There were the carriages, the horses, the servants with the livery coats and powdered heads, and the servants with the black coats and unpowdered heads.
There were the gems, and the presents, and all the nice things that money can buy.

There were two dinner parties every day, one at two o'clock called lunch, and the other at eight.

The tradesmen had learned enough to be quite free of doubt, and in the City Mr Melmotte's name was worth any money,--though his character was perhaps worth but little.
The large house on the south side of Grosvenor Square was all ablaze by ten o'clock.

The broad verandah had been turned into a conservatory, had been covered with boards contrived to look like trellis-work, was heated with hot air and filled with exotics at some fabulous price.

A covered way had been made from the door, down across the pathway, to the road, and the police had, I fear, been bribed to frighten foot passengers into a belief that they were bound to go round.