This government building is sumptuously appointed. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
Adjective : a sumptuous residence. ,a sumptuous feast. From Dictionary.com.
Hostages have even told of being fed "sumptuously," with pirates billing the shipping companies for the food and drinks. From Wordnik.com. [Philly.com - Latest Videos] Reference
Who cared or knew, so long as Pompey or Cæsar fared sumptuously?. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
Governor had dined sumptuously and received his henchman graciously. From Wordnik.com. [Rabbi and Priest A Story] Reference
It was a splendid craft of twenty thousand tons and sumptuously fitted up. From Wordnik.com. [Baseball Joe Around the World Pitching on a Grand Tour] Reference
We encamped at night by the edge of a cornfield and fared very sumptuously. From Wordnik.com. [An interesting journal of Abner Stocking of Chatham, Connecticut detailing the distressing events of the expedition against Quebec, under the command of Col. Arnold in the year 1775] Reference
They have a great reverence for cows and feed them sumptuously at festivals. From Wordnik.com. [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference
The apartment was sumptuously furnished in two colors -- amber and lazulite. From Wordnik.com. [Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch] Reference
Course follows course, of viands the most delicious, and sumptuously served. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Cozy and sumptuously soft, cashmere is everyone's favorite fabric for winter. From Wordnik.com. [Furnishings: Snuggled In Softly For The Winter] Reference
Barrent went in, and found himself in a small, sumptuously furnished waiting room. From Wordnik.com. [The Status Civilization] Reference
There was plenty of excellent food aboard, and for once the rowers fed sumptuously. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea] Reference
It is a sumptuously produced work in two large octavo volumes, copiously illustrated. From Wordnik.com. [The Book-Hunter at Home] Reference
Winds, who welcomed them cordially, and sumptuously entertained them for a whole month. From Wordnik.com. [Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome] Reference
She was sumptuously dressed, as usual, and wore her clothes with extravagant carelessness. From Wordnik.com. [Peter and Jane or The Missing Heir] Reference
They drew Number 83 -- a lovely room, much larger than their old one and more sumptuously furnished. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Miss Nobody Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall] Reference
We were sumptuously regaled at his table every day, and the evening was spent with cards and concerts. From Wordnik.com. [Voyage of H.M.S. Pandora Despatched to Arrest the Mutineers of the 'Bounty' in the South Seas, 1790-1791] Reference
His rangy, opening cadenza in "Darn That Dream" wobbles sumptuously, coursing with unfiltered emotion. From Wordnik.com. [Von Freeman's Core Corps, Captured In Germany] Reference
Stay at one of our sumptuously designed apartments the next time you visit NYC. 38\% less expensive. From Wordnik.com. [Gayired.com - Gay OnLine Community for Entertainment and Daily News] Reference
There was a certain rich man who was clothed in purple and fine linen and feasted sumptuously every day. From Wordnik.com. [The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 49: Luke The Challoner Revision] Reference
Podacatharo waited with the fleet of Cyprus -- most sumptuously outfitted -- to receive the bride of Janus. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus] Reference
In another minute he enters, without knocking, a spacious parlor, decorated and furnished most sumptuously. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
Such was the pathetic cry of one who was "clothed in purple and fine linen, and fared sumptuously every day.". From Wordnik.com. [My Daily Meditation for the Circling Year] Reference
I rung the bell; a sumptuously-dressed woman came to the door, which opened into a gorgeously-decorated hall. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
The Englishmen were glad enough to get fresh food after their long crossing, and fared sumptuously on rice, hens. 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
This afternoon I too would be a guest at Sadoughi's sumptuously restored historic home in the ancient city center. From Wordnik.com. [Tehran or Bust] Reference
He followed him, and caught him in a cave, feeding sumptuously upon the grains of oats which fell one by one from the roof. From Wordnik.com. [Folk-lore and Legends: German] Reference
The boys lived sumptuously on flour, molasses, cured hams and many other of the staunch things of life -- never fared better. From Wordnik.com. [History of the Eighty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, during its term of service] Reference
Mr. Francis Sydney and his lady were seated at dinner, in the sumptuously furnished dining parlor of their elegant Broadway mansion. From Wordnik.com. [City Crimes or Life in New York and Boston] Reference
He then entertained them sumptuously, and sent them back to their communes to persuade their brethren of his sincerity and kindness. From Wordnik.com. [The Vaudois of Piedmont A Visit to their Valleys] Reference
I would return to Paris -- thus, on foot -- a beggar -- and present myself in my poverty to those I had formerly entertained sumptuously. From Wordnik.com. [The International Monthly, Volume 3, No. 1, April, 1851] Reference
This milk fed the baby, and afforded a good substitute for butter, in the form of milk gravy -- on which Danny fared sumptuously every day. From Wordnik.com. [Crossing the Plains, Days of '57 A Narrative of Early Emigrant Tavel to California by the Ox-team Method] Reference
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