It seemed difficult to suppose one could equal the lavishness of the best robe, the ring, the shoes, and the fatted calf, yet he felt certain-he knew there were fathers at that very moment, there in that town, nay, in that cathedral, ready with all and more than that.
"The Pastor's Wife"
Elizabeth von Arnim
They knew it from the amount of investment the squirrels had made in winter stock, and from the superabundance of wool on the sheep's back, and the lavishness of the dog's hair.
"Around The Tea-Table"
T. De Witt Talmage
He did not recognize in it the Flavia he knew; the girl who had watched her brother with such rich lavishness of affection, the girl whose most innocent eyes had held the possibilities of all Corrie's ardent young passion without his impulsive faults, and whose warmth of nature had drawn him as a fireside draws a wanderer.
"From the Car Behind"
Eleanor M. Ingram