1 Zeena, while he spoke, seemed to be following out some elaborate mental calculation.
2 She knew that his elaborate gallantries and his florid speeches were all done with his tongue in his cheek.
3 She wanted to delay her social activities until the day when the house was finished and she could emerge as the mistress of Atlanta's largest mansion, the hostess of the town's most elaborate entertainments.
4 For Scarlett's housewarming, or "crush," as it was fashionable to call such evening parties, half-reception, half- ball, was by far the most elaborate affair Atlanta had ever seen.
5 For some time I've been intending to tell you to stop your elaborate pretenses and drink openly if you want to.
6 The other guests were dispersing to take up the same existence in a different setting: some at Newport, some at Bar Harbour, some in the elaborate rusticity of an Adirondack camp.
7 When she spied Mrs. McGanum or Mrs. Dyer ahead she crossed over with an elaborate pretense of looking at a billboard.
8 On this hint, attempts have been made to construct elaborate migratory charts of the sperm whale.
9 Alcee Arobin wrote Edna an elaborate note of apology, palpitant with sincerity.
10 To his attentive audience he drew a loud and elaborate plan of a very brilliant campaign.
11 The sergeant, taking note of this, gave pause to his elaborate history while he administered a sardonic comment.
12 From the hearty way that both Thomas and his wife laughed at the joke I could see that it had done service before, and that the whole explanation was simply an elaborate sell.
13 He described to me how he would whip such a boy as if he were unfolding some elaborate mystery.
14 The preacher turned back each wide sleeve of his surplice with an elaborate large gesture and slowly surveyed the array of faces.
15 A few weeks later, through the elaborate investigations of the Metropolitan police, the perambulator was discovered at midnight, standing by itself in a remote corner of Bayswater.