I let him enjoy the luxury unannoyed; and after sucking out his last wreath, and heaving a profound sigh, he got up, and departed as solemnly as he came.
I'm not going to nurture her in luxury and idleness after Linton is gone.
There are likewise some single cells--hovels clustering under a wall, in which criminals who can afford to pay the jailer for them may enjoy the luxury of solitude.
It is excellent; but as these nests are brought from Sumatra and are very costly, it is only a luxury of the rich.
Each coolie takes his pipe of opium after his day's work, and each has a pot of tea kept always hot in a thickly wadded basket, a luxury which no Chinaman seems able to do without.
A life of ease and luxury is pictured by Seagull, and, as the climax of allurement, with “no more law than conscience, and not too much of eyther.
In this narrative is an account of tobacco twenty years before that luxury was introduced into England by Ralph Lane.
It was now that his love of luxury and splendour assumed its full dimensions.
Of all these visitations the shogun remained uninformed, and, in spite of them, luxury and extravagance marked the lives of the upper classes.
As an example of the luxury of the age, it may be mentioned that when the fifth shogun visited the Kaga baron, the latter had to find a sum of a million ryo to cover the expenses incidental to receiving such a guest.
When Shomu reigned at Nara, the Court in Changan had entered the phase of luxury and epicurism which usually preludes the ruin of a State.
As an instance of ludicrous luxury it may be mentioned that the timbers intended for the repair of the castle in Yedo were wrapped in wadded quilts when transported to the city from the forest.
As for Ieyoshi, his tenure of power is chiefly notable for the strenuous efforts made by his prime minister, Mizuno Echizen no Kami, to substitute economy for the costly luxury that prevailed.
Indeed, it may be said that Chinese dress and etiquette, introduced after the time of Kwammu were the main source of the luxury of the period.
We acquiesce in his approval of the deliciousness of new-made, unwashed butter, churned from sweet cream--a luxury which our southern friends never tasted.
Several times he thought of spurring on in advance, the sooner to enjoy the luxury of his mother's and sister's welcome; and then he changed his mind again.
The Comandante and Roblado could not restrain their dastard spirits from indulging in the luxury of revenge.
And if you had come, capitan, I could have given you a luxury to lunch upon.
So far, the wealth of the world increased; but the men who returned to riot in luxury and idleness did not stimulate enterprise.
He had no craving for riches like Rubens, no love of luxury like Raphael, no envy like Da Vinci.
Sorrow which sits with folded hands, like the sisters of Lazarus, and lets duties drift, that it may indulge in the luxury of unrestrained tears, is sinful.
No doubt, the luxuryand splendour of Solomon's brilliant reign had an under side of oppression, even though forced labour was not exacted from Israelites (1 Kings ix.
Luxury at home and niggardliness in God's work make an ugly pair, but, alas!
It brought new ideas and much wealth; but it brought, too, luxury and idolatry.
The fact that some quail remain in India throughout the hot weather, and are able to breed successfully, shows that their migration is a luxury rather than a necessity.
One species only visits that country; hence Indians may indulge in theluxury of speaking of it as the wryneck.
Is it good to have a man used to such luxury as I have been fleeing through these rocky underground hills merely because he committed theft in order to retain his self-respect?
Very few people could now afford the luxury of a full suit; and since the upper half of the body could not be covered with a garment, it was covered with paint--the paint being usually of a color to match or harmonize with the kirtle.
Nearly every French printer and publisher of any note indulges in the luxury of a Mark of some sort, and an interesting volume might be written concerning modern continental examples.
By the end of 1472 the three companions had issued thirty works, apparently without indulging in the luxury of a Mark, but their patrons separating they had to leave the Sorbonne.
Exhausted by the struggle, she panted for the rest and luxury of a companionship in which both brain and heart could find sympathy.
He gave the scapegrace everyluxury and indulgence, and, self-absorbed as he was in an ideal sphere, felt the deepest interest in all the most trivial things that concerned him.
Starr heard the prodigious yawn of the awakening Vic, who slept behind a screen in the kitchen, bedrooms being a superfluous luxury in which Johnny Calvert had not indulged himself.
Whereas they made Holman Sommers look like a great man indulging himself in the luxury of old clothes on a holiday.
It wasn't love of luxury, at least not if luxury meant physical self-indulgence.
This room did duty as a museum of certain objects, such as are never seen but in this kind of amphibious household; nameless objects with the stamp at once of luxury and penury.
As he recognized the facts of his life as a child, the kind young fellow felt neither scorn for disguised misfortune nor pride in the luxury he had lately conquered for his mother.
He who studies the ancient sources, however, with but a little of the critical spirit, is easily convinced that we have made for ourselves out of the much-famed corruption and Roman luxury a notion highly romantic and exaggerated.
At all events, our age develops fast, and notwithstanding all this waste, abounds in a plenty that is enough to keep men from fearing the growth of this wanton luxury and from planning to restrain it by laws.
Indulgence in the luxury of jewels looked almost like high treason.
Luxury could thus be gratified with greater show at the cost of fewer dangers.
It is not mirth, or beauty, or luxury that fires the historian, but death.
Let it once decay at the heart, and its good work and good thoughts will become subtle luxury and aimless sophism; and it and they will perish together.
Nor must I omit the luxury of having beautiful flowers from the greenhouse throughout the winter; these superfluous items did not figure in our accounts.
Those only who have lived in the country can appreciate the luxury of not only having fruit and vegetables in abundance, but of having them fresh.
We have been pitied for being always employed, and told that we can never know the luxury of leisure.
The luxury of a good garden can hardly be appreciated till you have been in possession of one, more especially where there are many children.
This had called forth some bitter comments from his parents: What right had he to comfort and to something approaching luxury before he had cleared off his debts?
He began to be laughed at; and, gossip taking a hand, his glorious luxury was attributed to the generosity of an elderly Englishwoman, Lady Anelsy, whose lucky favourite he was supposed to be.
She'd had a good husband, and all the comfort and luxury that anybody could have--and how could it be called anything but a happy life?
In all the wild orgy of wastefulness and luxury with which the nineteenth century reaches its close, the gilded youth has been surely the worst symptom.
No matter how prosperous they were, they could not spend money either upon "art," or upon mere luxury and entertainment, without a sense of sin.
From the gold-mines there, worked by slave labor, came a large share of the riches and luxury of the Roman Empire.
In every case, also, that same possession led to luxury and decline.
The mines of Arabia, Egypt, and Spain were in their hands, and the luxury of such Moorish towns as Granada was made possible by the final workings of the almost exhausted alluvial deposits of Spain.
