| 单词 | lap of luxury |
| 例句 | She was sick all the next day, and on Saturday went home, quite used up with her fortnight’s fun and feeling that she had ‘sat in the lap of luxury’ long enough. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z She spoke of how her children had been raised in the lap of luxury—annual ski trips, jaunts off to Europe. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z We climbed into what we believed was the lap of luxury. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z Add locksmith skills and a keen ability to keep a low profile, and I trip into the lap of luxury on a regular basis. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z I’d supposed he would be secured in the deepest dungeon that the Capitol had to offer, not cradled in the lap of luxury. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z Josephine Baker may be living in the lap of luxury in Paris, but a nightclub singer in 1930s Harlem, where “nobody’s working and nobody’s got prospects,” is just trying to survive. Review: Name-Dropping Harlem in ‘Blues for an Alabama Sky’ 2020-02-26T05:00:00Z And so there he sits today, in the lap of luxury, having fully convinced my parents that he’s clean; he just wasn’t quick enough on the machine he was working. My parents are killing my crackhead brother 2012-09-03T17:00:00Z Sylar, like other celebrities, lives in the lap of luxury, while many of his fellow creatures experience hunger, homelessness, abuse and other deprivations. The $70 billion Americans spend on pets could do more good 2018-10-15T04:00:00Z No up-and-coming playwright in New York City is living in the lap of luxury, but Larson’s digs were especially hardscrabble. ‘Tick, Tick … Boom!’: A Musical Based on a Musical About Writing a Musical. We Explain. 2021-11-04T04:00:00Z “Being arrested. Jails in Kenya are not the lap of luxury.” Director Wanuri Kahiu: 'The vilest comments have been from people I love' 2019-04-12T04:00:00Z Don’t count on the lap of luxury, but nobody suffers much on this small-ship expedition up the Inside Passage. Kayak, bushwhack and get to know scat on an adventure cruise to Alaska 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z “My grandparents worked, my parents work,” he said to the mostly white class, “And I work. Black people have it easy, they just sit at home in the lap of luxury and collect checks.” Trump's white male supporters may lose their food stamps 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z But perhaps the biggest appeal is that these guys live in the lap of luxury and they’re extremely open about their exploits. The Brant Brothers, the New Princes of the City 2012-06-20T20:17:45Z When you’re in the lap of luxury, these finer points matter — tickets aren’t as pricey as they used to be, but, still, pricey. Dinner at a Movie: ‘Cocaine Bear’ is best paired with cocktails at Redmond’s posh IPIC 2023-03-09T05:00:00Z Major U.S. airlines, including American, United, Delta and Alaska, still offer first class on domestic flights — but don’t expect a seat in the lap of luxury. What does ‘first class’ even mean anymore? 2022-10-31T04:00:00Z For the past couple weeks, Buddy’s been living in the feline lap of luxury with his two doting fosters, Dr. Katie Venanzi and her husband, David, in their South Philly home. Buddy the cat was facing certain death. Now he’s helping ensure other Philly animals survive 2022-05-06T04:00:00Z We’ve been making our own movie-theater-style popcorn at home for too long — having someone else not just pop it, but bring it to us, felt like the very lap of luxury. Dinner at a Movie: A movie mystifies but cocktails satisfy at The Big Picture in Issaquah 2022-04-22T04:00:00Z “The tiny Maltese,” the American Kennel Club tells us, “has been sitting in the lap of luxury since the Bible was a work in progress.” How Old Is the Maltese, Really? 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z “For animals that are in traveling performances, their life is hardly a lap of luxury,” said Kent Drotar, director of public relations for The Wild Animal Sanctuary in Keenesburg, Colorado. Colorado bill would prohibit traveling animal show 2021-04-12T04:00:00Z This one will be in shiny new SoFi Stadium, a lap of luxury. Dwyre: 'This didn't end well': The year I assigned Leon Uris to cover the L.A. Super Bowl 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z “Bold graffiti art, posh interiors, timeless family portraits, and Philly cheesesteaks served on silver platters will transport guests to the lap of luxury – auntie and uncle not included,” the press release promises. Mansion seen on 'Fresh Prince of Bel-Air' will soon be available on Airbnb 2020-09-14T04:00:00Z “Live in the lap of luxury while still enjoying a downtown neighborhood feel,” its Web site touts. The Grocery Store Where Produce Meets Politics 2019-11-18T05:00:00Z They discovered that the day after the Public Ledger reporter wrote about Capone’s fancy digs, a journalist from a competing paper found that the mobster’s abode was not the lap of luxury. Capone’s newly discovered prison roomie gets cot in exhibit 2019-05-02T04:00:00Z “On a maxi you can get to the coast at 80 miles per hour in the lap of luxury. On a scooter, it’s a struggle.” A 72-Year-Old Italian Star Barely Showing Its Age 2018-12-27T05:00:00Z Questions arose about his unpaid debts and tax liabilities while he lived the lap of luxury, as well as an October arrest for domestic violence allegations. Adult film star Stormy Daniels publicly accuses her lawyer Michael Avenatti of unethical conduct 2018-11-29T05:00:00Z This was quite at odds with one excited newspaper report that the lawmakers were "in a lap of luxury - swimming, sauna, massage and fine dining at a floating restaurant". Tales of the bizarre 'captivity' of 100 Tamil Nadu lawmakers - BBC News 2017-02-17T05:00:00Z But as we saw on a recent tour, this habitat is the lap of luxury for Martian hopefuls. Take a Look Inside a House Meant for Mars On her first night in the lap of luxury, she succumbs to an abundance of gourmet food, free wine and whiskey and falls into a deep slumber. ‘The Woman in Cabin 10’: now you see her, now you don’t 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z “If your goal is to get away and not be bothered and be in the lap of luxury,” Ms. Todd said, “it’s the perfect place.” Texas Ranch Where Scalia Died Is Rugged Oasis for the Famous 2016-02-13T05:00:00Z And I didn’t grow up in the lap of luxury like she did.” Janice Dickinson on Bill Cosby: ‘They can fling all they want at me. I did not consent.’ 2015-07-31T04:00:00Z “I was brought up in the lap of luxury,” Mrs. Gordon told the Inquirer. Bernice Gordon, whose crosswords appeared in newspapers across and down the U.S., dies at 101 2015-01-31T05:00:00Z They were reminiscent of the Orson Wells line, “Living in the lap of luxury isn’t bad except that you never know when luxury is going to stand up.” Luxury Brands Are Different 2014-07-22T04:00:00Z I think some civil servants are still stuck in the world or Sir Humphrey and should recognise the fact that those cars aren't there to chauffeur them around in the lap of luxury. Officials 'borrow ministers' cars' 2013-07-19T12:27:42Z And yet living in the lap of luxury for two or three weeks during the Olympics, without paying a penny, is not only possible, it just got easier. London 2012 Olympics: how to stay in the capital for free 2012-06-14T15:06:00Z If a man dies, his father, what's been lying in the lap of luxury at home, is to have his share. The Watchers A Novel 2012-01-29T03:00:08.560Z He is a man who from his very infancy has been nursed in the lap of luxury, and has systematically lived on the fat of the land. Oscar Wilde 2011-12-10T03:00:14.120Z It is at least something for women-folk, as you so gracefully describe the salt of the earth, to be brought up in the lap of luxury; please remember that, sir. A Woman Perfected 2011-12-02T03:00:24.420Z For a while they lived in lap of luxury, Fearing no misfortune, dallying lazily. A Literary History of the Arabs 2011-11-13T03:00:15.660Z All this going on in my house while you were living in the lap of luxury! Contemporary One-Act Plays 2011-11-12T03:00:36.860Z I was in London—the lap of luxury. The Phil May Album 2011-10-17T02:00:17.247Z You, who always lived in the lap of luxury! The Tour A Story of Ancient Egypt 2011-09-23T02:00:23.040Z It is a wonder he ever became the man in Parliament that he was, after such dandling as befell him in the lap of luxury. English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges 2011-08-29T02:01:10.603Z She was sick all the next day, and on Saturday went home, quite used up with her fortnight's fun, and feeling that she had "sat in the lap of luxury" long enough. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z It is not to the lap of luxury that we are to look for the source of manly character and manly virtues. Biography of Rev. Hosea Ballou 2011-08-04T02:00:22.900Z This place may not be the lap of luxury, but it is not so bad. Marjorie Dean College Freshman 2011-07-27T02:00:32.033Z While she lies in the lap of luxury I die of cold and hunger, and all for her. A Very Naughty Girl 2011-07-27T02:00:30.947Z It’s better to faint in the arms of truth and die in poverty than to lie for the lap of luxury and die disgraced. Treading the Narrow Way 2011-07-21T02:00:18.563Z I understand, mother, and quite agree; but I'm disappointed about Meg, for I'd planned to have her marry Teddy by and by, and sit in the lap of luxury all her days. Little Women or Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy 2011-08-18T02:00:21.810Z Why are you nursed in the lap of luxury? A Book of Ghosts 2011-07-08T02:00:19.203Z We had excellent quarters, a capital table—my darling girl and I were in the lap of luxury. A Claim on Klondyke A Romance of the Arctic El Dorado 2011-07-03T02:00:07.507Z Our father was a man of great wealth and high social position, and we were reared in the lap of luxury. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z I was nursed in the lap of luxury, never knew what it was to want, and consequently had no sympathy for those that suffered, or those immersed in the fierce struggles of poverty. A Book Written by the Spirits of the So-Called Dead 2011-05-03T02:00:15.900Z Stay in the lap of luxury . . . and read. Luxury hotels are offering eReaders as perks to their elite guests 2010-08-17T04:00:00Z But that hasn't stopped Madoff victims from sniping and the trustee is still seeking to recoup about $45 million from her, claiming she lived in the lap of luxury on his ill-gotten gains. Special Report: Sweethearts in crime 2010-04-15T12:52:00Z Brought up in the lap of luxury, never having expressed a desire that was not immediately gratified, Grace discovered after a time that wealth, while useful, has also its drawbacks. By Right of Conquest A Novel Here was poor Uncle Billy toiling through the ditches, while his selfish partner was lolling in the lap of luxury in San Francisco! International Short Stories American The little town of Silver Lake in south-central Oregon, to-day is in the lap of luxury, transportationly speaking, being but a beggarly ninety miles from a railroad. In the Oregon Country Out-Doors in Oregon, Washington, and California Together with some Legendary Lore, and Glimpses of the Modern West in the Making The palace gates were now thrown open by a host of servants, and in our rags and tatters we rolled at once from the hardships of the inhospitable desert into the lap of luxury. Across Asia on a Bicycle A few months later, more or less, you were touring up the Nile in your steam dahabeeah, and in the lap of luxury; you were taking saloon-carriages on Indian railways, weren't you?' Miss Cayley's Adventures Why work out our lives down here so they can live in the lap of luxury over our 355 heads? Astounding Stories of Super-Science, December 1930 Millionaires who flatter themselves that they can evade neuralgia by going and sitting in the lap of luxury make a great mistake. Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) Brought up in the lap of luxury, they ended like galley-slaves, because they had loved freedom more than wealth and ease. The Contemporary Review, Volume 36, September 1879 Miss French had fallen into the lap of luxury. Anthony Lyveden With the high stool went a low wage and a lot of wholesome admonitions—and this, after a boyhood and early youth spent in the very lap of luxury. The Free Range And there I’d been lying in the lap of luxury, with quick-footed ladies in uniform to answer my bell and fly at my bidding. The Prairie Mother She comes along and nips the poor yeoman as well as the millionaire who sits in the lap of luxury. Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) The great men and women of earth were not dandled in the lap of luxury. Autobiography of Frank G. Allen, Minister of the Gospel and Selections from his Writings It is really surprising to one reared in the lap of luxury, how little is actually necessary to support the human body healthfully. The American Family Robinson or, The Adventures of a Family lost in the Great Desert of the West I should like to know what a child like you knows about heart-aches—you, who have been brought up in what I may call the very lap of luxury. A Young Mutineer Here, again, those exposed to prolonged cold and inured to severe labor escape more easily than their sisters petted in the lap of luxury. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother What we know not doth not exist—for us; ergo, to lie in the earth is to rest in the lap of luxury, for all our consciousness of it. Under the Rose You think I can't be happy unless I live in the lap of luxury. Mistress Anne Nursed on the lap of luxury, habituated to the choicest viands, and accustomed to find every whim fulfilled, this kind of life was intolerable to him. Julian Home “But if I am living in the lap of luxury I’m not going to be chucked by you, old fellow,” he added. The Love Affairs of Pixie We are not going to live in the lap of luxury here, as you will soon discover. The Carved Cupboard Why, I knew Marc Runyon when he thought an upper berth was the very lap of luxury; knew him when he'd grind his teeth over payin' a ten-dollar fee to a doctor. The House of Torchy It would be impossible to go on living in the lap of luxury, wearing fine clothes, eating fine meals, being waited upon hand and foot, while our own people are in actual need.” The Fortunes of the Farrells You are going to marry a millionaire, and live in the lap of luxury ever after. More About Peggy And you, in the lap of luxury, counting your thousands, and monarch of all you survey, will be able to breathe again. Roger Ingleton, Minor We know that a young man thrown upon his own resources is more likely to be a great, good man than when cradled upon the lap of luxury or fortune. Aims and Aids for Girls and Young Women On the Various Duties of Life, Physical, Intellectual, And Moral Development; Self-Culture, Improvement, Dress, Beauty, Fashion, Employment, Education, The Home Relations, Their Duties To Young Men, Marriage, Womanhood And Happiness. We have been living in the lap of luxury lately. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 Poor old Trix! too bad that she should be left at home to bear the brunt, while we are living in the lap of luxury. The Fortunes of the Farrells Surely, the child of the palace, reared in the lap of luxury and with her hands in the mother's jewel-box, could not have been happier or more triumphant in her bearing. The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer The former would have preferred a profession, as conferring higher social distinction; the latter would have shrunk from seeing one nursed in the lap of luxury go forth to encounter the hardships of a pioneer. Evenings at Donaldson Manor Or, The Christmas Guest His thesis was that the northland battle needed alleviation in the narrow lap of luxury where vice ruled supreme. The Triumph of John Kars A Story of the Yukon We are still living in the lap of luxury and are a most happy family. The New York Times Current History, A Monthly Magazine The European War, March 1915 And our house is the Maire's Château, the palatial one, so we shall live in the lap of luxury as never before in this country! Diary of a Nursing Sister on the Western Front, 1914-1915 Babette's friend had been reared in the lap of luxury until a woeful year in the City made her father a bankrupt, and sent her to earn her living as a teacher of singing. The Empire Annual for Girls, 1911 It’s an honor to have the opportunity to help people who are living under circumstances that make mine seem like the lap of luxury. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town He had been a fixture in a certain lap of luxury. The Courage of Marge O'Doone He had been reared in the lap of luxury, had run away from college where he had been installed by a rich uncle, his guardian, and jumped down to South America. The Last Spike And Other Railroad Stories He was nursed in the lap of luxury, and never knew the cold and hunger of life. The Great German Composers She has been born and cradled in the lap of luxury, and I was a born fool to ask the question.' The Guinea Stamp A Tale of Modern Glasgow "Dandled in the lap of luxury, he does not hesitate to descend from it to espouse the immortal cause of popular rights." Trumps It seemed to the shiftless one that he lay in the very lap of luxury, in the very best of worlds. The Free Rangers A Story of the Early Days Along the Mississippi If they are green turtle," he continued, "we are in the lap of luxury. The Wings of the Morning The woman, sir this arrogant, this supercilious damsel, cradled in gold and satin, and bred in the glossy lap of luxury—died—rotted on a dunghill. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine — Volume 54, No. 335, September 1843 It must not be imagined from the foregoing that all the officers arrived on special trains and were themselves in the lap of luxury. The Story of The American Legion Her parents had both died two years previously, leaving her homeless and destitute, after having been reared in the lap of luxury. True Love's Reward All that afternoon we "lingered in the lap of luxury," as "Bill" put it. A Gunner Aboard the "Yankee" Fricasseed kitten is all very well for people who have been reared in the lap of luxury, and tenderly nurtured; but neither of these half-clad Kan-kiang navigators was born with the traditional silver spoon. Around the World on a Bicycle - Volume II From Teheran To Yokohama When a phrase like 'the lap of luxury' catches the eye, the mind relaxes but is not rested; for we are wearied, without exercise, by commonplace. Society for Pure English, Tract 11 Three Articles on Metaphor Providence seems to have ordained that our young American doctors are not always reared in the lap of luxury and wealth as the fittest preparation for the trials, hardships and self-denials of their future lives. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 Yet sometimes a murmur rises like a summer zephyr even from the soft lap of luxury and ease. Twenty-One Days in India; and, the Teapot Series And now we see Mary seated in the lap of luxury, with soft gowns to wear, and peaches to eat and instant slaves at her beck. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 146, January 21, 1914 Could they consent to expose their fragile child, nursed as she had been in the lap of luxury and comfort, to all the evils and annoyances of poverty? The Mother's Recompense, Volume 2 A Sequel to Home Influence In the mansions of the rich," he declaimed positively; "in the lap of luxury. Ashton-Kirk, Investigator You know, Squire, I was raised rich, cradled in the lap of luxury. The Mystery of Metropolisville The little ragged sunburnt child of poverty may pluck the wayside flowers with as much freedom as the child of wealth, who is nurtured upon the lap of luxury and ease. Withered Leaves from Memory's Garland "I am not so sure," replied Mr. Watkins, "but even moderate comfort would be cruel to her, for she was born and has always lived in the lap of luxury." For Gold or Soul? The Story of a Great Department Store Was it outside that very house as I first set eyes upon him, rolling in the lap of luxury, when I was selling halfpenny ballads there for a living? Our Mutual Friend If it is added that the wife has been "nurtured in the lap of luxury," that is accepted as an additional extenuating circumstance. Theory of the Leisure Class But you must confess that you were born in the lap of luxury, yourself. Hard Times She could scarce be expected to have the fine aesthetic feelings of a highly educated woman reared in the lap of luxury. Brann the Iconoclast — Volume 10 I understand, Mother, and quite agree, but I'm disappointed about Meg, for I'd planned to have her marry Teddy by-and-by and sit in the lap of luxury all her days. Little Women I tell thee there is gold in store for me —not what you call money, nursed in the lap of luxury, and cradled on grains, and drinking in wealth from a thousand mash-tubs. The History of Pendennis, Volume 2 His Fortunes and Misfortunes, His Friends and His Greatest Enemy I was a pupil in the stern school of poverty from my earliest infancy, while Reginald was reared in the lap of luxury. Run to Earth A Novel Come, ma'am, you know you were born in the lap of luxury.' Hard Times Here I am in the very lap of luxury. Zenobia or, the Fall of Palmyra She was sick all the next day, and on Saturday went home, quite used up with her fortnight's fun and feeling that she had 'sat in the lap of luxury' long enough. Little Women How effeminate you gentlemen are!" cried Forester: "see what it is to be brought up in the lap of luxury. Tales and Novels — Volume 01 "We have, indeed, fallen into the lap of luxury," Mr. Goodenough said to Frank; and they followed the negro to his hut. By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War Brought up in the lap of luxury, he suddenly changed his whole manner of living, and his constitution bent itself to privation as well as to fatigue. Memoirs, Correspondence and Manuscripts of General Lafayette Certainly, nobody under the sun enjoyed complete happiness, but why did the plums always fall to the lot of those who were already sitting in the lap of luxury? Married I tell thee there is gold in store for me—not what you call money, nursed in the lap of luxury, and cradled on grains, and drinking in wealth from a thousand mash-tubs. The History of Pendennis "In such a lap of luxury as this, too!" said I, looking round at the glowing fire-place, the low, luxurious chairs, and all the rich and sumptuous fittings of the room. David Poindexter's Disappearance, and Other Tales As to the Phaeacians, living as they did in the lap of luxury, nothing is more natural than that they should have rejoiced in the dance. Works of Lucian of Samosata — Volume 02 So Salt found himself in the lap of luxury and one week of it so transformed him that at the end of it poor Pepper would hardly have known his mate. Peggy Stewart: Navy Girl at Home I have not been nursed in the lap of luxury. Struggling Upward, or Luke Larkin's Luck —So then, Cranly went on musingly, you were born in the lap of luxury. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man He reared me in the lap of luxury. Alonzo Fitz and Other Stories "You know most of the boys have got to paddle their own canoes when they leave us, and too much sitting in the lap of luxury will unfit them for it." Little Men Here was poor Uncle Billy toiling though the ditches, while his selfish partner was lolling in the lap of luxury in San Francisco! Stories in Light and Shadow I want ease and any amount of nursing in the lap of luxury. In a German Pension I should like to live in the lap of luxury a year, or six months, no matter! The Magic Skin |
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