In the League one practiced self-help, and enjoyed the twin luxuries of self-direction and self-expression, and came sooner or later to that strange new knowledge which is self-discovery.

How would you and Hetty like to remain in Millville and run it?" Both Thursday and Hetty smiled, but it was the man who answered; "We cannot afford such a luxury, sir.

The Loved and Hated Union Hall Now the loggers, being denied the luxury of home and family life, have but three places they can call "home."

He knew the luxury of charity, having no superfluities.

" The old man thanked God for his good son, and only hoped that he was not straitening himself to buy luxuries for a useless old fellow.

Wealth, honor, and power will produce luxury, pride, and selfishness.

" With the murderer practically arrested, Inspector Chippenfield permitted himself the luxury of smiling at the way in which Crewe was following up a false scent.

But assuredly, persons of such rank, under the guidance of a commander who claims his descent from the God who created the day and the night, would never be able to endure the hardships of our climate, and could not procure in this country those luxuries they have been accustomed to in their own.

It is well for us to taste once in a way the luxury of wasting on others; though I have yet to learn that anything can be called wasted which lessens, even for a moment, the amount of human suffering.

He would never allow me the luxury of a maid, fearing, I suppose, that she might learn too much.

This wife, with whom he lived so congenially, and whose money gave him even more luxury than his operatic success could have procured,indeed, the very house he died in she had bought for eleven thousand florins,outlived him less than three years, dying March 12, 1800, at the age of seventy-one.

Bowing to these three, who, like himself, seem to find real luxury in open-air strolling on a bitter night in midwinter, he notices that his model, the Ritual Rector, is wearing a new hat, like Cardinal's, only black, and is immediately lost in wondering where he can obtain one like it short of Rome.

Indulgent to the movements of nature, opposed to its struggles, never mistaking chastity for a virtue, always considering luxury as a vice, he insisted upon sobriety as an economy of the appetite, and that the repasts in which one indulged should never injure him who partook.

Mrs. Everidge's eyes came back from one of their long journeys, "Oh, I have learned the luxury of doing without," she said lightly.

It appears to me that culture, which brings luxury and selfishness with it, has a tendency rather to weaken than promote this affection.

Amid the palaces of Versailles they displayed all the vanities of dress, all the luxuries of their favored life.

He had no special hobbies, but he needed luxury in general of a kind, and especially the luxury of getting things in a hurry, his theory being that everything comes to the man who won't wait.

We know the distinctions of society,citizens and helots, and their mutual relations,the distribution of lands to check luxury, the public men, the public training of youth, the severe discipline to which all were subjected, the cruelty exercised towards slaves, the attention given to gymnastic exercises and athletic sports,in short, the habits and customs of the people rather than any regular system of jurisprudence.

She loved ease and elegance, the gracious luxuries of life.

The board, with varied plenty crown'd, May spare the luxuries of sound[b].

The glittering equipage rolls byhe recalls the painful steps he has past, anticipates those which yet remain, and perhaps is tempted to repine; but when he turns his eye on the cross of Him who has promised a recompence to the sufferers of this world, he checks the sigh of envy, forgets the luxury which excited it, and pursues his way with resignation.

As you grow older, you will appreciate more the luxury of emotion.

Ewald notices emphatically this outward prosperity, which introduced luxury and pride throughout the kingdom.

" The missionary's Berber proselytes were too numerous to encourage resistance, and the few who indulged the luxury of conscientious scruples were killed or imprisoned.

The most remote countries were ransacked to furnish luxuries for Rome; every year a fleet of one hundred and twenty vessels sailed from the Red Sea for the islands of the Indian Ocean.