Ptolemy Soter was plain in his manners, and scarcely surpassed his own generals in the costliness of his way of life.
By magnificence it must not be supposed, however, that I allude to costliness of furniture or any kind of luxury which pervaded the culinary department.
I have seen the royal dock-yards of Russia and England, but, for grandeur of design and costliness of execution, they cannot for a moment compare with these wonderful monuments of the bygone naval pomp of Spain.
This was, in fact, a fashionable part of the City: and here the premier Earl of England held his court, almost rivalling that of the sovereign in costliness and magnificence.
Even dress, until of late years, did not furnish a distinction, excepting, in a slight degree, by the costliness of the materials.
On the other hand, mere costliness does not constitute the soul of a present; on the contrary, it has the commercial and unflattering effect of repayment for value received.
Some time ago considerable attention was directed to the subject by some letters which appeared in one of the leading journals of the day, in which grave reflections were made upon the exceeding costliness of dress at the present time.
On the other hand, mere costliness does not constitute the soul of a present.
The prevailing feature throughout is the lavish costliness and luxury of these collections, several of which exceed ten thousand volumes.
What may be accounted prodigality in the costlinessof apparel?
One way of sinful wastefulness is, In pampering the belly in excess, curiosity, or costliness of meat or drink, of which I have spoken, chap.
The special attractiveness of these book-products to the book-buyer of cultivated taste lies, of course, not in a conscious, naive recognition of their costliness and superior clumsiness.
This habit of making obvious costliness a canon of serviceability of course acts to enhance the aggregate cost of articles of consumption.
The superior gratification derived from the use and contemplation of costly and supposedly beautiful products is, commonly, in great measure a gratification of our sense of costliness masquerading under the name of beauty.
It may be an excess in the costliness or price; when men feed themselves at too high rates.
Be sure to avoid excess of costliness in your apparel.
Many instances are recorded of the costliness of the attire of these Roman ladies.
Some of these were marvellous, not only for their dimensions, but also for the costliness of the material and the artistic decorations.
In all this vast array, the corps which stood at the head, in respect to their rank and the costliness and elegance of their equipment, was a Persian squadron of ten thousand men, called the Immortals.
The extraordinary costliness of these fragrant blossoms[171] has caused a very general suspicion to prevail, that the leaves thus "scented" are afterwards adulterated with large quantities of the common teas.
Such is the costliness of the provincial system and of Maori wars, that the taxation of the New Zealanders is nine times as heavy as that of their brother colonists in Canada.
The costliness of the federal government of New Zealand is a warning against over-hasty confederation.
I have seen the royal dockyards of Russia and England, but for grandeur of design and costliness of execution, they cannot for a moment compare with these wonderful monuments of the bygone naval pomp of Spain.
By magnificence it must not be supposed, however, that I allude to costliness of furniture, or any kind of luxury which pervaded the culinary department.
Indeed, the beauty of such ornaments as these seldom has any relation to the costliness of them.
The other cause which renders wages and the cost of labor no real criteria of one another is the varying costliness of the articles which the laborer consumes.
The costliness of the most costly part of the produce of cultivation is an exact expression of the state, at any given moment, of the race which population and agricultural skill are always running against each other.
If the costlinessof the material offered no temptation to the avarice of man, still, after centuries have given them the stamp of antiquity, these urns and their contents become precious, in the eyes of the lovers of vertu.
So also the second law--"Let all costliness and excessive waitings be banished from funerals.
Similar instances of ruinous luxury we may find in the prodigal costliness of dress through the reigns of Elizabeth, James the First, and Charles the First.
DRESS, costliness of, in the reigns of Elizabeth, James I.
See the article on Court Masques in the early pages of the present volume for notices of the elaborate splendour and costliness of these favourite displays.
To the untrained observer size often appeals more than proportion andcostliness than suitability.
Still, as has been said, costliness is no test of merit in an age when large prices are paid for bad things.
Suitability of substance always enhances a work of art; mere costliness never.
As it usually adjoined the bedroom, it was decorated in the same manner, and even when its appointments were expensive all appearance of costliness was avoided.
The true artist thinks less of the costliness of the material of which he forms his works than of the art-effect produced.
Silk, as a material, also conveys to the mind an idea of costliness or worth, and wherever the material does so the pattern may be richer in colour than it should be in cheaper and commoner fabrics.
Before he had demonstrated his professional capacity, the habitual costliness and delicacy of his attire roused the distrust of attorneys, and on more than one occasion wrought him injury.
In costliness and riotous excess the Prince of Purpoole's revel at Gray's Inn was not inferior to any similar festivity in the time of Elizabeth.
Simplicity and exquisitely fresh neatness and daintiness are to a man more attractive than any extravagance of fashion or costliness of material.
He does not care for costliness of apparel, but he is always attracted by freshness and daintiness.
James Hamilton, Sir George's eldest son, was remarkable for the symmetry of his figure, elegance of his manner, and costliness of his dress.
The perfection and costliness to which the costume eventually reached is best shown by a description of Sir Richard Fanshaw ambassador of the king, as presented in the diary of his spouse.
The costliness and splendour of some royal entertainments require the description of an eye-witness to be fully realized.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "costliness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
