Her mass of fair hair -- her ruddy cheeks -- her blue eyes and her thick strong body, gave her the appearance of youthful buxomness. From Wordnik.com. [A Village of Vagabonds] Reference
When one is tired of gigantic horses with ever-impending hoofs, tired of large plaster ladies whose complete poise does not entirely atone for a rather excess of buxomness, one can always turn to these reminders of the beauty that is the essential characteristic of the Exposition itself. From Wordnik.com. [The Architecture and Landscape Gardening of the Exposition A Pictorial Survey of the Most Beautiful Achitectural Compositions of the Panama-Pacific International Exposition] Reference
That thee is sent receive in buxomness: submission. From Wordnik.com. [England's Antiphon]
And she answered, with great buxomness, that she was named Tolosa, and was a butchers daughter of Toledo, that dwelt in Sancho Benegas Street, and that she would ever honour him as her lord. From Wordnik.com. [The First Part. III. Wherein Is Recounted the Pleasant Manner Observed in the Knighting of Don Quixote] Reference
There was about Miss Gina Berg, whose voice could soar to the tirra-lirra of a lark and then deepen to mezzo, something of the actual slimness of the poor, maligned Elsa so long buried beneath the buxomness of divas. From Wordnik.com. [Humoresque A Laugh on Life with a Tear Behind It] Reference
But she had long, curved flanks that saved her from buxomness; and her head was set high and light on her shoulders, like a bird that floats on a wave, and o'er it ran her bright curls, the one o'er the other, like little wavelets. From Wordnik.com. [A Brother To Dragons and Other Old-time Tales] Reference
We know the Doric mood sounds gravity and sobriety; the Lydian, buxomness and freedom; the Æolic, sweet stillness and quiet composure; the Phrygian, jollity and youthful levity; the Ionic is a stiller of storms and disturbances arising from passion; and why may we not reasonably suppose, that those whose speech naturally runs into the notes peculiar to any of these moods, are likewise in nature hereunto congenerous?. From Wordnik.com. [Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 1 (of 3)] Reference
3. Okay, now ever since Power Girl was first introduced, there's been some measure of...comment over her...buxomness, as it were. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2005-07-24] Reference
Such a cloister, with ease to his soul, with buxomness, with books to read and learn, was for our departed friend his house in Wallingford, where he lived surrounded by that extraordinarily gifted family of his: a wife to whom we owe the Concordance to the poems of Shakespeare, a sister who translated for him the German critics, sons and a daughter and a sisters relative1 who have all made their mark in their countrys literature. From Wordnik.com. [Horace Howard Furness. VI. An Address Delivered in the Name of the American Philosophical Society, Philadelphia, January 17, 1913] Reference
That thee is sent receive in buxomness. From Wordnik.com. [Hills of the Shatemuc] Reference
Whateer of buxomness and free delight. From Wordnik.com. [Paradise. Canto XXXII] Reference
Whatever of buxomness and free delight. From Wordnik.com. [Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete] Reference
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