But her most striking feature was an
opulent mass of dark red hair, which had fallen in some disorder and made quite a pillow for her head.
Yet, in spite of this, nowhere in all America will you find more patrician-like houses; parks and gardens more
opulent, than in New Bedford.
In so
opulent a nation as that of Britain, where direct taxes from superior wealth must be much more tolerable, and, from the vigor of the government, much more practicable, than in America, far the greatest part of the national revenue is derived from taxes of the indirect kind, from imposts, and from excises.
If the law allows an
opulent citizen but a single vote in the choice of his representative, the respect and consequence which he derives from his fortunate situation very frequently guide the votes of others to the objects of his choice; and through this imperceptible channel the rights of property are conveyed into the public representation.
He had once more reared the American flag in the lost domains of Astoria; and had he been enabled to maintain the footing he had so gallantly effected, he might have regained for his country the
opulent trade of the Columbia, of which our statesmen have negligently suffered us to be dispossessed.
"Show me the fat,
opulent coward," he was wont to say, "who ever originated a beautiful ideal.
They went out more; they frequented concerts and parties; they accepted, with their host and his family, an invitation to one of those
opulent and barbaric entertainments with which a noted San Francisco millionaire distracted his rare moments of reflection in his gorgeous palace on the hills.
As I write, now, many months later, I perceive that each of us, by observing and noting and inquiring, diligently and day by day, had managed to lay in a most varied and
opulent stock of misinformation.
A prevalent feature in these compositions was a nursed and petted melancholy; another was a wasteful and
opulent gush of "fine language"; another was a tendency to lug in by the ears particularly prized words and phrases until they were worn entirely out; and a peculiarity that conspicuously marked and marred them was the inveterate and intolerable sermon that wagged its crippled tail at the end of each and every one of them.
Behind his seat was hung a scarlet cloth cloak lined with fur, and a cap of the same materials richly embroidered, which completed the dress of the
opulent landholder when he chose to go forth.
As to the
opulent traveler, he did the same with his two horses and servant.
While Becky Sharp was on her own wing in the country, hopping on all sorts of twigs, and amid a multiplicity of traps, and pecking up her food quite harmless and successful, Amelia lay snug in her home of Russell Square; if she went into the world, it was under the guidance of the elders; nor did it seem that any evil could befall her or that
opulent cheery comfortable home in which she was affectionately sheltered.