And throwing back his head, with a dreamy expression in his eyes, he moved his protruding jaw covered with reddish hair, with a voluptuous look, as though he were sipping a glass of his sweet native Tokay.
Then a sweet voice, supported by others more harsh, began a prayer that had the voluptuous rhythm of an Italian serenade.
If he was ever justified in giving vent to that flowery, voluptuous grace for which Italian music is blamed, is it not in this charming movement in which each person expresses joy?
The one represented the male, the other the female principle; they were the authors of all fecundity, and as a consequence the worship of the divine couple often assumed a sensual and voluptuous character.
But at the moment she looked the picture of voluptuous abandon.
A man who has spent three days without eating or sleeping is almost incapable of any voluptuous excitement, but mere words would not have convinced these priestesses of Venus if Edgar had not given them my name.
There was in this perfect harmony a concert of color to which the soul responded with vague and voluptuous and fluctuating ideas.
Henri saw Paquita before him, but Paquita in all her womanly and voluptuous glory.
Like an eagle darting on his prey, he took her utterly to him, set her on his knees, and felt with an indescribable intoxication the voluptuous pressure of this girl, whose richly developed beauties softly enveloped him.
Ever since I have studied women, my incognita is the only one whose virginal bosom, whose ardent and voluptuous forms, have realized for me the only woman of my dreams --of my dreams!
She creates for herself an ideal existence beside which all reality grows pale; she at once attempts to realize this voluptuous life, to take to herself the magic which she sees in it.
Metternich prolongs his statu quo; but we would advise you to do so with more tact and with still more tenderness; for your wife is more crafty than all the Germans put together, and as voluptuous as the Italians.
Blachevelle smiled with the voluptuous fatuity of a man whose self-esteem is tickled.
Both afforded the occasion for displaying technical skill in fluent forms, devoid of any but voluptuous feeling; while both might be subordinated to rich effects of decoration.
The celebrated Concert of the Louvre Gallery, so charming for its landscape and so voluptuous in its dreamy sense of Arcadian luxury, is given by Crowe and Cavalcaselle to an imitator of Sebastian del Piombo.
Lorenzo deliberately set himself to enfeeble the people by luxury, partly because he liked voluptuous living, partly because he aimed at popularity, and partly because it was his interest to enervate republican virtues.
Brightness and darkness are woven together on his figures like an impalpable veil, aërial and transparent, enhancing the palpitations of voluptuous movement which he loved.
The habits of the day, voluptuous yet hardy, fostered this one-sided development of the arts; while the asceticism of the Middle Ages had yielded to a pagan cult of sensuality.
To steal the lustre from her sparkling eye; And in thy circling movements hover near, To murmur tender secrets in her ear; Or, as she coyly waves her hand, to sip Voluptuous nectar from her lower lip!
With each voluptuous art they strove To win the tenant of the grove, And with their graceful forms inspire His modest soul with soft desire.
He revelled in abbatial stuffs, voluptuous silks, in the sombre gilding of old brocade.
The incongruity between the woman who cried with voluptuoussuffering in her letters and the woman he had seen, so thoroughly mistress of herself in her coquetries, was truly too much!
He completely lost control of himself before this voluptuous and plaintive face, but with a firm gesture she freed her hands.
And sacrilege carries one out of oneself in furious transports, in voluptuous delirium, which nothing can equal.
And she is lovely, of the charming and voluptuous turn so pleasing men; with that virginal flower of candor which imposes respect on women themselves.
He writes of "the voluptuous imagination which the King had inherited from his father.
With this end in view she involved them in the grossest dissipation, and strove to keep them in a perpetual whirl ofvoluptuous intoxication.
To hold Henry spell-bound in the power of her fascinations, she spread around him all the voluptuous allurements of sensual pleasure.
The apartments of this voluptuous abode were embellished with all the appurtenances of Oriental luxury.
The thousands of little elegancies which Europe, Asia, and Africa had contributed to minister to the voluptuous splendors of the regal mansion, were speedily transferred to the knapsacks of the soldiers.
Her thoughts caressed the voluptuous image of that balmy isle.
Then a long-drawn exclamation of voluptuous appreciation.
Adelaida is plump, and her voice has just that moist, plangent strength which gives one a real voluptuous thrill.
He drank in all the soft voluptuous influences of a climate which steeps the senses in a luxurious stupor, making the commonest existence a toil, but giving to mere indolence all the zest of a rich enjoyment.
Entertainments that surpassed those of the Pitti Palace in splendor, fetes that cost fabulous sums, banquets voluptuous as those of ancient Rome, were things of weekly occurrence.
His style, rich of itself, is enriched to repletion by conceits, and sometimes by voluptuous sentiments and language.
He may be called the English Anacreon, and resembles the Greek poet, not only in graceful, lively, and voluptuouselegance and richness, but also in that deeper sentiment which often underlies the lighter surface of his verse.
I accepted these voluptuous customs; the indulgent night more than once heard our sighs mingle with those of the sea which came to break its perfumed waves at our feet.
I found again in this sombre Roman genius something of the voluptuoushabit of mind that ennobled Epicurus, a similar desire of knowledge, and at the same time a respect for the secret movements of life.
Does the visit of a dove to the loveliest of the Jewish women differ so much from the visit of the swan to the voluptuous Leda?
Two young slaves left the voluptuous gardens, in which their master had brought them up, to execute his vengeance.
