I spotted the corpulent form of William Major, comfortably filling his favorite chair and sipping a brandy. From LearnThat.org. [www.yourdictionary.com]
And while now we say "overweight" instead of "corpulent" -- and obesity has become epidemic. From Wordnik.com. [150 years of dieting fads and still no quick fix - Yahoo! Finance] Reference
All these ladies were remarkably corpulent, which is considered here as the highest mark of beauty. From Wordnik.com. [Life and Travels of Mungo Park in Central Africa] Reference
Conservatives are properly referred to as "corpulent". From Wordnik.com. [Is Kevin Drum a Clinton sycophant?] Reference
Her figure was corpulent, and her hands were soiled. From Wordnik.com. [Famous Women: George Sand] Reference
And you shall find it physical; a corpulent, fat man. From Wordnik.com. [Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce] Reference
A corpulent figure that gobbles entire troughs of truffles!. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from The Vicious Circulation of Dr Catastrope] Reference
The corpulent Peter MacDonald wheezed, "Well, out with it!". From Wordnik.com. [Adaptation] Reference
The impossibly corpulent one, Don Mathers vaguely recognized. From Wordnik.com. [Medal of Honor] Reference
His corpulent body was covered with short Turkish trousers, and. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
Alas! corpulent means nothing as far as Mephibosheth is concerned. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, March 23, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
I did as he desired, and was presented to a corpulent old quiz of a. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
"Art so solicitous, thou corpulent scrimp!" grumbled he of the boar. From Wordnik.com. [Under the Rose] Reference
Here, then, was the corpulent country-girl his imagination had fancied!. From Wordnik.com. [The Silver Lining A Guernsey Story] Reference
The corpulent velvet dark mass and obtruding figure is most unpleasant. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 54, No. 334, August 1843] Reference
Those of gouty or corpulent tendencies will find these of especial use. From Wordnik.com. [Papers on Health] Reference
The house of the hostess triumphs, and is corpulent of wealth and splendor. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
With a quick smile I looked toward our rather corpulent guest across the table. From Wordnik.com. [Ohio Arbor Day 1913: Arbor and Bird Day Manual Issued for the Benefit of the Schools of our State] Reference
"H'm," say the corpulent, "why can't they leave well alone and be comfortable?". From Wordnik.com. [Spirit and Music] Reference
The corpulent visitor had long since resigned the effort to keep within hearing. From Wordnik.com. [Recollections With Photogravure Portrait of the Author and a number of Original Letters, of which one by George Meredith and another by Robert Louis Stevenson are reproduced in facsimile] Reference
Apoplexy occurs only in the corpulent or obese, and those of gross or high living. 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
But he was a corpulent man, and the sun affected him so much that he fell down on the way. From Wordnik.com. [Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs] Reference
The Captain was stout, and so corpulent that I should not underrate his weight at 260 pounds. From Wordnik.com. [Narrative of the shipwreck of the brig Betsey, of Wiscasset, Maine, and murder of five of her crew, by pirates, on the coast of Cuba, Dec. 1824.] Reference
Muffins stood in a shining pile upon the fender, and a corpulent teapot on the top of the oven. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Oldfield Lost and Found] Reference
Friend Howitt favoured us a year or two ago with a corpulent volume -- translated in part from the. From Wordnik.com. [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844] Reference
"You're wasting your time," the corpulent billionaire, 51, told agents at his villa near Monterrey. From Wordnik.com. [Handing Off A Hot Case] Reference
The last of our kind, evolving flightless we remain on the ground, culling through corpulent consumption. From Wordnik.com. [Going the Way of the Dodo] Reference
The elder was about forty and extremely corpulent, while her companion was younger as well as more comely. From Wordnik.com. [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference
The boys propose to have a barbecue to-morrow, and roast a corpulent, good-natured Ethiopian, named Cæsar. From Wordnik.com. [The Citizen-Soldier or, Memoirs of a Volunteer] Reference
He is so corpulent, that he is scarcely able to dismount, and he excites the curiosity and amusement of all. From Wordnik.com. [The Standard Operaglass Detailed Plots of One Hundred and Fifty-one Celebrated Operas] Reference
"Here I have grown quite corpulent during the lazy life I have been leading; I must not let the men see me.". From Wordnik.com. [Short Sketches from Oldest America] Reference
The corpulent porter in his blue blouse stood exactly where he was now standing, jealously guarding the door. From Wordnik.com. [The Triflers] Reference
He is described as a short, corpulent old man, bald-headed, with a flat nose, prominent forehead and long ears. From Wordnik.com. [Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed)] Reference
Now one has got her black box, another her corpulent carpet-bag -- a third exults in a victory over her band-box. From Wordnik.com. [An Outcast or, Virtue and Faith] Reference
He relates in the unpretending style of a chronicler how the corpulent citizens reside on the hill-tops, amid well-tended gardens. From Wordnik.com. [Maxim Gorki] Reference
Some of the men, grown corpulent and gray, I recognized with the old feeling of reverence and love, and stopped to speak with them. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
When he was sick, his replacement was the owner of the music studio, a corpulent woman who looked like Patsy Cline without the makeup. From Wordnik.com. [My Bossa Nova Years] Reference
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