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    sumptuous


    1. The whole was intended to represent the living rooms of sumptuous Stephanian homes, even down to the television set and the welcoming fireplace effect set into a bulkhead


    2. He was also deeply impressed by the sheer opulence on display inside his friend’s sumptuous motor car and in between fits of pique about the riff-raff who walked today’s streets, he wondered whether he could get a car like this as a perk of his new job


    3. His captain's uniform was well tailored, sumptuous, but comfortable, his boots bore a soft shine on leather little darker than his forearms


    4. He was dressed in sumptuous robes, enough that he should be sweating in there


    5. The excited little girl took him by the hand and lead him into the back, beyond the room where they formed up and up a stairway into a wing of pretty, airy rooms with sumptuous beds


    6. The room was fresh and rather sumptuous and more spacious than the trysting suites in most Kassidorian sex clubs


    7. sumptuous motor car and in between fits of pique about the riff-raff


    8. The sumptuous feasts he would have; all the Lords forced to attend


    9. He didn’t share in their lunch, though it would have been sumptuous and well served


    10. Otto relaxed in one of the sumptuous leather armchairs and checked the time

    11. Like any other discussion court on the outdoor surface, it was sumptuous with plantings, with comfortable (for stone) benches


    12. periphery there are sumptuous vil as of


    13. A man of fortune, for example, may either spend his revenue in a profuse and sumptuous table, and in maintaining a great number of menial servants, and a multitude of dogs and horses; or, contenting himself with a frugal table, and few attendants, he may lay out the greater part of it in adorning his house or his country villa, in useful or ornamental buildings, in useful or ornamental furniture, in collecting books, statues, pictures ; or in things more frivolous, jewels, baubles, ingenious trinkets of different kinds; or, what is most trifling of all, in amassing a great wardrobe of fine clothes, like the favourite and minister of a great prince who died a few years ago


    14. The mood around the table had improved after the request from Zarko was granted and everybody relaxed as they enjoyed the sumptuous delicacies


    15. If, of late, his movements had become more laboured or his gait a touch more sluggish, then the cause was surely, in equal measure, as much the constant burden of his professional obligations as the sumptuous lunches which he forced himself to endure, in order to maintain both his strength and his spirits


    16. There were deep sumptuous red leather high-backed chairs by the desks


    17. They both stepped out from the elevator and onto the sumptuous black carpet


    18. The profits of it only are spent in Spain and Portugal, where they help to support the sumptuous profusion of the merchants of Cadiz and Lisbon


    19. There was even a gentle sea breeze to flutter the leaves of his potted palms and tease her hunger with sumptuous odors


    20. Brett and Chris Harden sat in the elder’s sumptuous corner office, on the third floor of the company’s headquarters in Anaheim

    21. where evil could hide in the once sumptuous mall


    22. He sat at a sumptuous table on the long porch


    23. The struggle for wealth and land and slaves was replaced by competition for rank in the army and sumptuous quarters, but the game went on


    24. Food at the RAD had always been hearty and adequate if not exactly sumptuous


    25. I had not yet discovered the mysteries of love, nor traveled to the distant lands of Egypt with its fascinating pyramids and its enigmatic mummies, nor walked by the powerful ruins of Machu Picchu, nor seen the portentous skies of Bogota, nor navigated through the narrow gorges of Venice, or visited the giant cathedrals in Madrid or the glimmering white towers of the Taj Mahal, nor the sumptuous waterfall Angel Fall, nor perceived the subtle aroma of the Dutch tulips, nor tasted a faint taste of the Swiss delicacies, nor the French pastries, nor the Mexican toasts


    26. Petrarco, a grumpy gnome, very bad-dressed with singular apple green pants, fuchsia boots with yellow vest splashed with purple circles was striving to push the book up to the shore of the shelf so that it was the first thing that the young girl saw on coming and finally, Drefno, an American elf of exquisite manners and sumptuous gait, was dealing with removing the creeping vermin that could maraud for the area


    27. Sprinkled like detritus among the Art Deco excesses of this sumptuous apartment were several garish minimalist paintings, overwrought little sculptures, and hand woven panels in primitive frames


    28. Servants of the region regaled them with cool beverages and sumptuous food


    29. Leaving the sumptuous dining room we descended to the ‘dungeons’, where, reclining on low couches in the well-heated, blue-carpeted, dimly-lit cellar, clients were plied with cheap wine and entertained by the brutish copulation of the naked and hugely hung right-hand-man and his bejewelled Frau, which prompted in their enraptured audience a frantic abandonment of clothes and inhibitions in unconstrained orgiastic frenzy


    30. Bank managers served me tea during private lessons in their sumptuous offices

    31. He made coffee then excused himself for a few minutes, returning dressed in a sumptuous blue taffeta ball gown, wig and tiara


    32. ‘He and his wife are promised a life of luxury and given a sumptuous farewell party before descending the exit chute in great style


    33. Gladdened by his gesture, she reciprocated in full measure enabling them to have a sumptuous dinner fed from the hands of each other


    34. He’s alive and near here!” She whirled on her closest soldiers, just outside the walls of her sumptuous tent and Secrest stopped her


    35. We went deeper into the building and down the broad avenue passing open-doored rooms that were sumptuous


    36. Always a rich kingdom, untold wealth had been rolled in by conquest, and sumptuous splendor had taken the place of simple and hardy living


    37. Throughout his youth, Harry would have given anything to travel back in time to witness the sumptuous life of St


    38. They walked down a street full of houses with sumptuous frilly curtains and discreetly dim red lanterns in the upper windows, until they came to a building that looked like it had been constructed solely of driftwood


    39. Until midnight the strangers, disguised as bedouins, took part in the delirium and even enriched it with sumptuous fireworks and acrobatic skills that made one think of the art of the gypsies


    40. After a sumptuous meal and some dancing, Carla suggested they left, so they said their good byes to the guests and the Duke

    41. The sheer opulence and grandeur of the lounge was hard to take, Max felt unworthy and disheveled in these sumptuous surroundings


    42. The sumptuous surroundings were extremely expensive, but as they could easily afford it, what the hell!


    43. But while those experiences are pleasurable, sex neither harms the environment like a fast car, nor does it contribute to obesity, tooth decay and diabetes like a rich, sumptuous cake


    44. Ann was tempted to mention the considerable sums spent by the various kings and rulers of Europe on building numerous and sumptuous palaces for themselves with the crushing taxes extracted from the farmers and workers of their lands, but wisely kept mum about that


    45. dance with me?” She was now rubbing her sumptuous body against the flustered Bar Manager


    46. With the royal revenues either dried up or swallowed by military expenditures, the times of the sumptuous parties and balls were over for the moment, adding to the court’s idleness


    47. Hillary had fallen into a light sleep upon the sumptuous bed


    48. ” Hillary finished her sumptuous dinner


    49. sumptuous mirrored hall recalled the rococo French royal court


    50. It would then join the Westlink to the M1 motorway, to complete its 20-mile journey to Hillsborough Castle, the setting for a sumptuous banquet, jointly hosted by His Majesty the King and the President of the United States












































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    Synonyms for "sumptuous"

    deluxe gilded grand lush luxurious opulent princely sumptuous lavish ornate luscious rich

    "sumptuous" definitions

    ostentatiously rich and superior in quality