With all her seeming lavishness, she rarely wastes a word. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 84, October, 1864] Reference
That is what disarmed people -- this lavishness of the girl. From Wordnik.com. [The Shield of Silence] Reference
“Oh, I recognized your lavishness and taste; but the lady?”. From Wordnik.com. [Domestic Peace] Reference
And in this manner her lavishness, shall destroy all your estate. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference
Arching her back and throwing off the sheet to show off her lavishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Satanic Verses]
The hangings of the walls were a freak at once of genius and lavishness. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 2, February, 1862 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
However, despite its lavishness, this one is plain silly and looks awful. From Wordnik.com. [Latest 'Aida' in London Fails to Deliver] Reference
"What evidence do you have of lavishness at our winter meeting in Hawaii?". From Wordnik.com. [Michael Steele Gets Into Heated Debate With Andrea Mitchell Over Bondage Club Snafu (VIDEO)] Reference
She was constructed, she was erected, as it were, with a regal lavishness. From Wordnik.com. [Falk, by Joseph Conrad] Reference
These Reason-Principles — this Poros who is the lavishness, the abundance of. From Wordnik.com. [The Six Enneads.] Reference
Our Richard Quest is joining us now live from Washington in all his lavishness. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 7, 2007] Reference
Transatlantic examples might put our own boasted lavishness of charity to shame. From Wordnik.com. [The Quarterly Review, Volume 162, No. 324, April, 1886] Reference
On hearing this estimate, which proved to her the lavishness of her husband, Madame. From Wordnik.com. [A Marriage Contract] Reference
To me, it was absolutely the Garden of Eden, because there was this lavishness, you see. From Wordnik.com. [Oral History Interview with Virginia Foster Durr, March 13, 14, 15, 1975. Interview G-0023-1. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)] Reference
He had a great deal of the Italian largeness and lavishness of character with his family. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
One after another their London houses were opened and decorated with the utmost lavishness. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Affinities of History — Complete] Reference
One of the things that struck me about him was the lavishness of his lifestyle and spending. From Wordnik.com. [Den of Thieves] Reference
This lavishness served to stimulate cupidity, and every day the Bedawin brought in specimens from half. From Wordnik.com. [The Land of Midian] Reference
For every one acts his own part, but it tends altogether unto wickedness, lavishness, and troublesomness. From Wordnik.com. [The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple] Reference
Gold has been used in profusion, and black, dull red, and white, with a breadth and lavishness quite unique. From Wordnik.com. [Unbeaten Tracks in Japan] Reference
My reputation for lavishness stood me here in great stead, for henceforth there was no difficulty on this score. From Wordnik.com. [A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia] Reference
Easy to hurl anything off the Moon, with its low escape velocity and its lavishness of virtually cost-free energy. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
"A culture of lavishness, a culture of luxury, a culture of entitlement has overtaken the former freedom fighters.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
Whether the late oil baron J. Paul Getty, who made all this lavishness possible, would have liked it, we'll never know. From Wordnik.com. [A Lavish Place In The Sun] Reference
It contained an exquisite screen, a French ormolu desk, some elegant chairs and a certain lavishness of porcelain amoretti. From Wordnik.com. [Tied Up in Tinsel]
At first I was embarrassed and ashamed at the constrictions of my grief for human beings, and the lavishness of my grief for a dog. From Wordnik.com. [The Death of Miles] Reference
The only two articles which I will never supply, are the profusion of low riot, and the idle lavishness of negligence and laziness. From Wordnik.com. [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference
Perhaps as a safeguard, Wright began with the outer buildings, saving much of the lavishness and the biggest bills for the main house. From Wordnik.com. [Buffalo's Wright Stuff] Reference
There was no sudden change to the use of the straight line, but people were tired of so much lavishness and motion in their decoration. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishing the Home of Good Taste A Brief Sketch of the Period Styles in Interior Decoration with Suggestions as to Their Employment in the Homes of Today] Reference
But a fresh press counts more than a new suit by a Fifth Avenue tailor left unpressed, and neatness beats lavishness any day in the week. From Wordnik.com. [The Armed Forces Officer Department of the Army Pamphlet 600-2] Reference
The room measured perhaps thirty feet in each dimension, and was furnished with a lavishness exceeded only by the sitting room downstairs. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
The question should surely be asked: Can we afford this lavishness when our sources of financial resources abroad have all but disappeared?. From Wordnik.com. [SECTION B] Reference
He made up for the lack of novel surroundings by the lavishness of his entertaining, which had begun to earn him something of a reputation. From Wordnik.com. [Elvenborn]
The German's little, black eyes opened as wide as was possible, which was not saying much; he was not used to such lavishness on the part of customers. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
Marcia Lowe, in a lavishness of good cheer, had decorated everything she could command beginning with the little chapel and ending with the post-office. From Wordnik.com. [A Son of the Hills] Reference
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