Lexicographical Neighbors of Lavishest
Literary usage of Lavishest
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of the Inquisition of the Middle Ages by Henry Charles Lea (1887)
"... unjustly the store of the poor and lavishest it without shame on thy worldly
friends. What have I done to thee, O Gregory ? Patiently have I suffered ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Literature: Embracing Personal and Critical Notices by Evert Augustus Duyckinck, George Long Duyckinck (1856)
"... Unlock'st, beneficent, thy fragrant cells, And lavishest thy perfume on the
air; But when brown Autumn sweeps alung the glebe, Gathering the hoar-frost ..."
3. A Select Collection of Old Plays: In Twelve Volumes by Robert Dodsley, Isaac Reed, Octavius Gilchrist, John Payne Collier (1825)
"... and lavishest our blood. O Rome, accursed Rome, thou murd'rest us, And massacres!
thyself in yielding thus. Yet are there gods, yet is there heaven and ..."
4. Poems by James Clarence Mangan, John Mitchel (1859)
"So long as he hopes that Triumph and Treasure Will yet be the guerdon of Worth :—
Both are dealt out to Baseness in lavishest measure; The Worthy possess ..."
5. Poems and Plays by Percy MacKaye (1916)
"... yet a spender Of all my dear earnings, Rhapsodies, yearnings. I build, thou
breakest; I bring, and thou takest; I save, thou lavishest; I love, ..."
6. The Cyclopædia of Wit and Humor: Containing Choice and Characteristic by William Evans Burton (1859)
"Thou, when the sun " pours down his sultry wrath," Scorching the earth and
withering every flower, Unlock'st, beneficent, thy fragrant cells, And lavishest ..."
Other Resources:
