A DISHONEST Gain was driving in its
luxurious carriage through its private park, when it saw something which frantically and repeatedly ran against a stone wall, endeavouring to butt out its brains.
For this reason a sleeping apartment should never be furnished with a fire, which is one of the
luxurious discomforts of the rich.
It is a great deal more natural than one could wish, that a young man, brought up by those who are proud,
luxurious, and selfish, should be proud,
luxurious, and selfish too.
All that was most sugared and musical and generally delusive in the old library of her fathers had been brought out to this little woodland library, and to that nucleus of old leather-bound poets and romancers, long since dead, yet as alive and singing on their shelves as any bird on the sunny boughs outside, my young lady's private purse had added all that was most sugared and musical and generally delusive in the vellum bound Japanese-paper literature of our own
luxurious day.
Nor do I fear that my sensible reader, though most
luxurious in his taste, will start, cavil, or be offended, because I have named but one article.
In Moscow he had for the first time felt, after his
luxurious and coarse life at Petersburg, all the charm of intimacy with a sweet and innocent girl of his own rank, who cared for him.
Many a man is harassed to death to pay the rent of a larger and more
luxurious box who would not have frozen to death in such a box as this.
In truth, this gentleman is a
luxurious Ottoman, swimming about over the watery world, surroundingly accompanied by all the solaces and endearments of the harem.
Nor does it appear to be a rash conjecture that its young swarms might often be tempted to gather honey in the more blooming fields and milder air of their
luxurious and more delicate neighbors.
And, besides, the profitable offices under the government were filled by men who had lived in London, and had there contracted fashionable and
luxurious habits of living which they would not now lay aside.
They entered the elegant, newly decorated, and
luxurious dining room.
With the ornaments on the walls and ceilings cleaned and brightened up, and with the heavy old-fashioned beds, chairs, and tables replaced by bright, pretty, and
luxurious modern furniture, these two promised to be at once the most attractive and the most comfortable bedchambers in the hotel.