All bedrooms have a terrace or balcony and face the sea, although the luxuriant foliage of the trees can obscure sea views. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
We are too close to realities to indulge in luxuriant theories. From Wordnik.com. [SpainIts Internal Issues and Repercussions As Affecting the British Empire] Reference
In front of the pulpit was a stand bearing tall white geraniums in luxuriant blossom. From Wordnik.com. [Chronicles of Avonlea] Reference
High temperatures combined with lots of rainfall result in luxuriant vegetation and boundless wildlife. From Wordnik.com. [Did you know? An enchanted lake in Veracruz rises every dry season, but falls again during the wet season] Reference
How delightful it was after descending along rugged paths to camp in luxuriant grass, and among brushwood which provided us with plenty of firewood. From Wordnik.com. [With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior] Reference
Orli Shaham played seven Chopin pieces with the kind of luxuriant charm that reminded me of historic recordings by Ignatz Paderewski. From Wordnik.com. [Cause to Celebrate at Merkin Hall] Reference
Thou seest the earth sometimes dried up and barren: but when we send down rain thereon, it is put in motion and swelleth, and produceth every kind of luxuriant vegetables. From Wordnik.com. [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference
3 And thou hast seen the earth dried up and barren: but when We send down the rain upon it, it stirreth and swelleth, and groweth every kind of luxuriant herb. From Wordnik.com. [The Koran (Al-Qur'an)] Reference
Her fancy is luxuriant, of more power than her imagination. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The vegetation is luxuriant, but few of the flowers are fragrant. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXVI. October, 1843. Vol. LIV.] Reference
From happiest homes and such luxuriant lands has the golden magnet drawn its victims. From Wordnik.com. [The Shirley Letters from California Mines in 1851-52] Reference
There are grassy glens, with trees, and luxuriant gardens surrounding pretty English cottages. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Thanks to the abundant water the slopes are covered with luxuriant, almost tropical vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Portugal's Alluring Hideaways] Reference
Thereupon he hobbled the horses in the luxuriant grass round the spring, and then unrolled his pack. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
They landed on Randall's Island, a lovely spot at all seasons, but now teaming with luxuriant beauty. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
The river narrowed and flowed sluggishly between the banks which were luxuriant with tropical growth. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the Land of Wonders, or, the Underground Search for the Idol of Gold] Reference
All around were lofty shores, fertile, well tilled, covered with verdurous trees and luxuriant vegetation. From Wordnik.com. [Lost in the Fog] Reference
It has also been somewhat too generally stated that peloria occurs principally on luxuriant vigorous plants. From Wordnik.com. [Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants] Reference
The houses are mostly cottages, half-hidden in orchards and luxuriant gardens, having a prodigality of ground. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Remains of John Clare "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet"] Reference
At first sight the joke turns on the mismatch between the poet's luxuriant style and a highly unsuitable subject. From Wordnik.com. ['The Oxford Book of Parodies'] Reference
A young woman beautiful beyond my feeble powers of description; her eyes of a heavenly blue; her luxuriant hair like. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
In this respect the place actually rivals Tresco, and the fields of narcissi are as luxuriant as those of the Scillies. From Wordnik.com. [The Cornwall Coast] Reference
The vegetation was rich and luxuriant everywhere, palm-trees, vines, and flowers growing in profusion all along the road. From Wordnik.com. [The Adventures of a Boy Reporter] Reference
They grow freely in parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and are particularly luxuriant in Canada and the northern portions of the. From Wordnik.com. [Seasoning of Wood] Reference
I thought at the time how this tree, with its crown of luxuriant foliage and its writhing roots, might well pass for some gigantic. From Wordnik.com. [The Darrow Enigma] Reference
All of these edifices became, during the succeeding centuries, overgrown with the luxuriant tropical vegetation and partly buried. From Wordnik.com. [Wealth of the World's Waste Places and Oceania] Reference
Switzer pine amid the luxuriant scenes of tropical life, when their thoughts revert to the smoky shieling or to the rock-encompassed. From Wordnik.com. [Woman on the American Frontier] Reference
Its appearance, however, was extremely curious, contrasted with the natural and luxuriant beauties of the country by which it was surrounded. From Wordnik.com. [The Eskdale Herd-boy A Scottish Tale for the Instruction and Amusement of Young People] Reference
The ring of rocks is flat on the surface, which is composed of friable soil, and sustains a luxuriant vegetation, chiefly of cocoa-nut palms. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
Its level surface presents, in rapid succession, rich meadows, luxuriant corn-fields, and green hedgerows, with occasional patches of woodland. From Wordnik.com. [The Automobilist Abroad] Reference
Hot, dry, and barren at its beginning, this cleft became cool and shady and luxuriant with grass and flowers and amber moss with silver blossoms. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts Book of Campfire Stories] Reference
All these were gardens of the South; but before childhood was over I watched the quick, luxuriant growth of flowers through the brief summer of a northern clime. From Wordnik.com. [Aunt Jane of Kentucky] Reference
Let it be well brushed into the hair for two or three months, particularly applying it to those parts where it may be most desirable to render the hair luxuriant. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
The contrast was too striking -- her own child so luxuriant in health and beauty -- that little homeless being with cheeks so thin and eyes so full of intelligence. From Wordnik.com. [The Old Homestead] Reference
Early as it was, the short grass was green and luxuriant, and what surprised the boys more than any thing else was the number, variety and size of the wild flowers. From Wordnik.com. [The Boy Scouts on the Yukon] Reference
This region of Coahuila receives the highest rainfall; this is evidenced by the luxuriant growth of boreal plants living in the higher places there (Baker, 1956: 131). From Wordnik.com. [Birds from Coahuila, Mexico] Reference
The whole of the forests, vineyards, and other luxuriant vegetation, which had covered that portion of the sides of Vesuvius where the eruption took place, were destroyed. From Wordnik.com. [Wonders of Creation] Reference
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