Verb (used with object) : to plump up the sofa pillows. From Dictionary.com.
The patrols officer on Arzor was a round, plumply innocent-looking woman. From Wordnik.com. [Beast Master's Circus]
We saw him glide plumply away, and turned back ourselves towards the Admin, buildings. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas on Ganymede and Other Stories]
Francis plumply told her to choose the most solid of her pursuers and make the most of him. From Wordnik.com. [Little Novels of Italy Madonna Of The Peach-Tree, Ippolita In The Hills, The Duchess Of Nona, Messer Cino And The Live Coal, The Judgment Of Borso] Reference
If she continued to eat like this without those long walks, she would soon resemble the plumply upholstered sofa!. From Wordnik.com. [red dust] Reference
The third, a plumply pretty woman halfway around the room, wore no shawl; most Aes Sedai did not except for ceremony. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow Rising]
There, seated regally and plumply on the chest with her back to me, gazing at herself in the mirror, was our cat Purr. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce McFadden: How to Address Body Image and the Family Cat] Reference
Bake for one hour, covered loosely with baking parchment, or until the apricots are plumply cooked in the fragrant syrup. From Wordnik.com. [Waspish] Reference
Louise herself was with the group of singers in the music room, fluttering plumply from one to another, talking and laughing. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
There was a heavy wooden table against one wall and a variety of shabby basket chairs, plumply upholstered and well cushioned. From Wordnik.com. [Politics 101] Reference
She plashed plumply into the first puddle in the path. From Wordnik.com. [The Forester's Daughter A Romance of the Bear-Tooth Range] Reference
"I'm talking about the weather," rejoined Lemoyne plumply. From Wordnik.com. [Bertram Cope's Year] Reference
At any rate, I will say plumply that the ancient capital of. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Tour of France] Reference
Junior, tired out by his exertions, sat down plumply half-way. From Wordnik.com. [Angel Island] Reference
Life had not always been so plumply upholstered for old lady Mandle. From Wordnik.com. [Half Portions] Reference
'E. A.' was very patient, though now and then he plumply opposed his will to. From Wordnik.com. [The Shadow World] Reference
Why not come out plumply with the truth: Velasquez is the supreme harmonist in art. From Wordnik.com. [Promenades of an Impressionist] Reference
On the smooth jutting beerpull laid Lydia hand, lightly, plumply, leave it to my hands. From Wordnik.com. [Ulysses] Reference
By his feet was a neat leather brief-case, plumply filled with contents not discernible. From Wordnik.com. [Pipefuls] Reference
Nobody understood better than Paston the deceptive quality resident in a truth plumply told. From Wordnik.com. [With the Procession] Reference
Thereupon Brother Archangias plumply answered: 'I had to tell you just what I have told you. From Wordnik.com. [La faute de l'Abbe Mouret] Reference
Thereupon, the director of the "Globe" plumply declared that he could not insert the article. From Wordnik.com. [The Three Cities Trilogy: Paris, Volume 5] Reference
Mrs. Albi's eyebrows had risen to the middle of her forehead, and she patted Grandma's shoulder plumply. From Wordnik.com. [Across the Fruited Plain] Reference
Never were men seen with breasts more plumply padded, mustachios better trained, or such spotless gaiters. From Wordnik.com. [Vivian Grey] Reference
But the undaunted Simeon, determined to establish his masculine superiority once for all, denied her plumply. From Wordnik.com. [Bog-Myrtle and Peat Tales Chiefly of Galloway Gathered from the Years 1889 to 1895] Reference
From the society of phantoms he stepped upon Long Wharf and plumply confronted Captain Cuttle and Dirk Hatteraick. From Wordnik.com. [Literary and Social Essays] Reference
Does he go straight to her, and plumply tell his wishes? and does she, like a sensible being, agree at once to the proposition?. From Wordnik.com. [Alamance; Or, the Great and Final Experiment viii, 9-151, [1] p.] Reference
Yet this went on for some two hours, until, worn frail by such futilities, the Navarrese chancellor plumply asked his brother of. From Wordnik.com. [The Life and Death of Richard Yea-and-Nay] Reference
Marching clubs, properly outfitted with two-quart silk tiles and frock coats, were spatting their way plumply down the Boulevard. From Wordnik.com. [In the Sweet Dry and Dry] Reference
I know Buffalo down to the ground, so I took him aside yesterday and said plumply to him, 'What firm in Buffalo do you represent?'. From Wordnik.com. [In a Steamer Chair and Other Stories] Reference
Lanyard nodded; but the third, a plumply ingratiative native of Geneva, known to the ship as Emil Dressier, frowned in puzzlement. From Wordnik.com. [The False Faces Further Adventures from the History of the Lone Wolf] Reference
But withal Winsome Charteris set her pails as frankly and plumply on the ground, as though she were plain as a pike-staff, and bent. From Wordnik.com. [The Lilac Sunbonnet] Reference
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