They were greeted by the luxuriance of green meadows fronting the balcony of the large castle. From LearnThat.org.
How different in their free-born luxuriance from the dusty and city-prisoned elms and willows she had left!. From Wordnik.com. [Queechy] Reference
I put on his flannel shirt -- it fell down to my toes, like a bedgown; his drawers -- and they flowed in Turkish luxuriance over my feet. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot] Reference
Tame, cold, dispassionate minds resemble barren lands; warm, animated ones, rich ground, which, if properly cultivated, yields the noblest fruit; but, if neglected, from its luxuriance is most productive of weeds. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Emily Montague] Reference
Louisville is the largest city in Kentucky; the country about is very rich, and every thing vegetable springs up with a luxuriance which is surprising. From Wordnik.com. [Diary in America, Series One] Reference
We were tired of tropical luxuriance, and eternal summer. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
It is a superb farming country, everything growing in the greatest luxuriance. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
The landscape has none of the exuberant luxuriance and variety of the Undercliff. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Vol. 12, No. 32, November, 1873] Reference
They grew with the greatest luxuriance, and produced abundance of flowers and seed. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
The real wealth of India lies in the luxuriance and economic value of its VEGETATION. From Wordnik.com. [Up To Date Business Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.)] Reference
The land is generally low, and covered with an astonishing luxuriance of wood and herbage. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of a Voyage to India; of a Shipwreck on board the Lady Castlereagh; and a Description of New South Wales] Reference
A wild luxuriance of foliage, utterly unknown before, burst out upon every vegetable thing. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 385. November, 1847.] Reference
Landscapes of greater beauty, joined to the luxuriance of fruitful vine culture, can nowhere be seen. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Every species of grass flourishes or may flourish here, with a luxuriance unrivalled on the continent. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864] Reference
I might, by the way, have remarked of South Harting that the luxuriance of the clematis in its hedges is unsurpassed. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Scilly can compare with the magnificent coast scenery of the mainland, or with the verdant luxuriance of richer soils. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
Neglect only seemed to give richer luxuriance to every thing around; the hedges and rose-thickets were tangled together. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
The plant attains a large size, and grows with a luxuriance common to all products grown in the famous "blue grass" region. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
The height and luxuriance of the latter seemed quite incomprehensible after the total absence of forest scenery for so many months. From Wordnik.com. [A Lady's Life on a Farm in Manitoba] Reference
The riotous luxuriance of tropical Nature triumphed over the glories of Art, hewn with incalculable toil and skill in the living rock. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
The ride to the hotel, located on the sea, had shown us unusual luxuriance of vegetation and wonderful trees both in fruit and in blossom. From Wordnik.com. [Travels in the Far East] Reference
The island, seven hundred miles long, and described by Marianne North as "one magnificent garden of tropical luxuriance," has not yet become. From Wordnik.com. [Through the Malay Archipelago] Reference
The ancient Jews, like their modern descendants, were noted for the luxuriance and richness of their hair and the care which they devoted to it. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
Sometimes the forest opens overhead, but nearly all the way we are covered by a roof of green, and at every turn appear new scenes of beauty and luxuriance. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Stories Retold from St. Nicholas] Reference
The summer had been one of the wildest luxuriance ever known in the valley of the Wabash; for it was in that beautiful valley that our friend Hobert had settled. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 106, August, 1866] Reference
Yes -- that's just it -- a real one at last -- one that invigorates the roots and promotes the restoration of the hair to its original beauty, luxuriance and color. From Wordnik.com. [The Handy Cyclopedia of Things Worth Knowing A Manual of Ready Reference] Reference
It is about 27 m. long from north to south and about 10 wide -- a low flat space of sandy waste with cultivated oases and palm groves of great luxuriance and beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy"] Reference
But if trees are scarce, plants like the fuchsia grow to tree-like luxuriance; there is a rich abundance of ferns, while both the land and the marine flora are very rich. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The rich luxuriance of movements and of individual characters chokes our path; it is a labyrinth in which one may well lose one's way and fail to see the wood for the trees. From Wordnik.com. [Victorian Worthies Sixteen Biographies] Reference
All round the castle of Stolzenfels are the choicest flowers and shrubs; and I wish some of my horticultural friends could have seen the moss roses and fuchias in such luxuriance. From Wordnik.com. [Young Americans Abroad Vacation in Europe: Travels in England, France, Holland, Belgium, Prussia and Switzerland] Reference
Even in Asia Minor signs are not wanting that Turkish rule will be pruned, clipped and trained considerably, as humanity will stand its rampant luxuriance of blood and barbarity no longer. From Wordnik.com. [Pan-Islam] Reference
At that moment I hope I looked a trifle like Nature, who was in the height of her being; in a sort of tropical luxuriance, like a beautiful woman at the very summit of maturity and perfection. From Wordnik.com. [How to Cook Husbands] Reference
The luxuriance of the island pleased the Spaniards, and as they made their way slowly along the shore their eyes rested for the first time, and unconsciously, on the mainland of South America. From Wordnik.com. [A Book of Discovery The History of the World's Exploration, From the Earliest Times to the Finding of the South Pole] Reference
The occasional washing of the head is absolutely necessary to preserve the health of the scalp and the luxuriance and beauty of the hair when much oil, pomatum or other greasy substance is used in dressing it. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
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