Tales of the super rich, their sport, their couplings, their customs and rituals, as well as their extravagant habits, fed a minor publishing industry.
Instead, he said, Mr. Cusack "tried to hijack history in order to feed his own extravagant habits, and support his own quest for luxury."
Owing to his extravagant habits, Crome went bankrupt in 1831, when the contents of his father's house were sold, and many of "Old" Crome's paintings and his own works were disposed of.
It was usual for the wealthy Romans on this occasion to invite one another mutually to formal meals, and the extravagant habits and the good living during these festive days were probably carried to a very high level.
To see dressed poultry in a dream, foretells extravagant habits will reduce your security in money matters.
Owing to his extravagant habits - he was somewhat of a dandy - Wainewright's affairs became deeply involved.
He had no money of his own apart from what he earned, and he was a man of somewhat extravagant habits with a partiality for the society of women.
As a young man, he fell into dissolute company and acquired extravagant habits, leading to his imprisonment in the Fleet for debt.
Though very strict in religious observances he was fond of luxury, and of extravagant habits, and continually in want of money.