When he tripped over his own foot, his face became florid with anger. From LearnThat.org.
Anorexia or bulimia in florid or subclinical form now afflicts 40 percent of women at some time in their college career. From Wordnik.com. [National Wimp Crisis | Impact Lab] Reference
The new building was in what may be called the florid shingle-Gothic manner. From Wordnik.com. [Elsie Venner] Reference
The rosette is Egyptian; and the honeysuckle, which Mr. Petrie has identified as a florid variety of the lotus pattern, (44) is also distinctly Egyptian. From Wordnik.com. [Pharaohs, Fellahs and Explorers] Reference
Yet the term "florid" will not apply to what is everywhere pervaded by an exquisite harmony and taste. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 102, April, 1866] Reference
So how is it that Rahm rates this sort of "florid" (a word Brooks finds to be so nice he uses it twice!) send off?. From Wordnik.com. [David Brooks Thanks Rahm Emanuel For All The Phone Calls] Reference
Pacchierotti, devoted their study years to preparing their voices for the display of a certain definite kind of florid music. From Wordnik.com. [The Merry-Go-Round] Reference
And yet he was very civil-spoken too, and addressed both the ladies in a most conciliating tone, and with a kind of florid politeness. From Wordnik.com. [Fenton's Quest] Reference
There was nothing "florid" about it; canvas, ropes, scaffolding-poles, and old boards, threw an air of Saxon simplicity over the whole structure. From Wordnik.com. [Rambles Beyond Railways; or, Notes in Cornwall taken A-foot] Reference
Yet Williams was not prone to florid descriptions. From Wordnik.com. [Lonesome Lucinda Williams Heads 'West'] Reference
Dame, in the transition florid style of the 15th cent. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
Check out all the florid festivities in the photos below. From Wordnik.com. [Target Kaleidoscopic Fashion Spectacular Lights Up Standard Hotel (PHOTOS)] Reference
Bailey, in taking possession, which was in the usual florid style. From Wordnik.com. [Memoirs of the Union's Three Great Civil War Generals] Reference
More florid and less majestic forms mark the era of the Ptolemies. From Wordnik.com. [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference
He commenced by paying our gaudily-attired friend some florid compliments. From Wordnik.com. [The Island Home] Reference
She sang in her florid style for a minute or two, then descended to speech again. From Wordnik.com. [A Sheaf of Corn] Reference
His suit was mauve with purple piping, and his wide, square, saggy face was florid. From Wordnik.com. [A Spaceship Named McGuire] Reference
He watched as the florid, smiling face of Pelham, his superior, appeared on the screen. From Wordnik.com. [Anything You Can Do ...] Reference
Cuts in early mental health treatment will lead to more florid cases arriving in hospital. From Wordnik.com. [Tax collection. Now there's a moral crusade for the Tories] Reference
She comes into the kitchen fragrant like coconut, or vanilla, or some florid shampoo scent. From Wordnik.com. [Ants] Reference
Drawford was a heavy-set, florid-faced man with an easy smile and a rather too hearty voice. From Wordnik.com. [Dead Giveaway] Reference
Whereas Esolen's more florid translation gives wonderful, lively expression to the characters. From Wordnik.com. [Purgatory, In All Its Nuance] Reference
"Mr. Foger is a big man, with a florid complexion and he has a heavy brown moustache," said Ned. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Swift in the City of Gold, or, Marvelous Adventures Underground] Reference
The florid should not marry the florid, but those who are dark, in proportion as they themselves are light. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
Five years after her mother's death she was florid, vapid, and weighed one hundred and sixty-eight miserable pounds. From Wordnik.com. [Our Nervous Friends — Illustrating the Mastery of Nervousness] Reference
Happily, however, there is no need to choose: reading may be cultivated side by side with more florid accomplishments. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
As fiercely beautiful as a hawk in her leather dress, she enters in a paroxysm of over-enunciation and florid gestures. From Wordnik.com. [Curtain Calls] Reference
Miss Prescott's style is elaborate and florid, frequently of rare beauty, always giving evidence of culture and scholarship. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He read from his paper in a florid pontificating voice about the French novelist Celine and the effect surrealism had on him. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 1] Reference
I asked Mr. Rubin whether some of the school's grandiose features like florid murals of Robert F. Kennedy were worth the cost. From Wordnik.com. [Broke] Reference
Some of these, including the house of the ruddy little mayor and the polite, florid grocer, lie spilled along the edge of the marsh. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
The other south side entrance, called the Porte du Fort, 12th cent., presents an extraordinary composition of the florid Byzantine style. From Wordnik.com. [The South of France—East Half] Reference
There is an entire absence of the florid in architecture, and no attempt at all at decoration as one understands it in Spanish cathedrals. From Wordnik.com. [A War-time Journal, Germany 1914 and German Travel Notes] Reference
"Sister having a good time up to Boston?" inquired a florid man, who despite the chilliness of the late fall day was in his shirt-sleeves. From Wordnik.com. [Other People's Business The Romantic Career of the Practical Miss Dale] Reference
Evidently, we hadn't thought this through properly, not Jessica Mary with her affinity for florid words or me with my natural ponderousness. From Wordnik.com. [Hitler's Angel (A Meta Christmas Carol)] Reference
And just as Cyrano de Bergerac hid behind his florid prose, self-described Net addicts Turkle has worked with think themselves less worthy in person than online. From Wordnik.com. [They Log On, But They Can't Log Off] Reference
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