She pinched herself to the verge of want in order to send large sums of money to the missionaries, but she saved the captain's money for him against the time when his willful lavishness and improvidence might find him a poor man.
This lavishness served to stimulate cupidity, and every day the Bedawin brought in specimens from half a dozen different places.
Higher again, upon a terreplein, are lines of tanks laid out with all that lavishness of labour which distinguishes similar works in Syria: it is, however, difficult to assign any date to these constructions.
The very lavishness of her gift brought to him irresistibly the reminder of another offering.
One result of the lavishness and luxury that amazed them they wrote--had been to raise the standard of culture of the women, who were our leisure class.
And some times my lavishness had frightened her, as when we had taken the suite of rooms we now occupied.
But the travellers did not remain long enough to arrive at any conclusions of value on the effect of luxury and lavishness on the sacred institution of marriage.
The spacious gaiety and lavishness of its marts enchanted me.
More and more startled, as I went along, by the princely lavishness of every arrangement, I ventured to surmise that it must all cost a great deal.
To dream you cut your hair close to the scalp, denotes that you will be generous to lavishness towards a friend.
To come under the influence of absinthe in dreams, denotes that you will lead a merry and foolish pace with innocent companions, and waste your inheritance in prodigal lavishness on the siren, selfish fancy.
The kings on their side showed their lavishness in furnishing victims for the sacrifice.
In the upper classes the lavishness of a new wealth combined with a lavishness of life, a love of beauty, of colour, of display, to revolutionize English dress.
The very lavishness of finish and of detail, the heaped-up exaggerations of refinement and civilization, bring out the more the simplicity and quiet of the nature about them.
Can it bring out still more the lavishness of refinement, which wells up as if exhaustless?
The royal palace was decorated with superb splendor and regallavishness of display.
With characteristic lavishnesshe said to Belasco: "We must have the finest scenic production ever made in New York.
Up to this time there were some who believed that, despite the lavishness of his policy, there was the germ of the commercial in him.
He found the friend a little put out by the unexpected lavishness of the manner in which the poetic enterprise had been carried on.
It seemed as if in her person, was accumulated thelavishness of French Royal mistresses from Diane de Poitiers down to Madame Dubarry.
Nature is willing to meet men more than half way, even in Spain, but will not pour out there her products with the lavishness which characterizes her in the low latitudes.
French lavishness in mirrors and clocks,--all for two hundred francs a month, which was hardly more than they had paid for the dreary Grosvenor Street lodgings in London.
The latitude allowed to the worker; the lavishness and ingenuity displayed in the stitches employed; in short, the vivid expression of the worker's individuality, form a great part of the success of needlework.
The advantage of wool over silk in cost is obvious, and renders it suitable for the commoner uses of life, where lavishness would be out of place.
The whole of the massive altar decoration is solid silver, wrought in Salamanca, and the candlesticks and ornaments around are of the same metal, which has been used with the lavishness of iron.
She is exceptionally fortunate in the lavishness of Nature's provision of safe and beautiful harbours for her fleet's accommodation.
Lavishness of expenditure, indeed, is one of the characteristics of the Mondariz Hydro, and only by the adoption of such a bold policy could the present great results have been attained.
It is not so much the subject as the work itself which will awe and fascinate the visitor: there is so much prodigality of labour, such lavishness of design, such an amazing whole contained in so limited a space.
