largesse

How to use largesse in a sentence

At last, with the aid of an extravagant largesse, she was conducted to her staterooms.

The least decrepit of the beggars, armed with Helen's largesse of copper coin, had joined them from beneath the portico.

The small, bullet-headed man had just paid his extravagant bill, distributed his largesse, and was about to depart.

To his companions he gave gifts with such largesse, that his horse and armour were all that at any time he called his own.

VAL D'ARNOJOHN RUSKIN

Varney gave his largesse with an affectation of complaisance and humility.

KENILWORTHSIR WALTER SCOTT

We quicken with largesse of life, and spring with vivid mystery.

LORNA DOONER. D. BLACKMORE

What has this rabble of idlers, this self-interested mob, that lives on the largesse of the State, to fear from Caesar?

It is from the old French largesse; but the idea admits of number, and accordingly we find the plural, largesses, still in use.

Similar extraordinary entertainments continue the evening, which concludes in a distribution of largesse by the fictitious sultan.

THACKERAYANAWILLIAM MAKEPEACE THACKERAY

The other mahouts and my orderly shouted with joy, for it meant largesse to them, and jumped in after Bechan.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985