How To Use Luxuriance In A Sentence
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“The boundless extent of territory we possess, the wholesome temperament of our climate, the luxuriance and fertility of our soil, the variety of our products, the rapidity of the growth of our population, the industry of our countrymen, and the commodiousness of our ports” had caused “a jealousy of our dawning splendor.”
Alexander Hamilton, American
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The luxuriance of the grebe's summer headdress seems somehow out of step with the frigid greyness of this landscape.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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The editor acknowledges that the poem itself, from the unpruned luxuriance of the author's powers, "has remained a sealed volume" -- certainly it _ought_ to be a _sealed volume_ -- "to the fairest portion of the community.
Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew
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The green luxuriance which characterizes so many of the more ancient fortalices of Scotland seems satisfactorily accounted for, by Dr Fleming, in his ‘Zoology of the Bass.’
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Can we believe that forestine luxuriance not to have overgrown all highways, that flood of superabundant song not have submerged all landmarks?
Early Bardic Literature, Ireland.
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Often omitted by traditionalists who may not be able to afford them, they are mandatory for Nazarites and lend to the Church umutsha its distinctive luxuriance.
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There is softness in the luxuriance of the grass and the leaves of the silverweed, still curled in upon themselves and looking pale and almost feathery.
Country diary
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In soft muted shades of green and white or rich tones of hot and soft shades of green and pink, caladiums deliver an unbeatable luxuriance of lushness and tropical color.
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Their bizarre distance from reality, their twisted imputations of malignity, their excess, their luxuriance in defamation and falsehood, are obviously symptomatic.
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Louisville is the largest city in Kentucky; the country about is very rich, and every thing vegetable springs up with a luxuriance which is surprising.
Diary in America, Series One
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I put on his flannel shirt -- it fell down to my toes, like a bedgown; his drawers -- and they flowed in Turkish luxuriance over my feet.
Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot
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How different in their free-born luxuriance from the dusty and city-prisoned elms and willows she had left!
Queechy
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California makes up in bristliness what it lacks in luxuriance.
The Story of the Innumerable Company, and Other Sketches
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The inexhaustible luxuriance of the picturesque style of his rhapsodies is intellectually demanding and may weary the reader of whom the poet demands such efforts of concentration.
Nobel Prize in Literature 1960 - Presentation Speech
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The editor acknowledges that the poem itself, from the unpruned luxuriance of the author's powers, "has remained a sealed volume" -- certainly it _ought_ to be a _sealed volume_ -- "to the fairest portion of the community.
Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew
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She causes, some say, desolation, evil, and decay, yet she also creates palaces of art and culture, gardens of rank luxuriance.
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The romaunt, which is half Arabian in its origin, was at first a simple heroic tale; afterwards it became a very artificial species, adapted to various uses, but in which the picturesque ingredient always predominated even to the most brilliant luxuriance of colouring.
Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature
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Much to our astonishment, the Palm Cove was lovely, a purpose-built village inserted with care into a stretch of tropical luxuriance beside a curving bay.
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The luxuriance of the grebe's summer headdress seems somehow out of step with the frigid greyness of this landscape.
Country diary: Claxton, Norfolk
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Tame, cold, dispassionate minds resemble barren lands; warm, animated ones, rich ground, which, if properly cultivated, yields the noblest fruit; but, if neglected, from its luxuriance is most productive of weeds.
The History of Emily Montague
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For our present purpose hypertrophy may be considered as it affects the axile or the foliar organs, and also according to the way in which the increased size is manifested, as by increased thickness or swelling -- intumescence, or by augmented length-elongation, by expansion or flattening, or, lastly, by the formation of excrescences or outgrowths, which may be classed under the head of luxuriance or enation.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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Its soft fair luxuriance was, no one could tell how, made to assume the half-dressed, half-undressed air of the head in Delaroche's picture; and Frederica looked the part well.
Melbourne House
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Then they changed that suit for another and, veiling her face in the luxuriance of her hair, loosed her lovelocks, so dark, so long that their darkness and length outvied the darkest nights, and she shot through all hearts with the magical shaft of her eye-babes.
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Then I climbed the long street over the rock and cobble stones between walls half green with pellitory, houses with high gables and rough wooden balconies where geraniums shone in the shadow, and from which the trailing plants hung low in that supreme luxuriance which is the beginning of their death.
Two Summers in Guyenne
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No doubt, with sufficient drainage, and great care in cultivation, and the tea plant might be made to exist in such a situation; but I am convinced it would never grow with that luxuriance which is necessary in order to render it a profitable crop.
The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, o
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The very luxuriance of the vegetation, however, with its unlimited hiding-places for cryptozoic animals, made the task of collection more difficult than it would have been in a clearer neighbourhood, where the animals are concentrated, as it were, in a comparatively few spots.
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The cutting off the hair being a recognized sign of uncleanness (Le 14: 8, 9), its unpolled luxuriance was a symbol of the purity he professed.
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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She there appears surrounded by the luxuriance of vegetable life: she pours forth her bounty with a profusion which the partizans of utility would call prodigality, and covers the earth with a splendour of beauty, which serves no other purpose than to minister to the delight of human existence.
Travels in France during the years 1814-15 Comprising a residence at Paris, during the stay of the allied armies, and at Aix, at the period of the landing of Bonaparte, in two volumes.
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The vegetation of Lower California makes up in bristliness what it lacks in luxuriance.
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And this skin was stretched over curves which likewise seemed ripened by a southern sun, recalling a sultana with their indolent and vegetative luxuriance.
Loulou
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There I saw the first olive tree ever planted in Australia; the Cork-tree in luxuriance; the Caper growing among rocks, the English Oak, the horse chestnut, broom, magnificent mulberry trees of thirty-five years growth, umbrageous and green, great variety of roses in hedges, also climbing roses.
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And you can easily say things like that, given the luxuriance of youth.
A walk on the moon
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Vice thrived in its most sordid and elegant forms, from squalid opium dens and off-the-street brothels
to the decorum and plush luxuriance of the so-called French restaurants.
Frank Norris
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No species showed any great luxuriance, and seldom did the black and white lichen-crust produce any 'apothecium,' The lichen-vegetation was most abundant on the driftwood of the beach and on the tufts in the marshes.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II
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In spite of its smoky luxuriance and organic contours, the album's architecture is a snakes-and-ladders affair of telescoping hallways, spiral staircases and dim-lit chambers of unclear dimensions.
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For our present purpose hypertrophy may be considered as it affects the axile or the foliar organs, and also according to the way in which the increased size is manifested, as by increased thickness or swelling -- intumescence, or by augmented length-elongation, by expansion or flattening, or, lastly, by the formation of excrescences or outgrowths, which may be classed under the head of luxuriance or enation.
Vegetable Teratology An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants
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This phenomenon is more exhilarating to me than the luxuriance and fertility of vineyards.
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But ancient ruins are almost always found to be thus covered with plants which grow upon them, even at a very great height above the ground, with a luxuriance which is very surprising to those who witness this phenomenon for the first time.
Rollo on the Rhine
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But if we were giving out points for quality and luxuriance of mullet hairstyle, William Wallace - or Mad McMax as he must surely be called - would walk it.
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Experimenting first on plants, he adopted the method of inserting panes of blue and violet glass in the roof of his grapery, and noticed as a result an apparent extraordinary rapidity and luxuriance of growth of the vines, and later a correspondingly large harvest of grapes.
Primitive Psycho-Therapy and Quackery
