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Example sentences for "richness"

Lexicographically close words:
richesse; richesses; richest; richlie; richly; richt; rick; rickets; ricketty; rickety
  1. More than once when we were alone, Paulina would tell me how wonderful and curious it was to discover the richness and accuracy of his memory in this matter.

  2. These pictures comprise the best specimens of English later mediaeval art, and in richness and delicacy of colour they closely approach oil paintings.

  3. It was a land of richness and tranquil charm: the first reward of the pioneers in their great nation-building adventure beyond the unknown ranges.

  4. To Boone Wellver, this journey was as full of mystifying and alluringly colourful events as a mandarin's cloak is crusted with the richness of embroidery.

  5. The great attraction of these establishments is undeniably their vast extent, for in tenue and richness they are as inferior to our own miniature bazars in London as possible.

  6. Fountains, artificial fire and aquatic machines lent their several notes of richness and variety.

  7. The richness of design that you saw on the manton of the lady in the next box at last Sunday’s corrida you find replaced here in el teatro de variedades by an anarchy of colour, and poppies of the size of a man’s hat.

  8. When killed at the proper time--that is to say, when it has rested after its fatiguing journey and recovered condition--it is covered with a layer of fat which is not surpassed in richness and flavour by any other bird.

  9. This richness of colour is the characteristic of the male bird, for the females are usually of a dull greyish hue.

  10. Its richness is indexed by its market valuation.

  11. Both pictures were sublime, both were beautiful; but that in the lake had a bewildering richness about it that enchanted the eye and held it with the stronger fascination.

  12. Lode ore now and then is of somewhat uniform quality, but at times it varies in richness in a rather striking manner; and the storekeeper had spent six or seven hours picking out the most promising specimens.

  13. What that structure was we shall see (once for all) in examining some of the later compositions, the only difference observable in the later works being, on the whole, an increased richness and greater breadth of scheme.

  14. Undoubtedly he gradually grew in power, richness of invention, fecundity of resource; but the change was one of degree, not of kind.

  15. It is quite true that in the richness of its churches Caen rivals Rouen.

  16. Then she was interested to see the many different sorts of wine, and the extreme richness of the food, and finally the shortness of the meal.

  17. A bare hall, at one side showing discolored marks of mould on the wall, decorated in what was the Russian Empire style, a beautiful conception retaining the classic lines of the French and yet with an added richness of its own.

  18. But it is yet easy enough to prove by what exaggerated and false means the pictures most celebrated for this quality are endowed with their richness and solemnity of color.

  19. No richness nor depth of tint is considered of value enough to atone for the loss of one particle of arranged light.

  20. Now, as much of this kind of richness of tone is always given by Turner as is compatible with truth of aerial effect; but he will not sacrifice the higher truths of his landscape to mere pitch of color as Titian does.

  21. One mine of extreme richness is particularly described by Pliny: according to him, it yielded 300 pounds of silver in a day.

  22. Mr. Bowdich paints the splendour, magnificence, and richness of the sovereign of the Ashantees in the most gorgeous manner; and even his manners as dignified and polished.

  23. Their principal object in colonizing and retaining it, undoubtedly may be found in the richness of its mines, and the fertility of its soil.

  24. His criticisms on the paintings of each year, mediocre as the paintings were, are admirable even now for their richness and freshness.

  25. But what was so realistic in him becomes blended in Rousseau with all the power and richness and beauty of an ideal that can move the most generous parts of human character.

  26. There is such a place among silver-trunked Birches, with here and there the splendid richness of masses of dark Holly.

  27. It may be safely deemed the most peculiar area of the earth's surface, while from the richness and multifariousness of its animal, and especially of its ornithic population, New Zealand cannot be compared with it.

  28. So large a portion of the Ethiopian subregion lies between the tropics that no surprise need be expressed at the richness of its fauna relatively to that of the last two subregions we have considered.

  29. Another chief feature is the extraordinary development of the cassowaries, the richness and specialization of the kingfishers, parrots, pigeons, honey-suckers and some remarkable flycatchers.

  30. The execution of the act for fixing the military peace establishment has been attended with difficulties which even now can only be overcome by legislative aid.

  31. In this outrage against the laws of honorable war and against the feelings sacred to humanity the British commanders can not resort to a plea of retaliation, for it is committed in the face of our example.

  32. When we think of Shakespeare, it is his richness more than even his higher qualities that we think of first.

  33. Owing to the richness of the soil, the luxuriant growth of these beautiful grasses is said to be unparalleled in England.

  34. He was my teacher in all knightly doings, and in all kingly thoughts, such as I pray may be with me through life.

  35. The Count said a thousand fine things about the elegance and richness of the dessert, and particularly admired the profusion of expense in the workmanship of the crystal and the weight of the gold fringe.

  36. And saying that he ran, in the very excess, the richness and the wealth, of the joy that was his.

  37. The bell notes, the grave, full richness of this veiled woman's voice touched Roger deeply and with a brusque motion he drew out from his pocket a banknote and pressed it into the hand under his arm.


  38. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "richness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.