The colonel was finding this matutinal talk discomfortably opulent in pauses.

The Romans had no sooner divided, broken and subdued those powers upon the continent of Europe, who had given a diversion in the great attempt they had long intended, than they attacked the Carthaginians, a maritime power, potent in arms, immensely opulent, possessed of the trade of the whole world, and unrivalled mistress of the sea.

And he should now unkindly tread in dust The plant himself has nurtured, just because Too swiftly opulent it flowered forth?