Noun, : oratorical rotundities. From Dictionary.com.
So it is the rotundity of my subject that bothers me. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
This produces a harsh metallic sound, without any rotundity. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 15, No. 85, January, 1875] Reference
Every step I take, confutes this visionary idea of the earth's rotundity. From Wordnik.com. [Sanders' Union Fourth Reader] Reference
He rose when Emily entered, elegant of manner, in spite of his rotundity. From Wordnik.com. [The Tin Soldier] Reference
Evidently the rotundity of the object was the point that excited his interest. From Wordnik.com. [Through Russia] Reference
I am sure we must shrink from the original rotundity with which Nature blessed us. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 07, No. 39, January, 1861] Reference
The rich twinkle of Tom's eye, and the benevolent rotundity of his form, are admirable. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 393, October 10, 1829] Reference
Mohammedan, whom from his rotundity Desmond guessed to be the khansaman of the big house. From Wordnik.com. [In Clive's Command A Story of the Fight for India] Reference
LEWIS: I thought the voice would have a little more rotundity to it, if I could use that term. From Wordnik.com. [W.E.B. DuBois: The Biography of a Race, 1868-1919] Reference
What was it caused those sharp suggestions in its accustomed rotundity -- those angular points?. From Wordnik.com. [The Flaw in the Sapphire] Reference
"I humbly appeal to you all," said Bertram in seriocomic tone, "is my rotundity a mere bagatelle?". From Wordnik.com. [A Heart-Song of To-day] Reference
Faced it with customary courage and something more than habitual rotundity of official phraseology. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 147, August 5th, 1914] Reference
Burton was a plump, shy, fair-haired little fellow, and Burton, who loved to tease, did not spare his rotundity. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
Like a boy's soap bubble, it glitters for a brief moment in iridescent rotundity, then ceases to be even a film of air. From Wordnik.com. [Round the World in Seven Days] Reference
From the rotundity of his conversational periods and a certain general suavity of demeanour I suspect him of having made. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, July 4, 1917] Reference
Between them are three miles of flat meadow, where, among thousands of sheep, stands the grey rotundity of Camber Castle. From Wordnik.com. [Highways & Byways in Sussex] Reference
Their very costume was at variance with the general gloom, and no sympathy could at once repress the jolly rotundity of their persons. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 271, September 1, 1827] Reference
On being hailed and asked what the matter was, he replied that it was the rotundity of the earth that bothered him; he kept sliding off. From Wordnik.com. [Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z] Reference
"I don't believe a word of it," said Mr. Figgs, looking with an expression of horror, first at the opening, and then at his own rotundity. From Wordnik.com. [The Dodge Club or, Italy in MDCCCLIX] Reference
One of them was a comfortable-looking, middle-aged man, with a bald head, a smooth, clean-shaven face, and an incipient ventral rotundity. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
Two meteors, flung from space across the earth's rotundity, could scarcely have been more exciting than these liberated chariots of power. From Wordnik.com. [A Husband by Proxy] Reference
I showed you, neither of these princes looked capable of such atrocities, and Prince Alldane was described as being the essence of rotundity. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 153, October 24, 1917] Reference
The first man was Mademoiselle de Corandeuil's coachman, as large a fellow as ever crushed the seats of landau or brougham with his rotundity. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
"See the poor young Duchess!" cried a woman, who was availing herself of her peculiar rotundity as a battering-ram to force her way through the crowd. From Wordnik.com. [Edmond Dantès] Reference
Where obesity is considered a charm, delicacy of outline ceases to be regarded, and a woman who has not rotundity is regarded as an unfortunate being. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873] Reference
The petals are cut in thick white wax: cup them with the large head ivory pin, to give them a rotundity of form; these are all placed on in rows of four. From Wordnik.com. [The Royal Guide to Wax Flower Modelling] Reference
I hope sincerely that this suffering individual was M.. John M. Riley; but, from the rotundity of stomach which I bestrode, I very much fear that it was the Doctor. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 35, September, 1860] Reference
The belly has for several days lost its natural rotundity, and has been evidently falling, -- she begins to moan, -- the pulse becomes small, wiry, and intermittent. From Wordnik.com. [Cattle and Their Diseases Embracing Their History and Breeds, Crossing and Breeding, And Feeding and Management; With the Diseases to which They are Subject, And The Remedies Best Adapted to their Cure] Reference
Besides the summer-squashes, we have the crook-necked winter-squash, which I always delight to look at, when it turns up its big rotundity to ripen in the autumn sun. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 105, July 1866] Reference
All that is required is a fairly long and fairly straight piece of road, terminating in a railway-station, and a sufficiency of City men of suitable age and rotundity. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 159, 1920-09-08] Reference
In the course of a little over half-an-hour we were within ten miles of its surface, which now seemed to fill the whole space below us; and its rotundity was most impressive. From Wordnik.com. [To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story] Reference
We are also told that when a humble hunchback bowed the knee in adoration at the tomb of St. Andreas, his irresistible faith instantly released him from his unnatural rotundity. From Wordnik.com. [Three Thousand Years of Mental Healing] Reference
Though never very slender, he was always thin: as if he had been flattened out in a rolling-mill; and rotundity of corporation was a mode of development not at all characteristic. From Wordnik.com. [Western Characters or Types of Border Life in the Western States] Reference
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