He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence.
Quotes about basking (10 Quotes)
The entire country is basking in warmer-than-normal temperatures.
Love in her sunny eyes does basking play Love walks the pleasant mazes of her hair Love does on both her lips for ever stray And sows and reaps a thousand kisses there. In all her outward parts Love's always seen But, oh, he never went.
Even though many retailers saw strong sales this past weekend, companies will not be basking in their success. Stores are already warming up for the next four weeks because the holiday season is far from over.
The immense cities lie basking on the beaches of the continent like whales that have taken to the land.
Just seeing an alligator does not make it dangerous. They have to come out of the water, as a cold-blooded reptile, to regulate their temperature by basking in the sun.
It doesn't happen by luck or accident, ... There's an awful lot of planning. I want us to play with a freedom that is organized - but we're not basking in what has happened so far. We won't be resting on our laurels, and if any player thinks differently, I will act on it.
We're basking in the glow of negative inflation in the month of November.
There has come into existence, chiefly in America, a breed of men who claim to be feminists. They imagine that they have understood ''what women want'' and that they are capable of giving it to them. They help with the dishes at home and make their own coffee in the office, basking the while in the refulgent consciousness of virtue. Such men are apt to think of the true male feminists as utterly chauvinistic.
Koizumi wants to go out when he is at his peak and basking in glory - that way he can avoid dealing with the chronic problems plaguing Japan like the pensions crisis, the social welfare nightmare and our battered relations with China and Korea, a problem directly caused by Koizumi's insensitive brand of nationalism.