Word: sumptuous
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...most sumptuous and fascinating book.- Boston Home Journal...
...bell yesterday afternoon served another purpose besides calling men to recitations. It announced the triumphal entry to the yard of Old John and his sumptuous turn out. The fruit business will doubtless be very much accelerated by the new donkey and though we have some forbodings about John's personal safety we wish him and his donkey long life...
...until, in the time of Mark Antony it had two hundred thousand volumes. Many scholars came to Pergamon who worked in the library and contributed to the philological learning of the times. The natural sciences were also subjects of study. The princes of Pergamon adorned their capital in a sumptuous manner. This was especially the case with Eumenes whose reign ended in 157 B. C. The principal sculptural works date from his time. Pergamon continued to be the principal city of Asia Minor during the period of the Roman Empire...
When the men reached Cambridge their extravagant feelings were somewhat subdued by the cold. Nevertheless the unanimous verdict was that, barring the fact that they had been almost frozen on the way to Wellesley, and that the sumptuous spread with which they were served would probably give them all dyspepsia, and that they had to pose around the corridors as statuettes after the concert instead of charming the Wellesleyians with Harvard wit, and finally that, when they reached Cambridge, the driver had been obliged to roll them all out of the barge like barrels they were so stiff with...
...arrive exhausted at the field of battle, and the one who has been running falls down half dead. At other times the projectile sent with a vigorous arm cannot be stopped, and breaks the legs of the party who awaits it. The arrangements for the cricket-match include a sumptuous dinner in the marquee for fifty persons-an indispensable accompaniment to every cricket-match...