The contrast of all this semi-tropical luxuriousness with its snow-capped Alpine background is not its least remarkable feature.
He had a certainluxuriousness of temperament, not in matters of meat and drink, but in the surroundings and apparatus of life.
His fear had been once that perhaps he was great, and that indolence and luxuriousnessalone held him back from exercising that greatness.
The frame, braced by wintry cold, revelled in the outburst of warmth, of light, of life; and yet the very luxuriousness of the sensation brought with it a languor and a weariness that was akin rather to death than life.
Antwerp received, in the sixteenth century, the trade which the luxuriousness of the Flemish towns had banished; and under the government of Charles V.
Jupiter and Semele, with its colossal and acrian architectures, its gigantic figure of the god, from whose august head emanate spokes of light, is Byzantine of a wild luxuriousness in pattern and fancy.
The lowlands of Moray have long been celebrated for mildness and luxuriousness of climate, and also for a certain dryness of atmosphere, which seems to have some intimate connexion with the mournful calamity about to be described.
Together they would see events slipping by them with the cruel luxuriousness of those who, from an inaccessible height, contemplate a flood without the slightest risk to themselves.
Four automobiles completed the luxuriousness of the family.
To him these are innocuous days of ease, in which we are falling into luxuriousness with all its weakening influence.
Thus a check is given to luxuriousness and the Eskimo is self-prevented from falling into the fate which overtook Rome.
They really liked it, really loved the intricacy and luxuriousness of it, the heavy exotic language, the thickly painted descriptions, the languorous melody of the verse.
It was a small house, situated on the censor's lands in the Sabine country, where the luxuriousnessof the city was unknown.
Roman ladies had in no wise acquired that luxuriousness with which they afterward became characterized.
They had to fight the Christian warfare amid the soft luxuriousness of Corinth, a luxuriousness which relaxed the moral fibre, and made the Corinthians conspicuous for their depravity, "even amid all the depraved cities of a dying heathenism.
