"Extravagantly" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... insisted on being paymaster, and tendered a sum that the black major thought so extravagantly great, considering the entertainment we had received, that he declined taking more than one half. However, Mr Bang, after several unavailing attempts to press the money on the man, who, by the by, was simply a good looking ...
— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott
... Romans! Joseph repeated to himself, and as soon as his guest had left his house he was brought to a presentiment of the danger he incurred in allowing this man to come to his house: a young man who walked about extravagantly armed would, sooner or later, find himself haled before Pilate. Joseph felt that it would be better to refuse to see him if he called at the counting-house: an excuse could be found easily: his foreman ...
— The Brook Kerith - A Syrian story • George Moore
... General died, the household in the high burgh land suffered a change marvellous enough considering how little that old man musing in his parlour had had to do for years with its activities. Cornal Colin would sit of an evening with candles extravagantly burning more numerous than before to make up for the glowing heart extinguished; the long winter nights, black and stifling and immense around the burgh town, and the wind with a perpetual moan among the trees, would find ...
— Gilian The Dreamer - His Fancy, His Love and Adventure • Neil Munro
... differed in no respect from a 'wharf-rat's,' except that they were raggeder, more ill-assorted and inharmonious (and therefore more extravagantly picturesque), and several layers dirtier. Nobody could infer the master-mind in the top of that edifice ...
— Innocents abroad • Mark Twain
... that it was their duty to look after the good of their people; so they spent money extravagantly in their own pleasures, while the whole nation ...
— The King's Daughter and Other Stories for Girls • Various
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