How To Use Luxuriant In A Sentence
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He carefully draped it over Ramirez, and soon the warmth from the luxuriant fur stilled his chattering teeth and banished the damp.
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The ground was luxuriant with colocynth, whose runners and fruits looked festive in the early light.
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A subcategory of this genre of books is composed of in-depth narrative accounts of the experiences of individual students applying to Ivy League colleges, their every emotional nuance dwelled on in luxuriant detail.
Confessions of a Prep School College Counselor
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These "Observations" were the first of a series of volumes by Gilpin on the scenery of Great Britain, composed in a poetic and somewhat over-luxuriant style, illustrated by drawings in aquatinta, and all described on the title page as "Relative chiefly to Picturesque Beauty.
A History of English Romanticism in the Eighteenth Century
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He still sports luxuriant sideburns, although he admits that he had to lighten his hair colour to suit his age.
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Tall, luxuriant plants grew along the river bank.
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Nestled in terra cotta, thick, gutsy prosciutto barely girdles hunks of luxuriantly gooey mozzarella bocconcini that have been roasted into a delicious taffy, the perfect bonbon to chomp on during a film by the Taviani brothers.
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Della sells her luxuriant hair to buy Jim a chain for his gold watch, while Jim in turn sells his watch to buy a set of tortoise shell combs Della has desired for her hair.
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Many women enjoy more luxuriant hair later in pregnancy.
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The driver examined the damage caused to the car, while Hubert and his Phaedran friends chatted with us by a hedge delimiting a field of mastodon grazing on tall luxuriant grass.
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They emerge from the luxuriant foliage like lost Mayan temples.
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Your hand luxuriant line entanglements into the city in whose laughter.
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High temperatures combined with lots of rainfall result in luxuriant vegetation and boundless wildlife.
Did you know? An enchanted lake in Veracruz rises every dry season, but falls again during the wet season
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Suddenly, on the gravelled path, unhurrying, cool, luxuriant, Mme. Swann appeared, displaying around her a toilet which was never twice the same, but which I remember as being typically mauve; then she hoisted and unfurled at the end of its long stalk, just at the moment when her radiance was most complete, the silken banner of a wide parasol of a shade that matched the showering petals of her gown.
Within a Budding Grove
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Despite his blue eyes, fresh complexion and luxuriant white hair, he often sought reassurance about his appearance.
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And just to rub salt into the wound, I had a luxuriant crop of hair on the top of my head in those wasted years (there is a photo to prove it).
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Not just longer, but bushier, thicker, glossier, more luxuriant - downright biblical many of them.
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In Brazil, though rich in luxuriant vegetable and animal life, there is no history – all is new and progressive, but vulgar and parvenu; whereas Syria, in her abomination of desolation, is the old land, and she teems with relics of departed glory.
The Romance of Isabel, Lady Burton
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My mother has brought her own bed-linen, from home, and below my hot cheek, chafing it, is a butterfly: spreading luxuriant wings, embroidered on the pillowcase by my mother's own hand.
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We had a delicious gallop over the sands to the Waiakea river, which we crossed, and came upon one of the vast lava-flows of ages since, over which we had to ride carefully, as the pahoehoe lies in rivers, coils, tortuosities, and holes partially concealed by a luxuriant growth of ferns and convolvuli.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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There is something picturesque and original in the first sight of a place like Arras, or St. Omer, with the rich and lavish greenery, luxuriant trees, banks of grass by which the 'fosse' and grim walls are masked.
A Day's Tour A Journey through France and Belgium by Calais, Tournay, Orchies, Douai, Arras, Béthune, Lille, Comines, Ypres, Hazebrouck, Berg
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They have hawkish noses, receding chins and luxuriant mullets that fall to their jeans.
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Her first entrance, as an excited teenage princess, was full of confidence, her arms featherlight and gorgeous, her phrasing luxuriant.
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As Betty tenderly uncovers the wound beneath Rita's luxuriant hair, we know she's already in too deep for her own good.
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There were two very large oak trees in front of our house with wide spreading branches and luxuriant foliage.
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There were two very large oak trees in front of our house with wide spreading branches and luxuriant foliage.
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Though the centre is not immune from horn blare and tyre screech, a tranquillity hangs in the air, nurtured by luxuriant greenery and birdsong.
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In summer, especially lush vegetation, holly leaves shiny shiny, elm tree with luxuriant foliage, give people put up a thick green shade.
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They motored their way behind the luxuriant tour buses of the headliners, and thought, privately, that they were living in a dream.
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The vocabulary of integral space is luxuriant, rich, enchanting and do not break abstemious, faint emerge those who moving romance is passional .
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An ancient Egyptian would not be recognisable as such without a swath of luxuriant, raven hair.
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Hair is full, luxuriant and bursting with healthy vitality.
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Understory growth is not luxuriant, consisting mostly of grouse whortleberry, Oregon grape, and birchleaf spirea.
Ecoregions of Wyoming (EPA)
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To me the plant called to mind a giant jungle of a cheese plant in the corner, with huge luxuriant leaves on tangly, ropey stems, streaming out of a giant clay pot and taking over half of the room all the way up to the ceiling.
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With those changes from major to minor, they can wrap a luxuriant sense of yearning around you like a mink stole.
Times, Sunday Times
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We have absolutely no fresh food in the house… except if you count the luxuriant growth of mould on an avocado I left in the fruitbowl.
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Luxuriant and beautiful is livid face, stand up firm firm fan my spank, this is I grow so great first time to be in public circumstance by person slap sb in the face.
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Venetian noblesse, with their cool porticos and colonnades, overhung with poplars and cypresses of majestic height and lively verdure; on their rich orangeries, whose blossoms perfumed the air, and on the luxuriant willows, that dipped their light leaves in the wave, and sheltered from the sun the gay parties whose music came at intervals on the breeze.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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In summer, especially lush vegetation, holly leaves shiny shiny, elm tree with luxuriant foliage, give people put up a thick green shade.
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Once more, in fancy, he was sailing up the mighty Amazon, shooting alligators on its banks, spearing fish in its waters, paddling through its curious gapo, and swinging in his hammock under its luxuriant forests.
Martin Rattler
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And luxuriant greenery is a magnet for local wildlife in the dry, so station gardens also require considerable fortification to discourage pigs and wallabies from making damaging incursions.
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The hour-long flight takes in both sections of the Gregory National Park and passes over luxuriant river valleys, yawning gorges, rocky ravines and a chain of magnificent flattop sandstone mesas.
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There are delightful libraries, more aromatic than stores of spicery; there are luxuriant parks of all manner of volumes; there are Academic meads shaken by the tramp of scholars; there are lounges of Athens; walks of the Peripatetics; peaks of Parnassus; and porches of the Stoics.
The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
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The Emperor Franz Josef favoured equally luxuriant mutton-chop whiskers - effectively a beard, with the chin shaven.
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In the fall of the year this luxuriant growth of grass would be set on fire by the Indians or hunters, and especially when the wind was high would sweep resistlessly over the prairies, forming a spectacle, especially at night, that was at once magnificent and terrifying.
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While her green, gold, and red metallic body costume with its short skirt emphasizes her luxuriant sensuality, her waist beads indicate that she is marriageable and morally desirable.
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Suddenly Mrs Brown catches sight of Florence's head of luxuriant hair under her bonnet and is gripped by the lust to clip the tresses off and sell them.
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In Venice — as in Tuscany — painting came to perfection after the heroic period; and the arts have been truly described as the gilded bark which covered the cankered trunk of a luxuriant tree. '
Explaining Titian's Egg Seller
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We rested above an hour in the cool shade, while our horses refreshed themselves on the "grama" that grew luxuriantly around.
The Scalp Hunters
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Percy the Peacock's luxuriantly highlighted and coiffured barnet is his pride and joy.
Because You`re Worth It ...
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whiskers grew luxuriantly from his ample jowls
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The luxuriant bouffant enhances his youthful appearance.
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Her failed vision of herself, though men almost unfailingly found her beautiful, was of ‘a smaller, elegant creature with luxuriant auburn hair, sea-green eyes and a dazzling white skin’.
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The growths were not so luxuriant or prodigious, but for the most part the trees offered suggestions of alluring possibilities to the semiarboreal Nu, for the branches were much heavier and more solid than those of the great tree-ferns of his own epoch, and commenced much nearer the ground.
The Eternal Savage
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Dotted with green islets and set in a spectacular lunar landscape, Lake Myvatn is notable for its luxuriant vegetation and for providing a home for 45 nesting bird species.
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We've bought a wonderfully luxuriant carpet for our bedroom.
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His curly hair was luxuriant.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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The scenery is luxuriant because San Pancho is surrounded by the Sierra Madre Mountains, covered in verdant foliage.
Playa San Francisco: San Pancho for music and art
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The village is noted for the colours of its villas and their roofs, luxuriant foliage, the beauty of the surrounding mountains and the blue of the water and sky.
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There were two very large oak trees in front of our house with wide spreading branches and luxuriant foliage.
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Tall, luxuriant plants grew along the river bank.
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I need scarcely expatiate upon the delicate and long-continuing fragrance which this luxuriant perfume imparts to all things with which it comes in contact; it is peculiarly calculated for the drawer, writing-desk, &c. since its aroma is totally unmingled with that most disagreeable effluvium, which is ever proceeding from alcohol.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 334, October 4, 1828
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Such little strips of open land would seem very mean in other latitudes, but at the equator, where there is vertical sun and luxuriant vegetation, they can work and be pleasant to look into, if not be in.
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An ancient Egyptian would not be recognisable as such without a swath of luxuriant, raven hair.
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Below this was a swamp surrounded by a luxuriant growth of asters of every hue, and white and pink spirea and golden rod, and blue iris, and the delicate, rose-colored arethusa, and the blue fringed gentian abounded on every hand; also shrubs of the bayberry, wild rose and sweet brier, with many beautiful ferns.
Peak's Island A Romance of Buccaneer Days
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Your hand luxuriant line entanglements into the city in whose laughter.
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An ancient Egyptian would not be recognisable as such without a swath of luxuriant, raven hair.
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She presented a luscious curvy figure and wore a luxuriant dark wig - something that seems to have developed since this production's early performances.
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The lady on the left had long, dark luxuriant hair, full lips and eyes like black olives; on her head perched a jewelled coronet.
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Your hand luxuriant line entanglements into the city in whose laughter.
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Suddenly Mrs Brown catches sight of Florence's head of luxuriant hair under her bonnet and is gripped by the lust to clip the tresses off and sell them.
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A tall, bespectacled figure, his face half concealed by a luxuriant walrus moustache, Perky had enjoyed an extraordinary career.
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An ancient Egyptian would not be recognisable as such without a swath of luxuriant, raven hair.
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We've bought a wonderfully luxuriant carpet for our bedroom.
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In summer, especially lush vegetation, holly leaves shiny shiny, elm tree with luxuriant foliage, give people put up a thick green shade.
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This new luxuriant yatch is near completion.
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Across a two-mile expanse of water, Dorchester Heights, bosoming to the skies with luxuriant verdure, was at that time undisturbed by any habitation of man, save one small, rude building, where dwelt a fisherman and his wife, to whom we shall more particularly refer hereafter.
Nix's Mate
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In front of the pulpit was a stand bearing tall white geraniums in luxuriant blossom.
Chronicles of Avonlea
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I let thim grow solid, the luxuriant and becoming gr-rowth ye're admiring this very minute ....
The Return of Blue Pete
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I'm afraid that his voice simply does not reach the same gorgeous peaks of luxuriant smoothness as the honeyed tones of some of his colleagues.
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The sward was the brilliantly green, luxuriant wild growth that in these islands covers every foot of earth surface.
White Shadows in the South Seas
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In summer, especially lush vegetation, holly leaves shiny shiny, elm tree with luxuriant foliage, give people put up a thick green shade.
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I was startled by a great patch of vivid scarlet on the ground, and going up to it found it to be a peculiar fungus, branched and corrugated like a foliaceous lichen, but deliquescing into slime at the touch; and then in the shadow of some luxuriant ferns I came upon an unpleasant thing, — the dead body of a rabbit covered with shining flies, but still warm and with the head torn off.
The Island of Doctor Moreau
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Too much liberty of this kind savours of a luxuriant ungovernable fancy and borders on enthusiasm.
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A prison cell, semi-luxuriant, for a deserving con - and I was in it!
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Christmas trees are essentially a foliage crop, and luxuriant foliage with good color is a definite asset when trees are sold.
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Your hand luxuriant line entanglements into the city in whose laughter.
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President's picture, full of grace and life, and richly meriting the term exquisite: nothing can be finer than the dark luxuriant hair contrasted with the alabaster delicacy and elegance of the features; the eyes too beam with benignant expressiveness.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 402, Supplementary Number (1829)
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Air-vehicles were fluently moving above ziggurats submerged in the luxuriant greenery.
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In your salon, the probable palm and rubber-plant give the impression of luxuriant Edenic flora, relatively speaking, and illustrate the transmogrification which is to allow M. Gaston Deschamps -- critic of a_
Barks and Purrs
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Nor are those who have a "sweet tooth" forgotten, for on the west side of the French Broad river, where the sourwood is the thickest and the wild flowers most varied and luxuriant, an apiary has been placed.
North Carolina and its Resources.
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He sports a luxuriant Salvador Dalí moustache and a body covered in tattoos.
Times, Sunday Times
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The contrast between these cold glaciers and the luxuriantly wild-flowered and forest-edged meadows which border them as snugly as so many rippling summer rivers affords one of the most delightful features of the Mount Rainier National Park.
The Book of the National Parks
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Britain needs more men with luxuriant heads of hair.
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The luxuriant growth of wheat on the marled field showed an even more striking difference.
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He sports a luxuriant Salvador Dalí moustache and a body covered in tattoos.
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The sides of the valley were here nearly precipitous; but, as frequently happens with stratified rocks, small ledges projected, which were thickly covered by wild bananas, liliaceous plants, and other luxuriant productions of the tropics.
Journal of researches into the geology and natural history of the various countries visited by H.M.S. Beagle
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The rich and luxuriant carpets of the many varieties of box, thuya, taxus, and dwarf pine, in dark, somber greens and many lighter color variations, are superb.
The Art of the Exposition
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The luxuriant lawn is an ideal place for walking.
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Here we rested, and our tired animals fully appreciated the cool water and the luxuriant "gramma" grass which abounded.
Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography
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A friend from Hawaii, tanned and bright-eyed, is similarly attired except that her pants are a dazzling green; a green that mirrors the rolling, tree-blanketed vista that extends for miles outside the window of Walker's luxuriant kitchen -- which is where she and I settle after her friend excuses herself.
Alice Walker: On Finding Your Bliss Interview by Evelyn C. White
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In summer, especially lush vegetation, holly leaves shiny shiny, elm tree with luxuriant foliage, give people put up a thick green shade.
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The Portuguese nobles, with King Diniz (reigned 1279-1325) at their head, filled the idle hours of their bloody and passionate lives by composing strangely abstract, conventional poems of love and religion in the manner of the Provençal _canso, dansa, balada_ and _pastorela_, which had had such a luxuriant growth in Southern France in the eleventh and twelfth centuries.
Modern Spanish Lyrics
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Not just longer, but bushier, thicker, glossier, more luxuriant - downright biblical many of them.
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The Donald himself sports a luxuriant mane of reddish hair that seems to spring not just out of his pate but also out of his brow, where it almost merges with his wildly profuse eyebrows.
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Hair is full, luxuriant and bursting with healthy vitality.
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He still sports luxuriant sideburns, although he admits that he had to lighten his hair colour to suit his age.
Times, Sunday Times
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All travellers attest the luxuriant verdure of those extensive wadies; and that they were equally or still more rich in pasture anciently, is confirmed by the numerous flocks of the Amalekites, as well as of Nabal, which were fed in the wilderness of Paran (1Sa 15: 9).
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
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The most luxuriant rain forests occur in northwest Morotai and north Halmahera, as opposed to the south arm of Halmahera, which is in the rain shadow of north Halmahera and Bacan.
Halmahera rain forests
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On view until May 6, the exhibit examines his richly colored Pre-Raphaelite portraits of women blessed with cupid's bow lips, luxuriant hair and deep, hooded eyes.
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And luxuriant foliage is no longer just apple green but ranges from purplish blue to green splashed with white.
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Gama Valley is famous for the luxuriantly green forest, colorful cuckooflowers, limpid spring, deep and steep gorges and various birds.
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Organic care nourishes the soil for a lawn that's naturally luxuriant, disease-resistant and pest-free.
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And birds were singing too, sometimes; and mosses were spread out in luxuriant patches of wood carpeting in many places; and rocks were brown and grey, and grown with other mosses and ferns; and through all this fairy work of beauty, Daisy's chair went at an easy, quiet pace, with a motion that she thought it very pleasant to feel.
Melbourne House
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He shows me a picture of a man sporting only a luxuriant moustache, wraparound sunglasses and a pair of underpants.
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An ancient Egyptian would not be recognisable as such without a swath of luxuriant, raven hair.
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He has lost his right testicle and his luxuriant mullet but has somehow managed to cling on to his ratty little moustache.
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Man-made stone colour and lustre is much, the exterior is luxuriant, won't suck again smeary , color is rich, become mesa of high-grade kitchen first selection.
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His curly hair was luxuriant.
Indian Balm - Travels in the Southern Subcontinent
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It was almost enveloped in luxuriant wreaths of yellow jessamine, and garlanded with a magnificent lamarque rose, whose cream-colored buds and flowers contrasted beautifully with the dark, polished green of the finely-cut leaves.
Dred; A Tale of the Great Dismal Swamp. Vol. I
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After descending from Almora the road winds its way mostly along the valley and we had the constant companionship of lush green paddy fields, luxuriant vegetation all around and an occasional rivulet.
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Your hand luxuriant line entanglements into the city in whose laughter.
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Too much liberty of this kind savours of a luxuriant ungovernable fancy and borders on enthusiasm.
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this suave, culture-loving and luxuriantly good-looking M.P.represents the car-workers of Coventry
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Tell the truth, luxuriant and beautiful is the sort of very lovely wife, this kind of ambiguous contact lets me be unable to bear or endure mind ripples, surprise mistily think of crotchet night.
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Pines, birches and juniper grow in luxuriant profusion on a valley floor lush in bilberry, cowberry and heather.
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Her 'light-coloured' hair was not so light as to be uncomely, and fell in luxuriant ringlets all round the sides of her pretty head; and the head moved about enough to shake the ringlets, till they threatened to form a mazy net to catch men's eyes.
The Hills of the Shatemuc
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Pitt's ‘garbage’, along with his face and his body - the torqued biceps, the luxuriant hair - is his fortune, and the producers of Troy are hoping that it will be theirs, also.
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A few are standing at an elevation of nearly three thousand feet; at twenty-five hundred feet, pyrola, veratrum, vaccinium, fine grasses, sedges, willows, mountain-ash, buttercups, and acres of the most luxuriant cassiope are in bloom.
Travels in Alaska
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Beyond, the ground fell away again, to a lower level without such luxuriant growth, the soil being sandier and supporting more of the tough shrub-type vegetation.
Cattle Town
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The area consists of luxuriant growth of tall grasses with scattered growth of deciduous forest trees.
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Roxanne sighed as she twisted her luxuriant dark brown hair into a knot at the back of her head.
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We had a delicious gallop over the sands to the Waiakea river, which we crossed, and came upon one of the vast lava-flows of ages since, over which we had to ride carefully, as the pahoehoe lies in rivers, coils, tortuosities, and holes partially concealed by a luxuriant growth of ferns and convolvuli.
The Hawaiian Archipelago
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And from our breakfast perch on the windowless hotel verandah high above a rainswept gorge almost overrun with verdant, luxuriant jungle dotted with palms, frangipani, hibiscus and pink orchids, the rain was positively uplifting.
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Could one have imagined that the brilliant wit, the luxuriant raillery, and the fine and deep sense of PASCAL, could have combined with the most opposite qualities -- the hypochondriasm and bigotry of an ascetic?
Literary Character of Men of Genius Drawn from Their Own Feelings and Confessions
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The rich and luxuriant carpets of the many varieties of box, thuya, taxus, and dwarf pine, in dark, somber greens and many lighter color variations, are superb.
The Art of the Exposition
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It is a luxuriant plant with opposite oblong and obvoate leaves which abruptly acuminate apically and are obtuse to basally rounded.
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This stretch of land was once covered with luxuriant forest, but is now bare.
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In the second version, the poet is in a luxuriant garden, where he drinks an elixir which induces a vision.
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Another is the luxuriant tropical gardens bursting with cycads and strelitzia, a splendid sight.
Times, Sunday Times
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Rebecca's eyes were clear and blue, the color of the ocean at Brighton beach, her hair thick, luxuriant, plentiful, and curly, spilling down her back in exotic curls.
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The lower elevational areas, known locally as ceja de montaña, consists of closed, luxuriant forests.
Eastern Cordillera real montane forests
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The vocabulary of integral space is luxuriant, rich, enchanting and do not break abstemious, faint emerge those who moving romance is passional .
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Switzer pine amid the luxuriant scenes of tropical life, when their thoughts revert to the smoky shieling or to the rock-encompassed
Woman on the American Frontier
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Man-made stone colour and lustre is much, the exterior is luxuriant, won't suck again smeary , color is rich, become mesa of high-grade kitchen first selection.
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It is a luxuriant depiction of competition: from the tops of the trees down to the river's edge, the canvas crackles with jostling leaves angling toward the morning sun.
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“Peter” has a tawdry hall, smeared with the escutcheons of all nations, where music and waltzing whirl through the dense air, hour after hour; and what is at least of equal consequence to him, Peter holds a tavern in the next room, where spirits, beer, or coffee are equally at the command of the drouthy or the luxuriant.
A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France
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We walked on for some minutes in musing silence, and the rude log-hut in which my wise companion had his home came in view, -- the flocks grazing on undulous pastures, the lone drinking at a watercourse fringed by the slender gum-trees, and a few fields, laboriously won from the luxuriant grassland, rippling with the wave of corn.
A Strange Story — Complete
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Noting how thin the Professor's ash-coloured hair seemed to be, over the crown of his head, in comparison with Dahlia's luxuriant and elaborately dressed chestnut locks, I felt depressedly that the disparity in age was more marked than is often seen.
A Court of Inquiry
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The fragments from the trailer exposure to see, gunplay action luxuriant glaring, is deep in John woo action movie "violence aesthetics" essence.
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This ancient woodland is nothing like a typical rainforest, which has a lush canopy, a luxuriant understory, and a permanently shaded, relatively open forest floor.
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In summer, especially lush vegetation, holly leaves shiny shiny, elm tree with luxuriant foliage, give people put up a thick green shade.
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Around the pond grows a profusion of luxuriant trees.
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If you want your hair to grow luxuriant, you cut it only at the very moment of full moon.
Secrets of the Soil
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His skin was still so pale as to be painful to her eyes, and clashed dramatically with his beautiful dark hair, long and luxuriant in the sunlight, and boyishly disheveled.
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The valleys are green, the brooks are frequent, the rivers are tortuous, the mountains are high, and luxuriant walnut-trees embower the roads.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 70, August, 1863
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Among its winding streets and alleys, you will find parks where men with luxuriant moustaches and flat caps still play that rather silent, cerebral game of boule.
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If you want your hair to grow luxuriant, you cut it only at the very moment of full moon.
Secrets of the Soil
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The luxuriant curves departed, a compressed lineality was to be observed everywhere, the pupils of his eyes seemed flattened, and the carriage of his head was limp and sideways.
The Hand of Ethelberta
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Erica, in a dark blue silk dressing-gown and fluffy slippers, her luxuriant hair being disheveled, flew into the room like a hurricane.
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At times they were entirely hidden by the luxuriant growths, and at times they came out on little bald spots where rock outcropped to the exclusion of vegetation.
The Call of the Beaver Patrol or, A Break in the Glacier
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The new prisoner had luxuriant fox-red hair and hot blue eyes, and the dead-white complexion of extreme drunken anger.
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Despite the sun, the island is luxuriantly green and the hot wind blows the balmy scents of lavender, rosemary and heather.
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The Moluccas are the counterpart of the Philippines in their volcanic structure, their extreme fertility, their luxuriant forests, and their frequent earthquakes; and Bali, with the east end of Java, has a climate almost as arid as that of Timor.
Physics and Politics, or, Thoughts on the application of the principles of "natural selection" and "inheritance" to political society
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The luxuriant coast bordering on the southern extremity of the lake and skirting the peninsula of Michigan and southwestern Ontario -- though comparatively flat -- is not void of charming features; being lined with numerous pretty villages imbosomed among gentle slopes that were covered with the richest verdure.
By Water to the Columbian Exposition
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Beyond stretch undulous pastures, studded not only with sheep, but with herds of cattle, which my speculative predecessor had bred from parents of famous stock, and imported from England at mighty cost; but as yet the herds had been of little profit, and they range their luxuriant expanse of pasture with as little heed.
A Strange Story — Complete
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Giggs tries to slip Fortune through, one-on-one with Baia, only for the luxuriantly coiffured custodian to spring from his line and claim the ball.
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Ignoring the boysy banter, beautiful Angel Coulby - a Guinevere who is all smile and freckle and luxuriant curl - is deeply absorbed in a thriller, her train-ticket bookmark clutched in her right hand as she scans the text.
Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
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Below the scree - girt heights, pines, larches, birches and juniper grow in luxuriant profusion on a valley floor lush in green bracken, bilberry, cowberry and heather.
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There is usually a current running here, but the same thing that makes diving slightly uncomfortable encourages luxuriant coral growth and teeming numbers of small fish.
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The fourth lakelet had no rush-or sedge-beds and no reeds, and was almost covered with a luxuriant growth of the floating _camalote, _ a plant which at a distance resembles the wild musk or mimulus in its masses of bright green leaves and brilliant yellow blossoms.
Far Away and Long Ago
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A prison cell, semi-luxuriant, for a deserving con - and I was in it!
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Tall, luxuriant plants grew along the river bank.
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Unfortunately, we must forge on, following the path along this more luxuriant, sheltered coast, through ferns and sweet-smelling woods.
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In the summertime, elk come to nibble on the luxuriant grasses that grow on my living roof.
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The bush in this area grows in luxuriant profusion, even on the high rocks off the coast.
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It also seems to sport a luxuriant growth of something akin to a virulent mould.
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Former ADN reporter Charles Wohlforth recounts his surprise at coming upon a luxuriant "flotel" for pipeline workers in a remote stretch of wild Prince William Sound.
News on Anchorage Press
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Its tropical gardens are full of rare, luxuriant vegetation and exotic fragrance.
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Not like your hair, so luxuriant.
Times, Sunday Times
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Then there were scattered groups of the rugged ilex, with its pale green leaves silvered by the moonbeams; and, where the land was cultivated, there was the livelier green of the young wheat, and the dark verdure of luxuriant crops of sainfoin: scarcely a house was passed; a solitary habitation is
Rambles in the Islands of Corsica and Sardinia with Notices of their History, Antiquities, and Present Condition.
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Its still surface is pictured with dainty reflections of boats and grassy banks and luxuriant foliage.
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Richie's home-from-home now has a living area, two bedrooms and a kitchen, and is surrounded by a luxuriant garden.
Did you know? A plastic island is constructed in Mexico
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Do luxuriant facial hair and expert knowledge of complex function theory go together?
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She presented a luscious curvy figure and wore a luxuriant dark wig - something that seems to have developed since this production's early performances.
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Here, in this soft and genial atmosphere, the hydrangea is a common flower-bed ornament, the fuchsia grows lofty and luxuriant in the poorest cottage garden, the myrtle flourishes close to the sea-shore, and the tender tamarisk is the wild plant of every farmer's hedge.
Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot
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Throughout the exhibition, these chromatically and compositionally luxuriant paintings exude a kaleidoscopic intensity that verges on the psychedelic.
ArtScene: Catch Them Before They Close: Top Current Exhibitions in the Northwest
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In summer the house next door is hidden luxuriant foliage.
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A fine clear September day, with a cool wind and a warm sun; a day upon which the diaphanous costumes of the bridesmaids might be a shade too airy; but not a stern or cruel day, to tinge their young noses with a frosty hue, or blow the crinkles out of their luxuriant hair.
The Lovels of Arden
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We are too close to realities to indulge in luxuriant theories.
SpainIts Internal Issues and Repercussions As Affecting the British Empire
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Australia lie solitary beneath the bright cross of the south, a rank and luxuriant herbage cumbered every footbreadth of the dank and steaming soil; and even to distant planets our earth must have shone through the enveloping cloud with a green and delicate ray.
The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
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Now a resort, Norfolk has luxuriant vegetation and is known for its pine trees, which are not true pines but evergreens of the araucaria family.
Norfolk Island
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There, too, at the University, his poetical gifts commenced to "burgeon" luxuriantly.
The Poems of Henry Timrod.
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Those early buildings of the race course still exist too, in red brick, with white fascias and red tile roofs, with long verandas set under luxuriant oak trees and manicured gardens.
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The Moluccas are the counterpart of the Philippines in their volcanic structure, their extreme fertility, their luxuriant forests, and their frequent earthquakes; and Bali with the east end of Java has a climate almost as dry and a soil almost as arid as that of Timor.
The Malay Archipelago
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But oh, he was a handsome man, with hair as curly and luxuriant as that of Will's beautiful maid, and dark blue eyes that matched the color of the ocean in Brighton.
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Despite his blue eyes, fresh complexion and luxuriant white hair, he often sought reassurance about his appearance.
Times, Sunday Times
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Birch trees grow in extravagant excess, juniper bushes cover the floor and a rich, luxuriant undergrowth of heather, blaeberry and moss gives an impression of timelessness.
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This is an area surrounded by cacti, standing mature on the rims of cliffs, bleak yet luxuriant in formidable clusters.
Real de Catorce: an outpost of progress
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The ground was luxuriant with colocynth, whose runners and fruits looked festive in the early light.
Seven Pillars of Wisdom
