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 Johnson, Frank Tenney

Vasilisa Vasena came every morning at seven o'clock; she was a country-woman of about thirty seven, strong, healthy, red-faced, reminiscent of a July day in her floridness and vigorous health.

From Tales of the Wilderness by Pilniak, Boris

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 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 Jepson, Edgar

The inside of the church is in singular contrast to the floridness of the outside.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum