The wealthy spend relatively more for luxuries, the poor for food and other essentials.
The generous impulses which other women were free to feel were forbidden luxuries to her.
Boots still cost fifty dollars. Such luxuries as mirrors and stoves cost as high as seven hundred dollars each.
The apricot makes excellent jam and marmalade, and there are several foreign preparations of it which are considered great luxuries.
Instead of having me executed, he continued to shower luxuries and attentions on me, and frequently commanded my attendance upon him.
Vegetables and bread, when they indulged in such luxuries, and even fresh water, was to be procured from the mainland, which was about five miles distant.
Thomas was very fond of shooting and as he was a fine marksman he could provide game for the table, and other things which are considered luxuries to-day, such as furs and skins needed for the primitive wearing apparel of the pioneers.
They were confident, cheerful, and self-helpful, faced privation with indifference, caring nothing for luxuries; and when other provisions failed them, they gathered wild fruit, trapped animals, and fished, with great dexterity and with any sort of next-to-hand rude appliances.
It isn't good for him, and how much precious time is wasted over just this one thing?" However, I reflected, that arbitrarily refusing to indulge him in this respect is not exactly my mission as his wife; he is perfectly well, and likes his little luxuries as well as other people do.
My own weakness in that direction is a frequent subject of mirth with chance fellow travelers. The attitude is comfortable and conducive to meditation; and now that I was seated and at my ease, I felt that this was one of the New England luxuries which, almost without knowing it, I had missed ever since I left home.