floridness

Example Sentences

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The nave, the choir and chevet, and chapels, are all of a bareness which only exaggerates the floridness of these other appendages.

From The Cathedrals of Northern France by McManus, Blanche

It was in accordance with his floridness that he always retained the gold band about his cigar while he smoked it.

From Running Water by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

Yet, after a time, this dullness frequently gives way to a fiery redness; not the floridness of health, but the redness of inflammation and false excitement, which indicates a corresponding depreciation of the mental faculties.

From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by Fowler, L. N.

In the hot summer light his floridness seemed heavy and bloated, and but for his erect square-shouldered walk he would have looked like an over-fed and over-dressed old man.

From The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith

He was short and thick-set, young, quite fair, inclined already to floridness of skin.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney