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

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

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 Cather, Willa Sibert

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 Kleiser, Grenville

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