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
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 Boris Pilniak
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
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
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 Blanche McManus
