"The /idea/, when I can barely rake and scrape enough together to keep us presentable!"
"Where do you get our money?" asked the girl. "Father gives me a check every fortnight. Of course you know that he has charge of our affairs."
Eloise's serene expression did not change. She looked at the little black book in her hand. "This edition costs five dollars," she said. "Scandalous!" exclaimed Mrs. Evringham. "I can tell you this is no time for us to be collecting /editions de luxe/.英文原著 · 《Jewel》
The pre-dinner hour is the uncomfortable hour of the modern hotel de luxe. The rooms seem uncomfortably hot, the evening paper palls, it is too early to dress for dinner, so one sits yawning over the fire, longing for a fireside of one's own. At least that is how it strikes one from the bachelor standpoint, and that is how it appeared to affect a man who was sitting hunched up in a big arm-chair in the vestibule of the Ninevah Hotel on this winter afternoon.英文原著 · 《Okewood of the Secret Service》
On some questions, my dear, you are a veritable Blue-book--yes, an /edition de luxe/ of a Blue-book."英文原著 · 《Phyllis of Philistia》
"Oh," said the other modestly, "just a few canvases. Painting is so dear now, it is a taste so difficult to satisfy, a true passion /de luxe/--a passion for a Nabob," said he, smiling, with a furtive look over his glasses.英文原著 · 《The Nabob》