| 单词 | sumptuosity |
| 例句 | The furniture, lustres, ceilings, and pictures, all display a feeling for the fine arts, and a sumptuosity governed by good taste, which may well surprise us in a Cossack. Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. 2011-06-25T02:00:14.203Z Abbot Samson reëdifies it, all of polished marble; with the highest stretch of art and sumptuosity, reëmbellishes the Shrine for which it is to serve as pediment. Past and Present Thomas Carlyle's Collected Works, Vol. XIII. At the end of a passage leading from the quarter-deck there was a long saloon, its sumptuosity slightly tarnished perhaps, but having a grand air of roominess and comfort. Chance A Tale in Two Parts As one contemplates these courtly sumptuosities, La Bruyère's famous picture recurs to the mind, of far other scenes in the same gay land. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot To the flawless beauty of the face there was added that wonderful charm of innocence and unfading youth which no sumptuosities of dress and decoration could conceal. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography To facilitate matters the two friends progressively modified the sumptuosity of the program they had imposed upon themselves. Bohemians of the Latin Quarter I think it was in the rich Senatorial reception-room that I first caught myself being surprised that the heavy gilded and marmoreal sumptuosity of the decorations recalled the average European palace. Your United States Impressions of a first visit This carcass was magnificently clad, and if we are to see Gilles in his own environment, we must remember all the sumptuosity of fifteenth century furnishing. Là-bas Abbot Samson reedifies it, all of polished marble; with the highest stretch of art and sumptuosity, reembellishes the Shrine for which it is to serve as pediment. Past and Present He looked surreptitiously round the room, brilliantly lighted here, and there obscure, and he comprehended how every detail of its varied sumptuosity aptly illustrated her mind and heart. Mr. Prohack His entertainments were, for the most part, plain and citizenlike, the company general and popular; good taste and kindness made them pleasanter than sumptuosity would have done. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans He was rather a favourite with the regiment, treating the young officers with sumptuosity, and amusing them by his military airs. Vanity Fair Site, sumptuosity, climate, vegetation here attain their acme; so far, indeed, Nice may be pronounced flawless. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" No one on earth is now quite so richly dressed as she was, no one old or young indulges in so quiet and yet so profound a sumptuosity. In the Days of the Comet Next Saturday I give a dinner to the Tigres of my opera-box, and I am preparing sumptuosities out of all reason. Women in the Life of Balzac This same house Cornelia bought for seventy-five thousand drachmas, and not long after Lucius Lucullus, for two million five hundred thousand; so rapid and so great was the growth of Roman sumptuosity. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans Maximum of sumptuosity; really a polite creature; no man of his means so regardless of expense. History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 07 Neither Lyons, Bordeaux, Nantes, can compare with it for sumptuosity. In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" Do you consider that Nature too is a swollen flunky, hungry for veils; and can be taken in with your sublime airs of sumptuosity, and the large balance you actually have in Lombard Street? History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 04 At the end of a passage leading from the quarter-deck there was a long saloon, its sumptuosity slightly tarnished perhaps, but having a grand air of roominess and comfort. Chance A Tale in Two Parts They themselves broke up the Order of the Inimitable Livers, and constituted another in its place, not inferior in splendor, luxury, and sumptuosity, calling it that of the Diers together. Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans |
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