No, sooth, sir: my determinate voyage is mere extravagancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Twelfth Night; or, What You Will] Reference

What you show is complete extravagancy and uncessary use of valuable materials.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zero Energy Houses Creating a New Design Vernacular:] Reference

What extravagancy is not man capable of entertaining, when once his shackled reason is led in triumph by fancy and prejudice!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

The Japanese history of “Tanzar and Neadarne,” by the same author, is an amiable extravagancy, interspersed with the most just reflections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

Only we must be sure that it be a divine revelation, and that we understand it right: else we shall expose ourselves to all the extravagancy of enthusiasm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Warranted Christian Belief] Reference

This monarch reigned for the space of five years, with tolerable credit to himself, but then gave way to the greatest extravagancy of temper, and to the most atrocious barbarities.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference

But design styles do tend to filter down from those rich enough for an “complete extravagancy and uncessary use of valuable materials” – because they hire architects who follow eachothers work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zero Energy Houses Creating a New Design Vernacular:] Reference

Emmanuel was in Mansoul; wherefore they, looking upon what the captains did to be, as they called it, a fruit of the extravagancy of their wild and foolish fancies, rather despised them than feared them.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Holy War] Reference

To avoid this incommodious extravagancy, incline somewhat to the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Gentlewoman's Companion: or,%0AA Guide to the Female Sex] Reference

This extravagancy, I can assure you, was believed by many above people.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Letters of Horace Walpole, Earl of Orford — Volume 2] Reference

Notice is here taken of his pomp, the extravagancy of his retinue, v. 11.    From Wordnik.com.  [Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)] Reference

A more curious extravagancy was uttered to me by a professor of applied mathematics.    From Wordnik.com.  [From Sail to Steam, Recollections of Naval Life] Reference

They are a mixture of the sublime with hyperbole, and the ftmifiar with extravagancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A View of Nature: In Letters to a Traveller Among the Alps] Reference

I had thought all such extravagancy perished with the Launcelot and Palomides of your book.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes] Reference

St. Marcel's suburbs, to see the extravagancy of the Gobeline building, and to taste of their spiced bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 2] Reference

Divine and heavenly things do indeed refine and lop off the extravagancy, but they abate nothing of the vigour of our affections.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sermons Preached Upon Several Occasions. Vol. VII.] Reference

The moderate man, eminent for no excess or extravagancy in his judgment, will have few patrons to protect, or persons to adhere unto him.    From Wordnik.com.  [Good Thoughts in Bad Times and Other Papers.] Reference

No enthusiasm ever reached to such a pitch of extravagancy as that: a spirit may be an illusion; a body is a real thing, an object of sense, in which there can be no mistake.    From Wordnik.com.  [Evidence of Christianity] Reference

The fifteenth Chapter points out the want of formality in the nomination of the judges: and proves the extravagancy of making it a crime in them to maintain the rights of the.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life of the Truly Eminent and Learned Hugo Grotius Containing a Copious and Circumstantial History of the Several Important and Honourable Negotiations in Which He Was Employed; together with a Critical Account of His Works] Reference

And I said, I was very sorry for my extravagancy: and if it had not been my master's doings, I should have said, it was a fault to permit me to be surprised, and put out of myself, before such good company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference

KUWAIT: Official delegations that represent the Ministry of Communications abroad are clear-cut examples of public fund extravagancy, especially when expenses are made through wrong channels, officials said.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

I told him, I imagined this extravagancy would have so contrary an effect to his intention, that what he kindly meant for praise, might be misinterpreted, or render him liable to censure, and me to ridicule.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland]

In this intemperate address, he displaved all that rancour of hate, all that insolence of malice, and all lliat extravagancy of falsehood, which could onlv have been expected from the worst of demagogues. jNIr.    From Wordnik.com.  [Washington to the people of the United States on the choice of a president] Reference

The best and most commendable lives, and best pleasing me are (in my conceit), those which with order are fitted, and with decorum are ranged, to the common mould and human model; but without wonder or extravagancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of French Literature Short Histories of the Literatures of the World: II.] Reference

Because they please for the extravagancy, but ought not to displease by indiscretion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Leviathan, or, The matter, forme, & power of a common-wealth ecclesiasticall and civill] Reference

Yet I hear no man to charge him with any vicious extravagancy, or visible carelessness, imputing his ill success to some occult cause in God's counsel. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [On the Portraits of English Authors on Gardening, with Biographical Notices of Them, 2nd edition, with considerable additions] Reference

Orlando’s lost wits, at the end of the 34th book, and the many lost things that he finds there, is a most happy extravagancy, and contains, at the same time, a great deal of sense.    From Wordnik.com.  [Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman] Reference

Pantagruel one day, to refresh himself of his study, went a-walking towards St. Marcel’s suburbs, to see the extravagancy of the Gobeline building, and to taste of their spiced bread.    From Wordnik.com.  [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference

And I said, I was very sorry for my extravagancy: and if it had not been my master’s doings, I should have said, it was a fault to permit me to be surprised, and put out of myself, before such good company.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pamela] Reference

The Ramayana will furnish the best account of Hindoo mythology that any one book will, and has extravagancy enough to excite a wish to read it through. ".    From Wordnik.com.  [Life of William Carey] Reference

Th 'extravagancy of my flame.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hudibras] Reference

"th 'extravagancy.    From Wordnik.com.  [Miscellaneous Writings and Speeches — Volume 2] Reference