What a lavishment of effort and technique, no refinement spared—the equivalent, Edgar thinks, of medieval church architecture. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)
Her disposition was of the sweetest description, and fully justified the lavishment of the fond parental affection with which she was blessed; while her amiability was only equalled by her dutiful attention and consideration of the smallest wish of her kind and doating parent. ❋ Colin Munro (N/A)
Does love then bring disgrace, and ruin, and dishonor upon the object of its lavishment? ❋ Porter Emerson Browne (N/A)
The pleasure of the work and the pride in a production well done will amply repay an ungrudging lavishment of time and labor. ❋ Walter Ben Hare (1915)
The pity of her worship grows, as the reader of his life, and hers, realizes how little return in demonstrative affection she received as the reward for her vast, and continuous lavishment of love. ❋ Unknown (1905)
The overplus of men made them amenable to the commands of the women, who often dominated in permanent alliances, demanding lavishment of wealth and attention from their husbands. ❋ Frederick O'Brien (1900)
Rosamond had to make her little confession, and he poured out words of gratitude and tenderness with impulsive lavishment. ❋ Unknown (1871)
In the lavishment of his love, richer of its long accumulation, he was faithful to his duty of teacher, and was amply rewarded by her progress in study. ❋ Lewis Wallace (1866)
It is difficult to write a proper consideration of a novel describing with a lavishment of detail the adventures of a distressed rectum. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It was for him the painted eyelids drooped lowest over the lustrous almond eyes; for him the love-stories caught from the professionals abounding in the streets of Alexandria were repeated with emphasis and lavishment of poetry; for him endless exclamations of sympathy, and smiles, and little privileges with hand and hair and cheek and lips, and songs of the Nile, and displays of jewelry, and subtleties of lace in veils and scarfs, and other subtleties not less exquisite in flosses of Indian silk. ❋ Unknown (1901)
HELLS ON EARTH kindled by unworthy wives, termagants that scold like a March north-easter; female spendthrifts, that put their husbands into fraudulent schemes to get money enough to meet the lavishment of domestic expenditure; _opium-using women_ -- about four hundred thousand of them in the United States -- who will have the drug, though it should cause the eternal damnation of the whole household; heartless and overbearing, and namby-pamby and unreasonable women, yet married -- married perhaps to good men! ❋ Unknown (1867)
"You must know, dear Princess, that the Grand Chamberlain, Phranza, has been negligent and remiss in the time he has consumed, saying nothing of his lavishment of treasure so badly needed at home. ❋ Lewis Wallace (1866)
QUOTE: "It is difficult to write a proper consideration of a novel describing with a lavishment of detail the adventures of a distressed rectum. ❋ Unknown (2009)
