72 Verbs to Use for the Word extravagance

One can die several times in four hours, and I'm going to commit one last extravagance,at the Admiral's expense!"

She would check all extravagance in dancing, and would not waste much time on music unless one has a talent for it.

After his death the country was virtually ruled by the King's mistress, Madame de Pompadour, who displaced ministers at her pleasure, and who encouraged unbounded extravagance.

We have already seen that Charles V. used his influence, which was unfortunately very limited, in trying to restrain the extravagance of fashion.

" Whilst the plunder of Hanover was serving the purpose of feeding the insensate extravagance of Richelieu and of the army, Frederick II.

Hardened with toil and exercise, They counted ease itself a vice; Which so improved their temperance That, to avoid extravagance, They flew into a hollow tree, Blessed with content and honesty.

Especially a man who could not afford such extravagance?

Being honest, you are naturally frugal; but you are ashamed of your own honesty, so you imitate the court's extravagance and made up for it with little meannesses that comfort your sense of extremes.

I easily believed him, there appearing a latent jealousy under his affliction, that showed me he envied the bridegroom's happiness, at the same time he condemned his extravagance.

In fact, so lavish were her expenditures for these and similar purposes during the early years of her reign, that she is considered as having carried the extravagance of sensual luxury, and personal display, and splendor, beyond the limits that had ever before or have ever since been attained.

For while regular in his own habits,his poverty would not have permitted him any considerable extravagance,Ellis's position as a newspaper man kept him in touch with what was going on about town.

At present, perhaps, you may think yourself in thriving circumstances; and that you can bear a little extravagance without injury: but

But before we venture on it, it will be well to restore confidence in the solvency of human thought by analysing the causes of the bankruptcy of Intellectualism and exposing the extravagance of the assumptions which conducted to it.

In his works we find the wild extravagance of Gebir, followed by the superb classic style and charm of Pericles and Aspasia.

From the first I saw this extravagance, this bizarrerie in Henry Irving's acting.

Terrible indeed was the hardship that followed his extravagance; he was actually compelled to exchange his white for a black cravat.

This propensity is as subservient to the advancement of private interests in the one as in the other, and those who direct them both, being principally guided by the same views and influenced by the same motives, will be equally ready to stimulate extravagance of enterprise by improvidence of credit.

Finding that the road did not run a sleeper to Chazy Junction, Mr. Merrick had ordered one attached to the train for his especial use; but he did not allow even Patsy to suspect this extravagance.

He proposed to himself the same thing which was aimed at by the German divines, Arndt, Calixtus, and Spener, when they rose up against the grinding oppression which Lutheran dogmatism had raised on its Symbolical Books, and which had come to outdo the worst extravagances of scholasticism.

I was but too good a prophet when I warned you to expect new extravagances from the Duc de Chaulnes's son.

Well, when the coat came home the Slavey brought it up, and put it on my best three-legged chair, and then flung out of the room with a toss of her head, as much as to say, "'Ere's extravagance!"

They forgave extravagance in palace-building, from admiration of magnificence.

One could forgive his extravagances when one knew.

Another objection, scarcely less formidable, to the commencement of a new debt is its inevitable tendency to increase in magnitude and to foster national extravagance.

This discontent is a part of the same planless confusion that gives on the other side the wanton irresponsible extravagances of the smart people of New York.

72 Verbs to Use for the Word  extravagance