plethoric

On the other hand, like all these stout, little men who do themselves well, he is a plethoric sleeper.

His companion was a short plethoric little fellow, with a brisk and resolute air.

"He stood up, shook my hand, and emptied his plethoric vest pocket.

Often suited to plethoric, slow people subject to catarrhal congestions.

This "plethoric" approach, as Arman calls it, encourages intense visual study.

This scale seems to be reliable and free from sexual preconceptions although plethoric in conceptualising some of the items.

He made sure that he was dreaming and would presently wake up to the sound of snoring emitted by his plethoric wife.

"Sure," answered O'Brien, thumping down a plethoric sack by the side of Matthewson's.

Cioculescu discussed his "impressive erudition", but argued that it was "occasionally plethoric, poetically inebriating itself through abuse".

He had the plethoric habit of one to whom wholesome exercise is a stranger and the sallow complexion of the confirmed candy-fiend.

These clothing accessories insured there was enough volume to create a plasticity effect and thus highlight a plethoric femininity, according to aesthetic views of the time.

He was red-faced, burly and plethoric, with a pair of very small twinkling eyes which looked keenly out from between swollen and puffy pouches.

Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope, once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body.

For indeed it is of apoplexy, so to speak, and a plethoric lazy habit of body, that Churches, Kingships, Social Institutions, oftenest die.

It was as well for his peace of mind that Frank could not hear the conversation between the fat waiter and their chambermaid, for whom he nourished a plethoric attachment.

The "blue book," he says, "creates an atmosphere of formality and redundancy in which the drab, Latinate, plethoric, euphemistic style of law reviews and judicial opinions flourishes.

We start at eight o'clock in the morning, in a great mail-coach, whose huge cheeks are so very ruddy and plethoric, that it appears to be troubled with a tendency of blood to the head.

The competition was initially founded in opposition to the FIGC by the richest clubs of Northern Italy, which disagreed the old format of the championship, based on plethoric regional groups.

Here the little quarto began to heave his sides and chuckle, until at length he broke out in a plethoric fit of laughter that had well nigh choked him, by reason of his excessive corpulency.

The Major, for his part, was in a state of plethoric satisfaction that knew no bounds: and he coughed, and choked, and chuckled, and gasped, and swelled, until the waiters seemed positively afraid of him.

Cioculescu acknowledged Eliade's "impressive erudition" and status as "column leader" of a generation concerned with Romanian Orthodox spirituality and mysticism, but contended that Eliade's manner was "occasionally plethoric, poetically inebriating itself through abuse".

Clive Exton's determined melding of two separate Jeeves stories per episode continues to give me trouble, but last night it achieved a climax worthy of the original as the straw-boatered burghers from Birdsburg queued to press the flesh of the plethoric Dook of Chis-wick.

If the Radetzky March of Johann Strauss, senior, is more to our taste, we can gaze both at a spirited portrait of the plethoric old general to whom it was dedicated, and at a manuscript of that most infectious march, in Strauss's own hand, that includes a previously unstudied coda.

Like Aconite it is suited to plethoric, vigorous, healthy constitutions, robust children and babies when the complaints come on suddenly and with great violence, then subsides just as suddenly; a short, sharp course - Not to be used in prolonged, continuous or recurrent states or in complaints which come on gradually.

Concerning further details deponent sayeth not, though he may hint that some of his plethoric national patriotism simmered down and leaked out of the bottom of his soul somewhere--at least, since that experience he finds that he cares more for men and women and little children than for imaginary geographical lines.