floridness
Example Sentences
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In oratory, notwithstanding a tendency to more than Milesian floridness and hyperbole, they have taken no mean stand among the free nations of christendom.
From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various
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
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 old, worn, faded, carefully polished furniture, for the most part of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, seemed abashed in the presence of his floridness.
From The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson
Frau Lichtenfeld shone in a gown of emerald green, fitting so closely as to enhance her natural floridness.
From The Troll Garden and Selected Stories by Willa Sibert Cather
