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Example sentences for "lavished"

Lexicographically close words:
laverocks; lavers; laves; laving; lavish; lavishes; lavishing; lavishly; lavishness; law
  1. Observe even the decoration lavished on the beautiful chimneys.

  2. Much of the denunciation which he and his followers lavished upon Hamilton was unjust, and much of the fight which they put up against his measures was contrary to the public welfare.

  3. Not even an American can over-emphasize the importance of proper teaching during youth; and the only wonder is that the money so freely lavished on it does not produce better results.

  4. As a result of this," Arrian writes, "the entire army was reinvigorated to so great a degree that any one would have imagined that the water so lavished had furnished draught for every man.

  5. She then moved away her head to conceal her tears; and, taking his hand in hers, she talked to him of hope and happiness; and assured him that she would endeavour to return the affection he had lavished on her so liberally.

  6. It must be hard for aristocratic parents who have lavished every care upon a son, and cherished for him the highest hopes, when he turns from the women of his own order to one considered beneath him in station.

  7. Marian lavished on him all the rich, womanly love of her heart.

  8. Look how money has been lavished here for the last four weeks!

  9. The most liberal hospitality was lavished in the abbey on all travellers of every rank; women only were excluded; and precise rules specified the manner of the reception of strangers according to their rank and quality.

  10. Rechberg had listened to the proclamation, and would have pursued his journey, but the dense crowd forced him to remain and hear the imprecations lavished upon the Emperor, as soon as Hesso was out of sight.

  11. May it not be lavished to support that power, to which our grants have too long contributed?

  12. Indiscriminate praise was lavished on good and bad work alike.

  13. On him above all others Lucan has lavished all his powers; and he has succeeded in creating a character of such real moral grandeur that, in spite of its hardness and austerity, it almost succeeds in winning our affection (ii.

  14. For all the wealth of detail that Statius has lavished on them, they are featureless.

  15. Queen Christina and her uncle, the ex-king of the French, be repaid the sums they lavished to oust Espartero, and to bring about the infamous Spanish marriages?

  16. To the right were two bedrooms and to the left the tiny kitchen and pantry, but it was on the living-room that Gordon had lavished all his care.

  17. The poor old woman had taken him to her heart, and {195} she lavished kindness on him.

  18. They lavished every kind attention on their guests and kept them three days.

  19. The simple and kindly natives lavished hospitality on the strangers.

  20. He was an indulgent father, and had lavished uncounted sums upon his children.

  21. The love of right, the abhorrence of falsehood, a rare combination of generous affections, constituted the womanly heart to which nature, in a happy mood, lavished all the virtues of one sex and all the powers of the other.

  22. Favor and not merit too often decided promotion, and lavished command.

  23. The latter, rejecting the honors and distinctions lavished on their neighbors, secured their national independence, by trusting to their industry alone for all the advantages they gradually acquired.

  24. Fair promises and fine words were thus lavished in profusion to gain the confidence of the deputies.

  25. Spring adorned the beauty-burdened spray; Wind and rain and fervent heat, caressing, Lavished glory on that second May!

  26. Yet not the least interesting feature of her correspondence is the evidence it affords that she was gradually gaining that knowledge of character which was afterwards to be lavished upon her books.

  27. I have lavished the warmest affections of a very hot, tenacious heart upon you.

  28. We were childless, and as time went on, we lavished upon him all the love which we should have bestowed upon our own children had we been happy enough to have any.

  29. The cabinet usher immediately raised him up, and committed him to the care of his aide-de-camp, who lavished on him every attention which his sad condition demanded.

  30. As a man he admired the dignity, perfect propriety, and extreme discretion of Madame de Montesquieu; and as a father he felt an infinite gratitude for the cares she lavished on his son.

  31. All those flowers lavished on the fetes of the King of Rome and his august mother covered an abyss, and all this enthusiasm was changed to mourning a few months later.

  32. You remember that rascally priest at San Paolo, who seemed to have become friendly to us, and on whom we lavished so much sympathy and kindness?

  33. She was full of gratitude for the many attentions the captain had lavished upon her during the terrible storm, and by no means repulsed the signs of sympathy, loyal and honest, if not courtly, which the gallant sailor manifested.

  34. One of the chief imported luxuries of the degenerate Romans were the thermae, or baths, edifices upon which immense sums were lavished to make them beautiful and commodious in the extreme.

  35. And pleasant he found it to receive shelter after such a wild night; so that the wanderer was once more safe and indeed happy in his friend's house, where a thousand cares and attentions were lavished on him.

  36. Various individuals tried to find the pellet, but all were unsuccessful, till at last considerable dissatisfaction was expressed, and the terms rogue and cheat were lavished upon him.

  37. I now devoted almost the whole of my time to my father, on whom his faithful partner also lavished every attention and care.

  38. This son, on whom Goethe vainly lavished so much thought and care, was like his mother, and like Goethe's attachment for his mother.

  39. All attentions, all signs of willing confidence, are lavished on him in vain.

  40. Knowing but one style of making a book beautiful, they lavished much time and loving care to achieve their end.

  41. The beautiful lower cover of the Gospels of Lindau, now in Mr. Pierpont Morgan's treasure-house, proves that at least as early as the seventh century the Irish lavished as much art on the outside of their manuscripts as upon the inside.

  42. Mr. Hawkehurst had secured this delightful abode for a considerable term of years, and upon the furnishing and decoration of the pretty rustic rooms Charlotte and he lavished unmeasured care.

  43. Such love was lavished on him as rarely falls to the lot of children, though the spring of many lives may be rich in love's pure white blossom.

  44. I next entered a valley containing the consolation which has been lavished in vain upon those stubborn people who will not cease to be unhappy at the desire of a friend.

  45. Ellen wept violently, regardless of the caresses and soothing words which her old friend lavished upon her.

  46. He lavished the tenderest kindness upon her, and without going back by so much as a hint to the subjects of the morning, he exerted himself to direct her attention to the various objects of note and interest they were passing.

  47. To an imagination so vivid as his, the possession of an extended scale was a priceless opportunity; and he has used it to fill his work with incident and adventure as varied and brilliant as were ever lavished by the hand of Scott or Dumas.


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