Dirk burst into the flat like a small podgy tornado. From Wordnik.com. [Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency]
Mr. Punt exclaimed, shaking a podgy forefinger at him. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 156, January 29, 1919] Reference
He raised a podgy palm to arrest my run of falsehoods. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
But Paulette clasped both Dudley's podgy hands in hers. From Wordnik.com. [The La Chance Mine Mystery] Reference
He had little podgy arms lying on top of the eiderdown. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Frost]
His ankle had been caught; he kicked out into a podgy face. From Wordnik.com. [HOTHOUSE]
I have a podgy post-baby tummy - loose skin flopping around. From Wordnik.com. [How Un-Ladylike!] Reference
"You don't say so, Don Ernesto!" said his podgy, putty-faced little. From Wordnik.com. [Argentina from a British Point of View] Reference
I am not sure but he is the most good-natured, though he is so podgy. From Wordnik.com. [Ayala's Angel] Reference
Our freed woman podgy face glowed with satisfaction at disturbing me. From Wordnik.com. [A Body In The Bath House]
"Suppose he were shot by a sentry?" squeaks he, waving his podgy hands. From Wordnik.com. [Flashman And The Mountain Of Light]
The podgy man would have fondled, except Jennie did a neat interception. From Wordnik.com. [The Great California Game]
Hey, as long as that podgy has-been Kevin Costner isn't in it, we're there!. From Wordnik.com. [The Eight-Day Week] Reference
He was brown and white, big, stout and podgy but very smart and intelligent. From Wordnik.com. [Sterling Raju] Reference
He is a stumpy, short, podgy man; but then so also was my Arab friend at Suez. From Wordnik.com. [Tales of all countries] Reference
Pot-au-Feu clapped his podgy hands and a fourth girl appeared who carried a tray. From Wordnik.com. [Sharpe's Enemy]
The photograph showed a podgy-faced man in his early thirties scowling at the camera. From Wordnik.com. [Hard Frost]
Mr. Saunderson brought the tips of his red, podgy fingers together with great exactness. From Wordnik.com. [Christopher Hibbault, Roadmaker] Reference
The hobbit showed his podgy face after all, I'm currently watching him slaughter Steve Davis. From Wordnik.com. [calmish Diary Entry] Reference
The plump merchant returned the look for a moment, then waved a podgy hand in airy dismissal. From Wordnik.com. [Dragonfly in Amber]
When he looked back at me, he would have seen a podgy 21-year-old lying in bed, reading Proust. From Wordnik.com. [Once upon a life: Toby Litt] Reference
Very insulted that you would think my husband is old and slightly podgy with perverse tendancies. From Wordnik.com. [The Trav Randall Caption Competition] Reference
It's all hum-drum, and podgy, and slow-going, any going so long as you get there heaven knows when. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 19] Reference
I wish I had had a shake of that trembling podgy hand somehow before he went upon his sea martyrdom. From Wordnik.com. [Notes of a Journey From Cornhill to Grand Cairo] Reference
She was sitting on the packing-case, her podgy body swaying as the truck staggered round the bend and vanished. From Wordnik.com. [More Work for the Undertaker]
What she was trying to prove I don't know, but supposed it was merely competition with that podgy businessman of hers. From Wordnik.com. [The Vatican Rip]
‘Getting married!’ he articulated in a voice thick with astonishment, and he folded his podgy hands on his stomach. From Wordnik.com. [The Torrents of Spring] Reference
The podgy figure encased in a skin-tight red leotard, the bloated belly - how can anyone take this clown seriously? barking toad. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
Junius Claudius Maro regarded the balding, podgy little man with a look fit to petrify absolutely that fellow's already chilled cobblers. From Wordnik.com. [Smart Dragons, Foolish Elves]
At her throat, cruelly, relentlessly doing their murderous work, are a pair of hands -- ugly, podgy hands, but with what power behind them!. From Wordnik.com. [Uncanny Tales] Reference
Vanishing porkers: Male stars lose their podgy torsos masculine issue now. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Record 1 billion go hungry, says UN] Reference
Compare me to Kate Moss and all of those supermodels and, yes, I probably am on the podgy side. From Wordnik.com. [Femalefirst.co.uk - Celebrity Gossip + Lifestyle Magazine] Reference
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