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From sumptuous Versailles, with its palaces, its statues, its gardens, and its fountains, we journeyed back to Paris and sought its antipodes --the Faubourg St. Antoine. [5]
It caused a visible stir of surprise, it being brand new and a sumptuous article of deal. [5]
He lay down upon a sumptuous divan, and proceeded to instruct himself with honest zeal. [5]
This sumptuous special train caused as much comment as the errand on which it went. [4]
In many cases, too, the wealthy and the cultured rose to spittoons and other evidences of a sumptuous and luxurious taste. [5]
Then he clucked to the half-breed woman, and she made ready as sumptuous a tea as ever entered the room of a convalescent. [11]
We are invited to occupy a room in the sumptuous new hotel (the "Krantz" where we are to live during the Fall and Winter) and view it, and we shall go. [5]
Then we lounged through many and many a sumptuous private mansion which we could not have entered without a formal invitation in incomprehensible Latin, in the olden time, when the owners lived there--and we probably wouldn't have got it. [5]
As a rule they spent a part of every Sabbath--after morning service --in this sumptuous home, the rest of it they spent in Europe, or in dawdling around in their private yacht. [5]
He had relieved them of such money as was in their pockets, and then had caused them to write sumptuous cheques on their banks, payable to bearer. [11]
The windows of the sumptuous restaurants stand open, and one breakfasts there and enjoys the passing show. [5]
They reach even the poor relation, whose dreary apparition saddens the perfumed atmosphere of the sumptuous drawing-room. [6]
They called him the Bastille sometimes, and sometimes they called him Hellfire, which was on account of his warm and sumptuous style in battle, and you know they wouldn't have given him pet names if they hadn't had a good deal of affection for him. [5]
Sellers's was not sumptuous, in the beginning, but it improved on acquaintance. [5]
There is a sumptuous variety about the New England weather that compels the stranger's admiration--and regret. [5]
This strange and sumptuous person seemed intimate with him. [9]
My old rusty suit which I exchanged for the one I had worn seemed almost sumptuous, and the woollen wear comforted my weakened body. [11]
We gathered a specimen or two of every kind which we were unacquainted with; so we had sumptuous bouquets. [5]
The tents lay silent in the moonshine, but wayward lights flickered in the sumptuous dusk, and the quiet of the hills hung like a canopy over the bivouac of the little army. [11]
The parents and several friends of the bridegroom were present, and enjoyed a sumptuous breakfast and much festivity until nearly sunrise, and then departed on a bridal trip to the Aquarium, the bridegroom's state of health not admitting of a more extended journey. [5]
He had never seen it with his eyes, but if he had seen it he would have realized how like herself it was--adorably fresh, happily coloured, sumptuous and fine. [11]
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. [5]
There was something regnant in her, while, too, there was something sumptuous and sensuous and physically thrilling to the senses. [11]
I find it quite impossible to imagine Him, in life, standing sponsor for that museum there, and taking pleasure in its sumptuous shows. [5]
A sumptuous edition on large paper, rough-edged, was made by Lieut. [5]
We are perched on a hill-top that overlooks a little world of green valleys, shining rivers, sumptuous forests and billowy uplands veiled in the haze of distance. [5]
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. [2]
She is full of palaces, certainly, and the palaces are sumptuous inside, but they are very rusty without and make no pretensions to architectural magnificence. [5]
I attended one of his showy evenings in the sumptuous quarters provided for him from the purses of his adherents and well-wishers. [5]
It was a natural and human taste--the cabbage from the tree-top boiled for a simple yet sumptuous meal. [11]
He is the most sumptuous person--entirely a luxury. [11]
Indeed, it seems more of Rabelais than of Boccaccio or Masuccio or Aretino--is brutally British rather than lasciviously latinate, as to the subjects, but sumptuous as regards the language. [5]
Her court is more magnificent than any other in Europe, whether you regard the rich and infinite furniture of the household, the number of officers, or the sumptuous entertainments. [4]
Such is the legend of the monopolist's once stately and sumptuous castle, now called the "Spectacular Ruin. [5]
This night--perhaps its last--should see a grand, a sumptuous feast; he invited his friends and adherents--the leaders of spiritual life in Alexandria--to a 'symposium', after the manner of the philosophers and dilettanti of ancient Athens, to be held in the great concert-hall of the Serapeum. [10]
She invited the King, and made sumptuous preparations to receive him, but--he didn't come. [5]
Before they reached it the equipage passed the sumptuous tents which had been erected for the royal pair and their attendants. [10]
I must get into sumptuous raiment, and it wouldn't do to run and jump into it. [5]
He had not hesitated; he had yielded himself to the sumptuous attraction, and the fire in his eyes was only the window of the furnace within him. [11]
The reason we had an hour to spare was because we had to change our stage (for a less sumptuous affair, called a "mud-wagon") and transfer our freight of mails. [5]
I witnessed the funeral procession, in company with friends, from the windows of the Krantz, Vienna's sumptuous new hotel. [5]
The barbaric gorgeousnesses, for instance; and the princely titles, the sumptuous titles, the sounding titles,--how good they taste in the mouth! [5]
It was the first thing I thought of--that unapproachable luxury--that sumptuous coffee-house coffee, compared with which all other European coffee and all American hotel coffee is mere fluid poverty. [5]
To close our first day in Paris cheerfully and pleasantly, we now sought our grand room in the Grand Hotel du Louvre and climbed into our sumptuous bed to read and smoke--but alas! [5]
The sumptuous edifice erected by the Art of the nineteenth century, to hold the treasures of its Industry, could show nothing fairer than the court which copies the Moorish palace that crowns the summit of Granada. [6]
Far up against Dalgrothe Mountain appeared a sumptuous star, mystical and red. [11]
Tom made us comfortable in that sumptuous great apartment, and then said, with many bows and a perfect affluence of smiles: "Now, is dey anything you want, sah? [5]
She was as broad as sumptuous in her nature; so what did a gaucherie matter? [11]
Every little village boasted an excellent inn, and in the towns on the great thoroughfares were sumptuous houses that would accommodate from two to three hundred guests with their horses. [4]
At a stir behind him the Lord Chamberlain turned, and with a horrified exclamation hurried away, for the procession from the Queen's apartments had already entered the presence-chamber: gentlemen, barons, earls, knights of the garter, in brave attire, with bare heads and sumptuous calves. [11]
His heart had been dancing all the time, his thoughts had been faraway from these things, and in the visions of his mind the sumptuous appointments of his father's castle had risen before him without rebuke. [5]
In one sumptuous bed they had all slept in succession, but no one occupies it now. [5]
It was greatly admired by yachtsmen for the beauty of its lines and its speed, and pages were written about its sumptuous and comfortable interior. [4]
He had kept a sumptuous saloon. [5]
Abreast it, with a small space between, was another and larger platform, handsomely canopied against sun and rain, and richly carpeted; also it was furnished with comfortable chairs, and with two which were more sumptuous than the others, and raised above the general level. [5]
Our coach was a great swinging and swaying stage, of the most sumptuous description--an imposing cradle on wheels. [5]

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