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

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

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

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