Lo, if she walk in the West, so cumbrous her corpulence is The. From Wordnik.com. [The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV] Reference
The gross corpulence of the Emperor began to snore. From Wordnik.com. [The Swordbearer]
But on account of his corpulence Colman declined his services. From Wordnik.com. [Musa Pedestris - Three Centuries of Canting Songs and Slang Rhymes [1536 - 1896]] Reference
Reflection is a harebrained handmaid of the day-to-day corpulence. From Wordnik.com. [To No Avail] Reference
Arthur may one day attain corpulence; he is already well rounded. From Wordnik.com. [A Voyage of Consolation (being in the nature of a sequel to the experiences of 'An American girl in London')] Reference
Enter the clink of coin and the unctuous corpulence of a roll of bills. From Wordnik.com. [From a Girl's Point of View] Reference
At six foot one he was a striking figure, despite the corpulence of middle age. From Wordnik.com. [Soul] Reference
In his personal life, Henry was known for his corpulence and for his six wives. From Wordnik.com. [Henry VIII] Reference
His hair was still black, his body inclined to corpulence, his face still white. From Wordnik.com. [I Am Legend]
He had retained a certain corpulence, but his body was flabby, with folds everywhere. From Wordnik.com. [Maigret in Society]
Awa is taken also as a medicine, and was supposed to be a certain cure for corpulence. From Wordnik.com. [The Hawaiian Archipelago] Reference
Despite their corpulence, or perhaps because of it, they were powerful men and fierce. From Wordnik.com. [River God]
They glut themselves to corpulence, to vomiting — the servants of the devil of greed. From Wordnik.com. [Mother] Reference
And, in general, those predisposed to corpulence are therefore less inclined to marriage. From Wordnik.com. [Searchlights on Health: Light on Dark Corners A Complete Sexual Science and a Guide to Purity and Physical Manhood, Advice To Maiden, Wife, And Mother, Love, Courtship, And Marriage] Reference
He was a man of about five and thirty, short, stout even to corpulence, and clean shaven. From Wordnik.com. [Crime and Punishment] Reference
His finery ended in a pile, and his corpulence lolled out grotesquely beneath the fabric. From Wordnik.com. [Mercadian Masques]
Eventually, the original beauty of the thing is lost within its own burgeoning corpulence. From Wordnik.com. [Short Fiction: Why Aren't You Buying It?] Reference
He was, moreover, strongly inclined to corpulence, and was clad in clumsy, ill-fitting garments. From Wordnik.com. [Monsieur Lecoq] Reference
The extreme corpulence of the defendant, too, offered an opportunity for gross personal allusions. From Wordnik.com. [The Story of Rome from the Earliest Times to the End of the Republic] Reference
From out of her corpulence, rose an effulgent girl in purple, spinning and spinning with brown hair. From Wordnik.com. [Magic X] Reference
Her figure was of medium height, threatened with corpulence, but still well-balanced, and well-made. From Wordnik.com. [A Daughter of Eve] Reference
The landlady vanished with a celerity that was rather remarkable, considering her extreme corpulence. From Wordnik.com. [My Life: or the Adventures of Geo. Thompson Being the Auto-Biography of an Author. Written by Himself.] Reference
Though the doctors warned him that with his corpulence wine was dangerous for him, he drank a great deal. From Wordnik.com. [War and Peace] Reference
They are presumably men of a certain age, some of them must be of a certain corpulence, and it seems to me. From Wordnik.com. [Punch, Or The London Charivari, Volume 101, July 11, 1891] Reference
Crown Prince Dietrich received, a plain-faced middle-aged man whose stoutness was turning into corpulence. From Wordnik.com. [A Knight of Ghosts and Shadows]
Dr Fillgrave was not a tall man, and was perhaps rather more inclined to corpulence than became his height. From Wordnik.com. [Doctor Thorne] Reference
Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center got back to us with a link to that study on corpulence in the corps. From Wordnik.com. [Four More Years] Reference
The huge corpulence of that Hogarthian monster undulates on the surface, scarcely drawing one inch of water. From Wordnik.com. [Moby Dick; or the Whale] Reference
Reminded me of the pustulent corpulence in the original Dune film – Baron Von Harkonnen (Kenneth McMillan). From Wordnik.com. [Sheri Myers Strikes Again: Turdblossom Part 1] Reference
Thus the Duke of Lauderdale is said, through old age but immense corpulence, to have become so sunk in spirits. From Wordnik.com. [Redgauntlet] Reference
Nonetheless, corpulence had crept up on him in his thirties, as with many of us today, despite his best efforts. From Wordnik.com. ['Good Calories, Bad Calories'] Reference
The accident of time might have helped him as well — his immense corpulence might have come with his later years. From Wordnik.com. [The Woman in White] Reference
He was large generally, but his midriff was of a vast and pendulous corpulence out of proportion to the rest of him. From Wordnik.com. [Salvage for the Saint]
Apollonitch is a little, fattish, bald old man of a respectable corpulence, with a double chin and little soft hands. From Wordnik.com. [A Sportsman's Sketches] Reference
Lady Devine, too — notwithstanding her corpulence — had promised to visit Richard weekly and report on his progress. From Wordnik.com. [Ultima Thule] Reference
To hear her, people of respectable corpulence were incapable of sentiment, bad husbands, and unfit for civilized society. From Wordnik.com. [The Ball at Sceaux] Reference
Consequently he disguised himself by wearing green spectacles and tying a pillow over his stomach to simulate corpulence. From Wordnik.com. [The Life of Sir Richard Burton] Reference
He already too approached the period of maturity in age and intellect, and was rapidly acquiring a respectable corpulence. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847] Reference
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