East long enough to get pursy and to lose his wind. From Wordnik.com. [Frontier Boys in Frisco] Reference
He not shall know to march, he is pursy, he is foundered. From Wordnik.com. [Of phrasebooks, battleship lieutenants and lightning-struck postillions] Reference
He had wiry salt-and-pepper hair and a pursy look to his mouth. From Wordnik.com. [toxic] Reference
He was middle-aged, pursy, and dressed with slap-dash ostentation. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
"I do!" from a pursy passenger with a double chin and a heavy fob-chain. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 50, December, 1861] Reference
Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and pursy. From Wordnik.com. [Les Miserables] Reference
The pursy old cardinal furnishes the surviving one of the two main props of. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 097, January, 1876] Reference
He obeyed, leading his pursy bride by a string which he tied around her neck. From Wordnik.com. [Traditions of the North American Indians, Vol. 3 (of 3)] Reference
Hume grew too pursy to write, so our four-footed friend became too gross to climb. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 364, April 4, 1829] Reference
Belloniere promised me a lanner, but he wrote to me not long ago that he was become pursy. From Wordnik.com. [Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel] Reference
After a time we overtook a pursy little man, shaped not unlike a toad and mounted on a mule. From Wordnik.com. [The Alhambra] Reference
"A traitor to his country, too," said a pursy little man opposite, snapping his jaws shut like a turtle. From Wordnik.com. [The Nest Builder] Reference
They would have persuaded me I was in purgatory, but I knew too well the pursy short-breathed voice of the. From Wordnik.com. [Ivanhoe] Reference
The head waiter came hovering, his face split with a smile, his hands fluttering before him like large pursy moths. From Wordnik.com. [Madam Will You Talk]
On the bank appeared a short, crummy, pursy kind of man, whose efforts to board the steamer were notably ridiculous. From Wordnik.com. [Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah] Reference
But the mention of water-cresses, kales, gooseberries, currants, &c., by old writers, appears to invalidate the pursy historian. From Wordnik.com. [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 346, December 13, 1828] Reference
On his right was thin, sickly Victor, rest his soul! and on the other pursy, thick-necked John, as merry a soul as Cork ever turned out. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by American Authors, Volume 6] Reference
And where dost thou lay they pursy sides? said she. From Wordnik.com. [Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded] Reference
Sheryl Crow has Grayson "pursy whipped," according to Jules. From Wordnik.com. [E! Online (US) - Top Stories]
The generous living of Dawson had made him pursy, almost porcine. From Wordnik.com. [The Trail of '98 A Northland Romance] Reference
I won't say that it had grown pursy, but it had run to seed somehow. From Wordnik.com. [Foe-Farrell] Reference
Crito the fat mine-contractor, and finally Polus, gray and pursy, who. From Wordnik.com. [A Victor of Salamis] Reference
He had the man's pursy large face for ever in his consciousness; the vision of it was. From Wordnik.com. [Those Who Smiled And Eleven Other Stories] Reference
He began to get pursy and red-faced, and was clicking it off with his fifth set of young fellows. From Wordnik.com. [In Our Town] Reference
Thither let your good sheep go, your echoes, your wag-tail dogs, your wealthy pursy manufacturers!. From Wordnik.com. [Beauchamp's Career — Complete] Reference
It sees you a portly, pursy, foolish Undine struggling awkwardly from out a cyclopean vat of beer. From Wordnik.com. [Europe After 8:15] Reference
My Lord Belloniere promised me a lanner, but he wrote to me not long ago that he was become pursy. From Wordnik.com. [Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 1] Reference
Ah! I was very different to the fat, pursy, old ale-wife who discourses with you now -- in the glass. From Wordnik.com. [The Strange Adventures of Captain Dangerous, Vol. 1 of 3 Who was a sailor, a soldier, a merchant, a spy, a slave among the moors...] Reference
There parade the pursy peacocks; they don't cough down here in desertion and darkness, like poor old me. From Wordnik.com. [The Confidence-Man] Reference
Mr Arthur Jollyboy was there -- of course; and the vicar was there; and the pursy doctor who used to call. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Rattler] Reference
About the middle of the afternoon the bear war-party came in sight, led on by the pursy king, and making a tremendous noise. From Wordnik.com. [The Indian Fairy Book From the Original Legends] Reference
The latter, a pursy individual, was holding out an arm somewhat in the attitude of a seal's flipper; but Lilith did not take it. From Wordnik.com. [The Sign of the Spider] Reference
Not so the doctor, a pursy little man with a terrific frown, who hated boys, especially little ones, with a very powerful hatred. From Wordnik.com. [Martin Rattler] Reference
Neal's guide, the sovereign's pursy and excited secretary, led the horse down the side street, along which the people were hurrying. From Wordnik.com. [The Northern Iron] Reference
It was a scene characteristic of the end of the nineteenth century -- an overfed, commonplace, pursy little man who had been born in. From Wordnik.com. [The Grand Babylon Hotel] Reference
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