luxuriant

• “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

• “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

• “We are too close to realities to indulge in luxuriant theories.”

  Spain—Its Internal Issues and Repercussions As Affecting the British Empire

• “In front of the pulpit was a stand bearing tall white geraniums in luxuriant blossom.”

  Chronicles of Avonlea

• “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

• “How delightful it was after descending along rugged paths to camp in luxuriant grass, and among brushwood which provided us with plenty of firewood.”

  With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior

• “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

• “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

• “I cannot wonder at the rapturous language used in the description of these places by the sea-wearied discoverers who viewed them for the first time in the summer season; for even I, with no such spur to imagination, find it difficult to stick to sober prose when recalling the luxuriant growth of these isles of the far North.”

  Impressions of America During The Years 1833, 1834, and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume II.

• “Orli Shaham played seven Chopin pieces with the kind of luxuriant charm that reminded me of historic recordings by Ignatz Paderewski.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Cause to Celebrate at Merkin Hall

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