" The girls in the wings were rapturous in their enthusiasm, and were calling her absurdly extravagant titles of endearment, and making so much noise that Kripps stopped grinning at her from the entrance, and looked back over his shoulder as he looked when he threatened fines and calls for early rehearsal.

But you are either dreadfully and habitually extravagant or you believe I am.

Some of these stories are quaintly humorous; others wildly extravagant, revealing the Oriental cast of the negro's imagination; while others, poured freely into the sympathetic ear of a Northern-bred woman, disclose many a tragic incident of the darker side of slavery.

Anne Leffingwell deemed this criminally extravagant since the rental of a van must be prodigious.

You'd hardly think it, but she was downright extravagant, and always having slaps at me.

She was by nature an arrant flirtas most pretty women arefor she inherited her father's amorous disposition; and she was impulsive,an added charm where beauty reigns,worldly-minded, and dreadfully extravagant; moreover, she dressed to perfection.

From this humble position literally and socially he had proceeded, first to his feet, and then step by step, until, from one grade to another, he had amassed a large fortune, and sufficient income to enable him to incur, not only the expenses of an election and a seat in Parliament, but also those of a bitterly hostile election petition, enormously extravagant in every way.

She had never liked Horace Smithson, although he had given her tips which were almost a provision for her old age; but she had thought it a good thing that her mistress, who was frightfully extravagant, should marry a millionaire; and now they were sailing over the sea with a lot of coloured sailors, and the millionaire was left on shore.

" "You have been grossly extravagant, Mrs. Stevens," one heartless creditor returned.

And this farcical scene was considered so "grotesquely and absurdly extravagant" by Sir WALTER's contemporary critics (peace be to their hashes!

Pearl thought she was listening to the fanciful tales with which a lonely woman beguiled the weary hours for her little son It was a weirdly extravagant fairy story, and yet it fascinated Pearl in spite of it's unlikeness to truth.

She had the secret of stimulating in him what was poetic, and repressing what was merely extravagant or violent.

" Half an hour later he found himself shown into a smartly furnished office where Mr. Gavin Ramsay sat at a handsome desk surrounded by shelves and cabinets whereon and wherein were set out the products of the brains of many inventorsmodels of machines, mechanical toys, labour-saving notions, things plainly useful, things obviously extravagant.

He was outrageously extravagant and reckless in his expenditures, and then appealed to Parliament to pay his debts.

Apart from her social aspirations, Delphine was personally extravagant; and as the baron was miserly and only gave her a very scanty allowance, she visited the gambling dens of the Palais Royale to try and raise the money which she could no longer coax from her old father.

It was recklessly extravagant of me to do this, but there was no other course.

Our first plays, especially of the romantic type, were extremely crude and often led to ridiculously extravagant scenes; and here is where the classic drama exercised an immense influence for good, by insisting upon beauty of form and definiteness of structure at a time when the tendency was to satisfy a taste for stage spectacles without regard to either.

The sale of her diamonds, which seemed to her to have realized a singularly extravagant sum, enabled her to quietly reinstate the Pattersons in the tienda and to discharge in full her husband's liabilities to the rancheros and his humbler retainers.

The unfortunate child, doomed before her birth to suffer from the fatal bite of a rattlesnakean incident unduly extravagant in some critics' opinionsand only throwing off the evil influence on her death-bed, is one of the most pathetic figures in all American literature.

It was a true American review, utterly extravagant in its laudations, whether from over-kindness, or from a certain love of exaggeration and magniloquence, which makes one suspect that a large proportion of the Transatlantic gentlemen of the press must be natives of the sister isle: but it was all the more pleasant to the soul of Elsley.

Though their demands were abundantly extravagant, yet Ballester wrote the next day to the admiral, highly extolling Caravajals discourse; and saying that since it had failed to dissuade those people from their wicked designs, nothing less would prevail than granting them all they demanded, he found them so resolute.

"It's awfully extravagant of you, Harry,twenty roubles, a tip for those musicians.