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Humiliation In Providence, because Barber Philip Reitano shaved off Francesco Mastrostefano's moustache, which had luxuriated "continuously and undipped for . . . more than 47 years," Francesco Mastrostefano sued Barber Reitano for $2,000.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since the tenants had discovered that they had a sympathetic listener in her, they had luxuriated in the pouring out of their sorrows.

From A Manifest Destiny by Magruder, Julia

Oh, she had fought against it at first, but lately she had luxuriated in it.

From The Chalice Of Courage A Romance of Colorado by Brady, Cyrus Townsend

There was much to be done to cleanse the beds in the garden of literature from all the weeds which had luxuriated there, and to fertilize a soil which had so long lain fallow.

From Historical View of the Languages and Literature of the Slavic Nations by Robinson, Therese Albertine Louise von Jacob

The tree-ferns that had luxuriated in its spray had died around the dried-up pool, and the high ravine was only a big trench half filled up with the refuse of excavations and tailings.

From Nostromo, a Tale of the Seaboard by Conrad, Joseph