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extravagant
1. and extravagant in the late,
2. consider more expensive and extravagant gifts
3. Many have been claimed in marriage as virgins with extravagant offers on their first night, and many dream of it
4. Although they were extravagant as council chambers, they were wholly inadequate as a facility for education
5. Although it didn't appear to be much larger than the other two, the style was extravagant for the area
6. How extravagant soever those earnings may appear, if they were more than
7. But, the Archenon was, even to him, extravagant
8. The price of venison in Great Britain, how extravagant soever it may appear, is not near sufficient to compensate the expense of a deer park, as is well known to all those who have had any experience in the feeding of deer
9. The debtors of such a bank as that whose conduct I have been giving some account of were likely, the greater part of them, to be chimerical projectors, the drawers and redrawers of circulating bills of exchange, who would employ the money in extravagant undertakings, which, with all the assistance that could be given them, they would probably never be able to complete, and which, if they should be completed, would never repay the expense which they had really cost, would never afford a fund capable of maintaining a quantity of labour equal to that which had been employed about them
10. The idea of the possibility of multiplying paper money to almost any extent was the real foundation of what is called the Mississippi scheme, the most extravagant project, both of banking and stock-jobbing, that perhaps the world ever saw
11. They naturally, perhaps necessarily, follow the mode of the times ; and their expense comes to be regulated by the same extravagant vanity which directs that of all the other great proprietors in their dominions
12. The holders of them might form extravagant expectations, and, instead of two or three per cent
13. It is generally reckoned, that there are about 2000 people who keep accounts with the bank; and allowing them to have, one with another, the value of £1500 sterling lying upon their respective accounts (a very large allowance), the whole quantity of bank money, and consequently of treasure in the bank, will amount to about £3,000,000 sterling, or, at eleven guilders the pound sterling, 33,000,000 of guilders ; a great sum, and sufficient to carry on a very extensive circulation, but vastly below the extravagant ideas which some people have formed of this treasure
14. She realized in some measure the extravagant hopes of her votaries; and in the discovery and conquest of Mexico and Peru (of which the one happened about thirty, and the other about forty, years after the first expedition of Columbus), she presented them with something not very unlike that profusion of the precious metals which they sought for
15. It was a revenue, too, of a nature to excite in human avidity the most extravagant expectation of still greater riches
16. But in the system of laws which has been established for the management of our American and West Indian colonies, the interest of the home consumer has been sacrificed to that of the producer, with a more extravagant profusion than in all our other commercial regulations
17. The price, however, which a lady, it is said, would sometimes pay for a piece of very fine linen, seems to have been equally extravagant ; and as linen was always either an European, or at farthest, an Egyptian manufacture, this high price can be accounted for only by the great expense of the labour which must have been employed about It, and the expense of this labour again could arise from nothing but the awkwardness of the machinery which is made use of
18. The price of fine woollens, too, though not quite so extravagant, seems, however, to have been much above that of the present times
19. The inside of the delta craft was pretty much what Torbin would have expected: palatial, extravagant with all its decorative affectations
20. this stopover, Captain Hawes arranged for an extravagant luau
21. the recklessly extravagant who have grown accustomed to living beyond their means…or off their inheritances
22. The buy now pay later approach to consumer spending has provided many families opportunities to imitate extravagant lifestyles that many could not otherwise afford if left to their own resources
23. the meaning of the word! For they have adorned themselves as queens, high and lofty, in their extravagant
24. These same individuals, however, are counted among those critical in their old age of the federal government‘s inability to keep pace with the growing demands of an aging population whose extravagant spending habits over the years were seldom mindful of the need to set aside a portion of their income for a rainy day!
25. consumes beyond the limits of his or her (material) resources, however, is unlikely to find any sum sufficient to support a standard of living that extravagant spending oftentimes adopts
26. The only sign of life came from the vases that burst with extravagant bouquets on every flat surface, the smell of the dying flowers hanging heavy in the still air
27. It was covered in intricate beadwork that was as subtle as it was extravagant
28. I honestly felt we were going to some sort of Halloween party, or maybe one of those extravagant dinner parties held by eccentric rich folks where nothing was ever considered over the top
29. They passed through many hallways, some of them exquisitely decorated with hand-woven tapestries of a beautiful, delicate, and quite extravagant nature
30. What would become of them then though? What had his mind devised? What end did the extravagant machinations serve
31. that he needed to do something, and it had to be very extravagant; to win back
32. For him, even knowing how much safer they’d be, it still seemed extravagant to be buying a house
33. Jury awards are extravagant (in the millions) sometimes when there is no
34. These are more extravagant than those, vibrant and complex, petals folded into petals
35. The inside was extravagant, exquisitely furnished, yet practical for mid-air battle; wide, open main hold and
36. I’ve seen some of the most extravagant places around the world
37. Manda thought it was all a bit too expensive and extravagant, this new Manhattan lifestyle Sierra had slipped into with so much gusto
38. I thanked him for his hospitality and made the usual empty extravagant praise of his family
39. designs of the glass was reflected on the extravagant crystal
40. Ninety-nine stair steps take the visitor to the pompous, extravagant and attractive temple
41. Signs such as extravagant
42. As Johnnie Babcock points out, extravagant praise and accolades were heaped on Pops over the years with seldom a negative word
43. In all this meant our party and wedding would be rather extravagant
44. final and extravagant meal, supply him with a bounty of
45. Since all of God’s attributes are unified and found in love, joy combines with all the other attributes of love to help fulfilll all the purposes of God! Haleluiah! Isn’t that awesome?!! Glory to God for His indescribably great, joyful, and extravagant love!
46. There is certainly WAY more to know about all of these things, and there are many more major foundational truths that we have not covered here, but this can at least begin to help us all grow into fuller expressions of the extravagant love of our Father! I’ll leave you with these Scriptures and some closing thoughts:
47. Somehow I think many believers lose sight of this kind of extravagant love and grace after being saved
48. The newly ordained warrior assumes his post and takes a gift from each of the warlords present, normally a sword or armour, but there have been more inventive and extravagant offerings in the past
49. We thought that was a bit extravagant of the tight Scotsman in you, Marc,” said Lauri
50. I'm on your side there is a huge wall of stereotypes to climb over for young men who choose cosmology as a course of study, but it is one of the most extravagant fields