This is to compress the bowels and increase their absorption, and it thus removes one principal cause of corpulency, which is the looseness of the skin.    From Wordnik.com.  [Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life] Reference

His form was portly, a little inclined to corpulency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Hatchie, the Guardian Slave; or, The Heiress of Bellevue] Reference

He was rather tall, and somewhat inclined to corpulency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wild Wales : Its People, Language and Scenery] Reference

The body is round and inclined to corpulency, without angles.    From Wordnik.com.  [How to Become Rich A Treatise on Phrenology, Choice of Professions and Matrimony] Reference

So did his person, which was sleek though free from corpulency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit] Reference

Others say that he died long afterwards, of too great corpulency.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Philosophical Dictionary] Reference

I recognized him at once by his corpulency and self - complacent air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stories by Foreign Authors: German — Volume 2] Reference

I believe no age did ever afford more instances of corpulency than our own.    From Wordnik.com.  [Gary Taubes responds to George Bray | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

His person was large, robust, I may say approaching to the gigantick, and grown unwieldy from corpulency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides] Reference

With unswerving decision, greys swallowed greens and greens greys, and extreme corpulency was the inevitable result.    From Wordnik.com.  [Tropic Days] Reference

Frequent purging would no doubt be a speedy and effectual means of reducing corpulency; but it is dangerous to proceed far this way by art.    From Wordnik.com.  [1760 diet revolution | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D.] Reference

The union of persons prone to corpulency, of dwarfs, etc., would have parallel results; and so, likewise, of weakly and attenuated couples.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ladies Book of Useful Information Compiled from many sources] Reference

‘“I tell you what, ” said he: “a thought has struck me; I have a daughter, more beautiful than the moon, round, large hipped, and greatly inclined to corpulency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan] Reference

Mediterranean, corpulency is the perfection of form in a woman; the very attributes which disgust the western European form the highest attractions of an Oriental fair.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Magnificent Montez From Courtesan to Convert] Reference

To keep down his corpulency, he took immoderate exercise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mediæval Wales Chiefly in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries: Six Popular Lectures] Reference

Rising on the 13th promises "a natural cure for corpulency.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Chicago Reader] Reference

Their walk is a waddle, and they bulge with seaming corpulency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mutiny of the Elsinore] Reference

In a few instances, natives attain to a considerable corpulency.    From Wordnik.com.  [Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Complete] Reference

I recognised him at once by his corpulency and self-complacent air.    From Wordnik.com.  [Peter Schlemihl] Reference

In spite of his corpulency Maslennikoff hurried quickly up the stairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Voskresenie. English] Reference

In person Schumann was of medium height, inclining to corpulency, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Popular History of the Art of Music From the Earliest Times Until the Present] Reference

A Belgian official much inclined to corpulency came out to take charge of a post.    From Wordnik.com.  [An African Adventure] Reference

The corpulency of the fish to which the same term is given explains its derivation.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Log of the Sun A Chronicle of Nature's Year] Reference

At that time he was past the prime of life, slightly gray, and inclined to corpulency.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Case of Summerfield] Reference

Paris had made him incline to corpulency, and his face was of a pale, unhealthy fullness.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bardelys the Magnificent; being an account of the strange wooing pursued by the Sieur Marcel de Saint-Pol, marquis of Bardelys...] Reference

I tried to imagine her handsome, which, but for her unfortunate corpulency, was actually true.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Writings of Abraham Lincoln — Volume 1: 1832-1843] Reference

Dr. Short mentions a lady who died of corpulency in her twenty-fifth year weighing over 50 stone (700 pounds).    From Wordnik.com.  [Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine] Reference

Mr John Forster was about the middle height, rather inclined to corpulency, but with great show of muscular strength.    From Wordnik.com.  [Newton Forster The Merchant Service] Reference

No man, however indulgent (as I am) to corpulency, ever worshipped a man as round as the sun or a woman as round as the moon.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Miscellany of Men] Reference

The two men, the one almost grotesquely tall, the other short of stature and already inclined toward corpulency, stared at each other.    From Wordnik.com.  [Poor White] Reference

Haj Ahmed is a man of about fifty, rather good-looking, stout and hard-working, but inclining to corpulency, very unusual in The Desert.    From Wordnik.com.  [Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846] Reference