Adjective : a plethoric, pompous speech. From Dictionary.com.
Anthony Powell's "A Dance to the Music of Time" can be accurately described as plethoric Proust. From Wordnik.com. [Not Your Mom's Book Club] Reference
He stood up, shook my hand, and emptied his plethoric vest pocket. From Wordnik.com. [Local Color] Reference
In 1765, his purse having become somewhat more plethoric, he removed to. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine Of Popular Literature And Science Old Series, Vol. 36—New Series, Vol. 10, July 1885] Reference
Animals attacked with this disease are generally in a plethoric condition. 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
He was a good-looking rather plethoric gentleman of about sixty years of age. From Wordnik.com. [Barchester Towers] Reference
The passenger, who was a plethoric, sanguineous man felt as if he were stifling. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 3, July, 1851] Reference
I always contrive that the more plethoric of my guests shall take their seats near him. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 3, September 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
The first animals in a herd to be attacked are generally those in a full, plethoric condition. 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
Being fat and old and plethoric he could not be expected to use a stick and thrash the young lord. From Wordnik.com. [The American Senator] Reference
As they settled their little bills, Lorrimer thoughtlessly displayed a plethoric pile of bank-notes. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 32, June, 1860] Reference
Colonel Harrington shook, as he placed his cane under his arm and took out his big plethoric wallet. From Wordnik.com. [Bart Stirling's Road to Success Or, The Young Express Agent] Reference
They led him into a great variety of speculations, but from one and all he emerged plethoric with dimes. From Wordnik.com. [Tin-Types Taken in the Streets of New York A Series of Stories and Sketches Portraying Many Singular Phases of Metropolitan Life] Reference
‘A discharge of ink was an evacuation absolutely necessary to avoid fatal and plethoric congestion.’. From Wordnik.com. [Castle Rackrent] Reference
After a while our attention was called to him by his roaring out, in a voice of plethoric fury, ‘O!’. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of Snobs] Reference
A man of plethoric temperament is sure to get fever, and concerning a stout person one may hear the remark. From Wordnik.com. [Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa] Reference
Sioux Falls is plethoric of widows and when one is freed, the other convicts writhe under the burden of their stripes. From Wordnik.com. [Letters of a Dakota Divorcee] Reference
The causes of this disease are overwork in warm weather, a plethoric condition of the system, and too stimulating food. 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
The typical English Sunday, with the huge midday dinner and the plethoric afternoon, leads perhaps to different results. From Wordnik.com. [Memories and Portraits] Reference
In the strong and plethoric it is often preceded by shivering and febrile symptoms and by a feeling of weight in the lower bowels. From Wordnik.com. [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference
It would be very pleasant to describe the tea-table; but the truth is, it did not pretend to offer a plethoric banquet to the guests. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 37, November, 1860] Reference
And from the red Gooseberry may be prepared an excellent light jelly, which is beneficial for sedentary, plethoric, and bilious subjects. From Wordnik.com. [Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure] Reference
Scottish bills through Parliament, and by far the greater part of this sum has been absorbed by plethoric London, and cannot by possibility return. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845] Reference
Satisfied of this, like a lazy and plethoric fish he kept within sight of his bait, close upon it, without deigning for a time as much as a nibble. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 54, No. 338, December 1843] Reference
Joyce smiled in spite of it, and fished out a newspaper-clipping from her plethoric pocket-book, which she handed her manager with a ceremonious air. From Wordnik.com. [Joyce's Investments A Story for Girls] Reference
Mr. Blaise, who was a plethoric, fussy little man, adamant to all the world save his only child, regarded her now in perplexity, his shrewd eyes a bit mischievous. From Wordnik.com. [Heart of the Blue Ridge] Reference
Treatment -- Keep the horse on light food, as mashes, scalded shorts, green grass, &c., and if he is very plethoric, he should be half starved and bled from the mouth. From Wordnik.com. [Young's Demonstrative Translation of Scientific Secrets] Reference
And the poetry was, perhaps, increased by the contrast offered by the sorrowing countenance of the girl to the radiant visage of the plethoric individual in the chair. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
The indigent children were first fed and then insulted by a plethoric gentleman, who addressed to them a long discourse on indigence and the various duties that it entailed. From Wordnik.com. [By the Christmas Fire] Reference
Fortunately his frame is robust, yet not plethoric. From Wordnik.com. [What Will He Do with It? — Complete] Reference
The passenger, who was a plethoric, sanguineous man, felt as if he were stifling. From Wordnik.com. [My Novel — Complete] Reference
Law speaks of a plethoric woman of thirty who bled freely from the eyes, though menstruating regularly. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference
A plethoric, roving-eyed, and kindly man, clutching vainly at the garments of a youth that had long slipped past him. From Wordnik.com. [One Basket] Reference
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