He drew his powerful figure to its height and spread his thick arms out in the luxury of stretching.

Of course there must have been many things in Germany which were distasteful to her,so many of the small refinements of life which are absolute necessaries in England were almost unknown luxuries in Germany,particularly when she married.

I need not observe to your lordships, whose legislative character obliges you to consider the general concatenation of society, that all the advantages which high stations or large possessions can confer, are derived from the labours of the poor; that to the plough and the anvil, the loom and the quarry, pride is indebted for its magnificence, luxury for its dainties, and delicacy for its ease.

After a dinner, at which apple-sauce was the greatest luxury to me, but our moose-meat was oftenest called for by the lumberers, I walked across the clearing into the forest, southward, returning along the shore.

The village detective soon coupled the feet of the missing pig with the unusual occurrence of a heap of bones before the door of the musician's abode, and by a process of reasoning unknown to the detectives of the present day, decided that those bones were a pig's bonesa stolen pig's bones, from the fact that the Piper did not earn enough to indulge in such luxuries as sucking-pigs.

When the owner had occupied the house that room had been disused, but it had, I found, been now completely transformed, and was a most tasteful little nest of luxury with its bright chintzes, its Turkey rugs and its cheerful fire on the old stone hearth.

Her structure was the last word in size, speed, and luxury at sea.

There was no lack of venison, or fish, but these are rather luxuries than actual necessaries, and they were becoming somewhat stale to as.

"I wasn't raised to associate with luxuries like that!"

Parties of officers on ponies brought from Varna or other ports on the Black Sea, cantered down to make purchases of little luxuries on board the ships in the harbor, or from the Levantines, who had set up little shops near it.

The poverty of the poor she had seen in her own village seemed comfort and luxury by contrast.

Fruit is a most important item in the economy of health; the epicurean can scarcely be said to have any luxuries without it; therefore, as it is so invaluable, when we cannot have it fresh, we must have it preserved.

Florrie was being thrown back out of luxury into her original hovel, and was accepting the stroke with the fatalism of the young and of the poor.

It is not every one who can be lavish without going a little beyond the finely-drawn boundary which divides luxury from extravagance; for useless profusion is by nature as contrary to what is aesthetic as fat in the wrong place, and is quite as sure to be seen.

On his return to Morocco, the ambassador had so advanced in European ideas of convenience, or civilization, that he attempted to introduce a taste for Parisian luxury among his own countrymen.

(And Fancy soon espied him,) Supine, in splendid garb array'd, With Luxury beside him; He dwelt beneath a lofty dome, Which Pride and Pleasure made their home.

An even greater miracle was performed in a dock-side school, where to most of the children a back-yard was a luxury beyond all possibility.

There was rather too much luxury about the meal also.

Their home had been one of moderate luxury until, three years before, their father had died suddenly, leaving the mere remnant of an estate which had been supposed to be a large one.

How we welcomed this chief luxury after our march!

Who should elect the aristocrats to be cradled in such luxury amid that world of want?

He was framed for enjoyment; but with that acuteness of feeling which turned even enjoyment into suffering, and then again extracted a luxury out of melancholy.