Sentence examples for luxurious dwelling from inspiring English sources

They built the conical shelters with the chief ensconced in the biggest, most luxurious dwelling.

He was probably relaxing in some luxurious dwelling beside a cosy open fire, wondering how he could further enrage Isis, while we all stood in the widdling rain.

Bodiam Castle built in the 1380s possessed a moat, towers and gunports but, rather than being a genuine military fortification, the castle was primarily intended to be admired by visitors and used as a luxurious dwelling – the chivalric architecture implicitly invoking comparisons with Edward I's great castle at Beaumaris.

Anticipating a career-long fascination with luxurious dwellings, "Life Without Zoe" is a cutesy "Eloise at the Plaza" update, about a precocious tween who lives — frequently unsupervised by her jet-setting parents — at the Sherry Netherland Hotel in Manhattan (where the Coppolas stayed while Mr. Coppola was making "The Cotton Club").

He directed much of his attention to ambitious construction projects and luxurious dwellings for himself; he initiated the construction of two aqueducts in Rome: the Aqua Claudia and the Anio Novus.

Minor improvements were made, including various light windows added to the internal buildings in the 15th century, and extensive restyling of the chapel in the 17th century, but not to the extent of those castles successfully converted to more luxurious dwellings.

The Minoans were peaceful mariners headquartered on the island of Crete, an advanced people who invented two writing systems and who lived in luxurious multistory dwellings with elegantly painted walls, hot and cold running water, flush toilets.

Park Avenue achieved its brand-name status beginning in the 1910s, as developers put up comfortable, even luxurious, multiple-family dwellings, usually 13 to 15 stories high.

=pure luxury = very luxurious.

= pure luxury = very luxurious = luxurious = very comfortable = comfortable.

While castle dwellings were certainly more luxurious than the typical peasant hovels of the period, historians say they were still frigid, filthy, dark, damp cribs.