He dipped a lavish hand into his abundant wealth and scattered his gold where it was of the greatest service.
What we find harder to excuse is his shrewd advancement of his own interests and his lavish expenditure of the Company's money.
They are all most striking individualities, however, ranging all the way from freaks to heroes; and it is the individuality which they lavish on the rendering of their chansons that constitutes their drawing power.
She was lavish with flowers to the sick--although Clayton paid her florist bills.
He had, like Antony, suffered agonies from the coquetry she would lavish on any one she wanted to win.
Having treated with, and received lavish promises from, both parties, he appears to have hoped for the dignity for himself; but when the election came he turned to the winning side and voted for Charles.
By his luxurious habits and his lavish expenditure on public buildings he piled up a great accumulation of debt, which was partly discharged by the estates of the land in return for important concessions.
His large schemes and lavish expenditure alarmed however the parsimonious directors of the West India company, but John Maurice refused to retain his post unless he was given a free hand, and he returned to Europe in July 1644.
His men clamoured against the lavish way in which Gordon distributed what should have been their rations amongst the families of the besiegers, but it was of no avail.
The business goes on perhaps for a year, the Arab is content and lavish in his praises, but he is not aware that the cook has paid him his share of the profits out of the original money he put into the concern.
Wealthy men offer lavish gifts, in the hope of immunity from plunder, and Omar Kesha, in addition to his generosity on this occasion, does not fail to frequently offer valuable gifts to Yakub.
The gentleman prefaced his arguments by observing, "that it had latterly become the fashion to eulogize the Constitution of the United States; and that whenever he heard lavish encomiums applied to it, he could not help apprehending mischief.
I stopped for dinner at a house, the lavish hospitality of which had been a byword in the old days.
It is still known as their home, though Vicksburg now claims the daughter of the house, and only in the summers are the doors opened again for that lavish hospitality for which the old place was noted.
The daughter of the house was carefully educated, and as she neared womanhood Mrs. Johnstone had a new home built, the present Annandale, and the same lavish hospitality was continued.
There was a great deal of the epicure in Matt Space, and had he been a Roman emperor he might have been as lavish in the recorded worship of the gastric region.
Friends wondered somewhat why the prim merchant took such pains to lavish on his daughter the worldly accomplishments which seemed to give him no pleasure, and of which he never spoke with pride.
It is true, however, that even yet on the countenance there lingered the trace of that lavish favour bestowed on it by nature.
That lavish mode of life renewed with the dawning sun!
I imagined the man would rejoice at what I told him, open his pursestrings, lavish blessings and bank-notes.
In Lilian, the sympathy with Nature was not, as in Margrave, from the joyous sense of Nature's lavish vitality; it was refined into exquisite perception of the diviner spirit by which that vitality is informed.
When at Derval Court his house had been filled with gay companions, and was the scene of lavish hospitality; but the estate was not in proportion to the grandeur of the mansion, still less to the expenditure of the owner.
Grayle declared that he had already derived unspeakable relief from the remedies administered; he was lavish in expressions of gratitude; pressed large gifts on Haroun, and seemed pained when they were refused.
The ordeal over at last, Herr Deichenberg was even more lavish in his praise of Dorothy's work.
A bystander, observing the hugs and kisses they bestowed upon each other, might well have wondered who they were, to be so lavish with their affection.
Few men equalled Coleridge in the matter of prompt readiness of retort, and few have so misused the lavishgifts of Providence.
These were to visit the fireside of the humble, and lavish the treasures of the intellect upon the poor.
At one time he would resort to all manner of expedients to dodge his creditors and escape arrest for debt, at another scattering gold with the most lavish and inconsiderate hand.
It is difficult to understand why Pope should have assumed this small virtue of economy and yet often have been lavish in other directions; indeed, it may be questioned whether it was intended to be an act of economy.
During this campaign, without being toolavish of the cross of honor, his Majesty presented it on several occasions to those of the inhabitants who were foremost in resisting the enemy.
This lavish expenditure, which is admirable from one point of view, might have suited any other sovereign; but the Emperor was economical, and though, much attached to M.
All were eager to lavish every attention on them; and I admit that I have always regretted not having inquired the names of these two brave grenadiers, who inspired in all of us an interest I cannot describe.
He chose, and he was deceived; he trusted, and he was betrayed: the most deserving of the faithful became useless or hostile to his government, and his lavishbounty was productive only of ingratitude and discontent.
The winning of this pure young heart, the possession of this sweet and winsome nature, the lavish homage of this fresh and fervent love should steel his hitherto vagrant fancy against all would-be-willing victims.
Therefore, the sextette of officers that had been but lukewarm at the start became lavish in cordiality at the close.
Henry Hart's improvidence is ascribed, in part, by those who knew him, to the irregular manner in which his father supplied him with money, Bernard Hart being sometimes very lavish and sometimes very parsimonious with his son.
As an illustration of the lavish manner in which business was transacted, it may be mentioned that the stamp box in the express office of Wells, Fargo and Company was a sort of common treasury.
When they knew, that a great number of Frenchmen remained prisoners with the conqueror, they were eager to offer, and to lavish on them, consolation and assistance.
If they had bestowed on me what they lavish on him, I would have saved France.
I had this daughter left To lavish all my wealth on and my might.
The President, as already stated, had by the lavish use of the pardoning power signalized his change on the subject of Reconstruction.
Little thinking that he makes as bad use of those natural benefits, as he is lavish of his mony.
What inexhaustible pastures, what an abundance of that savoury grass, the tussock, does nature lavish on animals there!
At the moment of Arthur’s coming out of his swoon the faithful Tiger was licking his face and hands with lavish affection.
He had read one or two of the papers, and they had been disgustinglylavish in their praise of The McWhustle of McWhustle.
He was as lavish a man with the money he was going to get next week as ever borrowed a five-pound note to see him through till Saturday.
