you. [10]
The storm had passed away and the rain had ceased; the sky was clear and cloudless, and the moon poured its silvery light in lavish splendor, as though revived, on the temple and on the statues round the square. [10]
This gentleman was of those who arrive in Newport upside down; and was even now, with the somewhat doubtful assistance of his wife, making lavish and pathetic attempts to right himself. [9]
We were lavish of recognition of the service he was doing us, but we revealed nothing more than that we were friendless strangers from a far country. [5]
The lion's share of his gains he loaned to broken gamblers, without expectation of return, gave to starving artists, or flung with lavish hand to beggars. [10]
She loved it now, as though she felt it quickening within her, she wanted it, to lavish on it all of a starved affection. [9]
Only he could not refrain from entreating him not to burn his fingers with the dice, and, to confirm it, added that luck in gambling was apt to be scanty where fortune was so lavish in the gifts of love. [10]
The trouble was, not how to get it,--but how to spend it, how to lavish it, get rid of it, squander it. [5]
The senate had not been idle and had done all in their power to surround it with magnificence and to enable as many as possible to enjoy the pageant, which had been planned with a lavish hand and liberal munificence. [10]
Thus Nemesis thanks me for the lavish gifts I have bestowed upon her? [10]
They are not lavish with such praise in Coimbra. [10]
Again she reaped lavish praise, but several times she met Appenzelder's well-founded criticisms with opposition. [10]
And all the lavish humor!--what is become of it? [5]
But after the latter had risen to a high place in Antony's favour, and been loaded with gold by his lavish hand, Philostratus had again approached him to claim his share of the new wealth. [10]
The image of Isis reminds us of the lavish bounties of the Creator, just as you are reminded by the cross, the fish, and the lamb, of your Redeemer. [10]
The Southern heart is too impulsive; Southern hospitality is too lavish with the stranger. [5]
I think that in the Jubilees and their songs America has produced the perfectest flower of the ages; and I wish it were a foreign product, so that she would worship it and lavish money on it and go properly crazy over it. [5]
But she knew his opinions full well, I tell you, and shed many a tear over them, too.--Now she has expended vast sums on church-building, she has opened the Xenodochium and pours her money by lavish handfuls clown the insatiable throats of monks and priests. [10]
He enjoyed life; he was genial and jovial, both lavish and parsimonious,--this latter characteristic being the curious survival of the trait of the ancestors to which he owed his millions. [9]
Not one would have come to perfection if the sower had been too lavish with his seed. [10]
Some lavish demon has turned a worthless plate of gold into a costly gem.--And may I ask who it was that saw the empty setting hanging to your chain? [10]
Alexas's lavish patron had made him so rich that he could bear to lose his favour for the sake of this object. [10]
What prevented him from revelling to the full in the superabundant gifts which Fate, recently so cruel, now suddenly cast into his lap with lavish kindness? [10]
Prick up your ears, my friend, and summon all your strength, for there are instances of the fatal effect of especially lavish gifts from the blind and yet often sure aim of the goddess of Fortune. [10]
But if being discountenanced by these young fellows had been hard to bear, their lavish commendations and approval and hero-worship was harder still to endure. [5]
Besides, in former days, when she scattered gold with lavish hands, he had predicted what had now befallen her, and when he left Augsburg he had asked the nuns to tell her that if she should ever be in want she must remember Loni. [10]
The day was cool and snappy for August, and the Rise all green with a lavish nature. [9]
Had he been convinced of the contrary, he would have sacrificed everything he possessed in order, by lavish offerings, to propitiate the immortals in behalf of her to whom he had devoted his life and every faculty of his being. [10]
Several things had come at once: his going,--on whom should she lavish her good advice and biting candour now?--yesterday's business in the Vier Marchi with Olivier Delagarde, and the bitter change in Ranulph. [11]
How easily, when Caius sees Cnejus lavish gold where silver or copper would serve, he thinks of Martial's apt words: 'Who gives great gifts, expects great gifts again. [10]
Nature must needs be lavish with the mother and creator of men, and centre in her all the possibilities of life. [5]
He was a base-minded voluptuary, who, aided by rich gifts of mind and wide knowledge, had shunned no means of ingratiating himself with Antony, the most lavish of patrons. [10]
Both men were as unprincipled as they were lavish, and experience taught them that base natures always have at their disposal a plank with which to bridge chasms. [10]
But Melissa was as little in the humor to admire all the lavish magnificence which surrounded her as Alexander had been a few days since. [10]
It is strange and fine--Nature's lavish generosities to her creatures. [5]
They chiseled angels and cherubs and devils and skeletons on the tombstones in the most lavish and generous way--as to supply--but curiously grotesque and outlandish as to form. [5]
He gave winnings and booty with lavish hand, and every beggar was sure of assistance. [10]
A steamer came along, finally, and carried the unfortunates to Memphis, and there the most lavish assistance was at once forthcoming. [5]
In order to accomplish this work, so pleasing to the Lord, the Church was ready to make lavish use of the treasures of mercy intrusted to her. [10]
There is not a coaxing name that he does not lavish on them, while he fills their cups with fresh seed and water; and how carefully he moves his big hand as he strews the little cages with clean sand! [10]

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