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    Use "florid" in a sentence

    florid example sentences

    florid


    1. It was now over a thousand Earth years old, and the characters were archaic and florid


    2. He had a rather florid complexion and white hair


    3. I couldn’t make out the florid script, but Giovanni insisted it was in Latino and simply requested in the name of the emperor that we should be allowed to continue unimpeded as far as Innsbruck


    4. Sheeit, Bates said to himself, wiping his head and neck again, his black hair hanging wetly next to his florid face


    5. love with Nazia—the florid daughter of the owner of


    6. John was pleasant in his manners seen in his laughing blue eyes and cheerful smile on his florid face


    7. articulate properly, without resorting to embarrassingly florid


    8. culminated in Revelations the most florid of all books


    9. going on the freeway, to the particularly florid manifestations of


    10. The following morning, Jamie was visited by the district constable, a florid, heavy-set man with a large nose covered with the telltale broken veins of a tippler

    11. The florid face of the drinker, the red nose of the


    12. Sessions and Old Bailey had now to summon their favourite, specially, to their longing arms; and shouldering itself towards the visage of the Lord Chief Justice in the Court of King's Bench, the florid countenance of Mr


    13. Stryver, looking at him with sharp eyes, and slowly drawing a hand across his florid face: "do you know, I rather thought, at the time, that you sympathised with the


    14. His was not perhaps so florid as that of the councillor, but it recommended itself by a more direct style, that is to say, by more special knowledge and more elevated considerations


    15. Without ceasing to eat he turned to me his florid, BAROCCO apostle's face with an expression of inquiry


    16. profession, at the same time that they highly provoked an itch of florid


    17. His thighs, finely fashioned, and with a florid glossy roundness,


    18. up; and if a com-extreme pretty features, and that florid health and


    19. features, and that florid health and bloom for which the country girls are


    20. with freshness, blooms florid to the eye, and delicious to the touch; then

    21. On my part, I was richly overpaid for the pleasure I gave him, in that of examining the power of those objects thus abandoned to him, naked and free to his loosest wish, over the artless, natural stripling: his eyes streaming fire, his cheeks glowing with a florid red, his fervid frequent sighs, whilst his hands convulsively squeezed, opened, pressed together again the lips and sides of that deep flesh wound, or gently twitched the over-growing moss; and all proclaimed the excess, the riot of joys, in having his wantonness thus humoured


    22. Her countenance and whole frame grew more animated; the faint blush of her cheeks, gaining ground on the white, deepened into a florid vivid vermillion glow, her naturally brilliant eyes now sparkled with ten-fold lustre; her languor was vanished, and she appeared quick, spirited and alive all over


    23. And now Emily's partner had taken her out for her share in the dance, when this transcendently fair and sweet tempered creature readily stood up; and if a com-extreme pretty features, and that florid health and complexion to put the rose and lily out of countenance, extreme pretty features, and that florid health and bloom for which the country girls are so lovely, might pass her for a beauty, this she certainly was, and one of the most striking of the fair ones


    24. becoming manliness and maturity, that symmetrized nobly with that air of distinction and empire with which nature had stamped it, in a rare mixture with the sweetness of it; still nothing had he lost of that smooth plumpness of flesh, which, glowing with freshness, blooms florid to the eye, and delicious to the touch; then his shoulders were grown more square, his shape more formed, more portly, but still free and airy


    25. One of the businessmen, florid and pleased with himself, leaned back in his chair so that his stomach strained the seams of his shirt


    26. So far my friend Macdona; and it may be taken as a fairly accurate, if florid, account of the proceedings


    27. “’Tis the Tarleton ladies,” he announced to his daughters, his florid face abeam, for Tarleton


    28. of no way of refusing when Rhett told her in the most florid language that nothing was too good to deck the bride of one of our brave heroes


    29. She knew that his elaborate gallantries and his florid speeches were all done patriotic blockade runner simply because it amused him


    30. him unshaven, his once florid face covered with silvery bristles

    31. His words brought up Gerald’s florid face and bellowing voice so clearly


    32. Gatsby would be a florid and corpulent person in his middle years


    33. He left off rubbing his arm and raised his hand to signal for the check, and when the waitress came he thanked her in the same florid Spanish he used on the Subcomandante


    34. That florid sociable personage was become more interesting to him since he had seen Rosamond


    35. There you are to the life: a deep subtle sort of thinker with his fore-finger on the page, while Saint Bonaventure or somebody else, rather fat and florid, is looking up at the Trinity


    36. Vincy, blustering as he was, had as little of his own way as if he had been a prime minister: the force of circumstances was easily too much for him, as it is for most pleasure-loving florid men; and the circumstance called Rosamond was particularly forcible by means of that mild persistencewhich, as we know, enables a white soft living substance to make its way in spite of opposing rock


    37. He was a man obviously on the way towards sixty, very florid and hairy, with much gray in his bushy whiskers and thick curly hair, a stoutish body which showed to disadvantage the somewhat worn joinings of his clothes, and the air of a swaggerer, who would aim at being noticeable even at a show of fireworks, regarding his own remarks on any other person's performance as likely to be more interesting than the performance itself


    38. He chose to go under the marquee to get a glass of water, being hot and thirsty: it was empty of other visitors, and he asked the woman in attendance to fetch him some fresh water; but before she was well gone he was annoyed to see entering the florid stranger who had stared at him


    39. In that short drive her dread gathered so much force from the sense of darkness, that when she entered the private counting-house where her brother sat at his desk, her knees trembled and her usually florid face was deathly pale


    40. Meserve’s face was florid and yet the skin around his eyes had gone white

    41. A young uniformed cop with a florid face and an excitable manner was headed toward me


    42. My fellow traveler was middle-aged, paunchy, seemingly well-to-do, with a florid complexion and a gold watch fob of unmistakable value


    43. He was violent and florid, as district-attorneys usually are


    44. Her face, full and florid, was expressive of calmness and seriousness


    45. Extreme neatness was characteristic of Simeon, but he disliked anything florid in dress or appearance, anything opposed to the austere simplicity that marked his manner of living


    46. I remembered her unpleasantly as a great, bony, florid child, unable to stand still or to sit still, or to keep her tongue still, full of aimless questions and giggles and silly remarks, which she and her mother thought funny


    47. But they are in such a hurry to spear the florid, bloated body of easy success that they cannot wait


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    Synonyms for "florid"

    florid rubicund ruddy sanguine aureate flamboyant ornate showy luxurious fancy dressy ornamental

    "florid" definitions

    elaborately or excessively ornamented


    inclined to a healthy reddish color often associated with outdoor life