The French are an ancient and opulent people; and their language and manners, though somewhat different, are not dissimilar from those of the Italians.
Cantacuzene instantly signed his treaty with the Venetians; but the weight of the Roman empire was scarcely felt in the balance of these opulentand powerful republics.
The more adventurous embraced without dishonor the profession of a soldier: the least active and opulent might sink, like their cousins of the branch of Dreux, into the condition of peasants.
Large, protruding eyes and an opulent bust complete a presentment of the typical household drudge--"a servant-girl in a German inn.
The father, of whom I have little to say, was an opulent man.
It had a sort of opulentand rakish violence which suited her ripe magnificence, her splendid flesh tints, her brown eyes and corn-gold hair.
Spiritual simplicity has received no loftier tribute than from the most opulent and complex poetic intellect of our day.
South-east of the Aegean was situated the opulent Rhodes, the handsomest and strongest port in the Mediterranean, provided with fine harbour buildings, a seat of learning, and so full of art that it contained no less than 3000 statues.
Alexander had founded the city of Alexandria, and soon that great and opulent city became more the home of Greek science and literature than Athens itself.
It is not enough for the opulent parents whose sons are sent to college, to send them to a Catholic college and pay a high price for their instruction.
The opulent and influential laity are therefore bound to take an active part in the work.
If she marry a man of good fortune, she will wear them for my sake: if she do not marry an opulent husband, I hope she will sell the jewels without scruple, as they are intended for her convenience, and not as an ostentatious bequest.
His own father, an opulent merchant, on his death-bed requested that his son, who was then about eighteen, might be immediately sent to England for the advantages of a European education.
In view of what has been and is, can anyone call it a Utopian dream to picture the Pacific bordered by an advanced civilization with cities more brilliant than any of the ancient East, more opulent than any of the cultured West?
The opulent farmer, on the same quantity of ground, will invariably raise more produce than the cottager can pretend to do.
He was hot and heavy in his momentary anger, but even that could not conceal the noble though opulent outline of his face and body, the florid white hair, the Roman nose, the body stalwart though corpulent, the chin aristocratic though double.
They were undoubtedly different kinds of dyed leather, of which shoes were made for princes and opulent persons.
More opulent persons soon followed their example; many bequeathed large sums for this benevolent purpose; and Toledo, the viceroy, who drove the Jews from the kingdom, supported it by every method possible.
This person used a knife, the only one placed on the table, and which in the houses of the opulent had an ivory handle, and was commonly ornamented with silver[1012].
His father was an opulent merchant and sent him to England for an education.
The English under Edward III, captured theopulent city of Caen, in France, and pillaged the country around.
It needed more vitality than went with true comfort to deal with a house in an opulentspot and a Rolls-Royce.
So well off was she that, had she so chosen, she could have lived in an opulent part of London and driven from it and to it in a Rolls-Royce.
James repeated to himself the conversations they had had, of no consequence, the idle gossip of a stray half-hour; but each word was opulent in the charming smile, in the caressing glance of her eyes.
Finally, the beauty swept in with a great rustle of silk, displaying to the full her very opulent charms.
Holland Rose's book * (* He who turns to it without reading it through will miss an opulent source of profit and pleasure.
In fact, he commanded a fleet of opulent merchantmen, the best of which, by the mere use of brushes and pots of paint, and by the hoisting of a few yards of official bunting, were made to resemble fighting ships.
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