Would you have thought that so much sesquipedality could die?. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859] Reference
Why, Dr. Slop's abdominal sesquipedality was sylph-like grace to the Lambertian girth she displays. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 100, February, 1866] Reference
He taxed Adams for obesity, referring to him as "His Rotundity," the possessor of a "sesquipedality of belly.". From Wordnik.com. [Founders Chic] Reference
But enough of this rhapsodizing on sesquipedality. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3] Reference
Mencken, Nabokov, Edmund Wilson, John Updike, and many another masterly writer for dabbling in sesquipedality. From Wordnik.com. [VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol X No 3] Reference
His height was certainly not remarkable; but his width of shoulder -- his sesquipedality of stomach -- and obesity of calf -- these were unique!. From Wordnik.com. [Rookwood] Reference
"The sesquipedality of that word is trying to all of us, I fancy, and I am in the same box as the lady; for I am as sure as she is that I don't know the meaning of the word," added the professor. From Wordnik.com. [Asiatic Breezes Students on The Wing] Reference
A division of the syllables, as follows: valetudinarian, indefatigability, hypochondriacal, metempsychosis, hallucination, zoonomia, sesquipedality. From Wordnik.com. [Parker's Second Reader National Series of Selections for Reading, Designed For The Younger Classes In Schools, Academies, &C.] Reference
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