Sentence:  one saw and felt a vanished Broadway, plains covered with cattle and cowboys, jungles and native villages, and a great shining city of hansom-cabs, political intrigue and <WSD>plushy</WSD> champagne-suppers, as if one were walking through them oneself in the company of a superb raconteur and inspired liar. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  Plush; sumptuous.