floridness
Example Sentences
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He was short and thick-set, young, quite fair, inclined already to floridness of skin.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
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 L. N. Fowler
His rhetoric has been criticized for floridness and sensationalism, but his word pictures held multitudes of people spellbound as in the presence of a master.
From The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little by Grenville Kleiser
Ornament -- N. ornament; floridness c†. adj.. turgidity, turgescence†; altiloquence &c. adj.†; declamation, teratology†; well-rounded periods; elegance &c.
From Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget
It was well that Mrs. Dangerfield kept Captain Baster waiting; it gave the purple tinge, which was heightening his floridness somewhat painfully, time to fade.
From The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson
