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“Sure,” answered O’Brien, thumping down a plethoric sack by the side of Matthewson’s.

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He wasn't a good choice, because, as retired surgeon Harold Ellis wrote, he was “fat, plethoric, and with a liver no doubt very used to strong liquor.”

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For a start, he proposed shrinking by a third the body that was listening to him, France’s plethoric Parliament of over 900 members.

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When I spoke to him, he described a childhood rife with classic symptoms: hand washing, door locking, a plethoric concern with death.

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Around the lower end of Lake Chelan the big red apple, luscious peaches, plethoric pears, huge bunches of grapes, like the grapes of Eschol, make a picture of fruitfulness and delight.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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