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  • When I opened the door, I was shocked to see not a messenger, but the rotund figure of Mr. Goldbuttons.†   (source)
  • Seated cross-legged on a brocade pillow, wrapped in burgundy robes, was a short, rotund man with a shiny pate.†   (source)
  • Further, the culinary wizard of such a place as the Overlook, which advertised in the resort section of the New York Sunday Times, should be small, rotund, and pasty-faced (rather like the Pillsbury Dough-Boy); he should have a thin pencilline mustache like a forties musical comedy star, dark eyes, a French accent, and a detestable personality.†   (source)
  • Flames writhed inside a fireplace, before which sat a rotund woman in a wicker rocking chair-the town healer, Gertrude.†   (source)
  • Mike dumped out some flowfoam cubes and then removed some jewelry of the type I'd seen handcrafted on Renaissance Vector, an inertial compass, a laser pen which might or might not be labeled a concealed weapon by ShipSecurity, another Harlequin costume-this one tailored to his more rotund form "and a hawking mat.†   (source)
  • Junior was a rotund little man with a cherubic face, who was as smart as a whip and liked all over the town.†   (source)
  • Some Labs, especially those of the English variety, were so rotund by adulthood, they looked like they'd been inflated with an air hose and were ready to float down Fifth Avenue in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade.†   (source)
  • Bethell was a jovial, rotund man and when I first met him, I teased him about his stoutness.†   (source)
  • Randolph's face reminded me of the Man in the Moon from old black-and-white cartoons: pale and rotund, pitted and scarred, with a secretive smile that wasn't very friendly.†   (source)
  • He was about five-nine and rotund, with sunburned skin.†   (source)
  • 'You pompous, rotund, neighborly, vacuous, complacent…'†   (source)
  • He said you looked a little rotund.†   (source)
  • When Ralph Izard suggested that Adams himself be bestowed with a title, "His Rotundity," the joke rapidly spread.†   (source)
  • He was a short, rotund, bowlegged man with a bush of wild red hair, the father of one of Jaime's squires; the resemblance to the boy was unmistakeable.†   (source)
  • The bartender, a rotund light-skinned man with two small gold rings in one earlobe, a fresh, broad scar scratched across the bridge of his nose and a crooked grin on his face, stood back near the bottles with his arms crossed.†   (source)
  • And the horses, pathetically rotund, frozen, floating in time, bared their teeth in the fight, like dogs, as their enemies and their allies ascended quietly into the place of the imagination where their motion evaporated and left them infinitely wise.†   (source)
  • You can overdo anything, and when you can't get through the door because you're too rotund, you might ought to say, "I think I need to start eating a few salads."†   (source)
  • In the lobby waited a rotund, rabbinical-looking doctor in his late fifties.†   (source)
  • They were so fat their legs seemed dwarfed, and their woolly gray coats of puppy hair made them look even more rotund.†   (source)
  • He had grown swollen around the face and porkishly rotund in the midriff, and she noticed that those perfect fingers which, describing their gentle arabesques, had so mysteriously aroused her six years before seemed like rubbery little wurstlike stubs as he adjusted upon his head the gray Homburg that Scheffler obsequiously handed him.†   (source)
  • She was a short, gray-haired, rotund woman of weary carriage and a dignity appropriate to her remarkable birth.†   (source)
  • They drank to rotundity.†   (source)
  • The second guard, a rotund fellow with a scar down his right cheek, nodded.†   (source)
  • Hubert Humphrey was a rotund little man, whose jaw and arms seemed to be connected by a string.†   (source)
  • The rotund overseer of legal affairs shook Aringarosa's hand and motioned to the chair opposite him.†   (source)
  • "The Lady Meera of House Reed," the rotund guardsman bellowed over the clamor.†   (source)
  • So he says you smell like trees or calls you rotund.†   (source)
  • Then there was a rotund, old woman that Nana called Bibi jo, whose late husband had been a stone carver and friends with Nana's father.†   (source)
  • The Turk's rotund body was now resting at the bottom of the Sea of Marmara, feeding the blue manna crabs that migrated in through the Bosporus Strait.†   (source)
  • A senior Weekday Warrior named Holly Moser sketched nude self-portraits in charcoal pencil, portraying her rotund form in all its girth.†   (source)
  • Eragon positioned himself alongside the trunk so that the rotund galls of the tree's congealed blood bulged out in silhouette and were framed by a cluster of shiny new needles.†   (source)
  • Adams was pilloried in the Republican press as a gross and shameless monarchist—"His Rotundity," whose majestic appearance was so much "sesquipedality of belly," as said Bache's Aurora.†   (source)
  • They were little rotund men, almost all of them bald, who balanced on ammunition boxes and sheared the hair off the heads of the soldiers, who stood for their haircuts after waiting in long lines.†   (source)
  • In almost daily attacks in the Aurora, Adams was belittled as "The President by Three Votes," mocked again as "His Rotundity," excoriated as a base hypocrite, a tool of the British, "a man divested of his senses."†   (source)
  • The round-headed clouds never dwindled as they bowled along, but kept every atom of their rotundity.†   (source)
  • Squeezing his rotundity past the obstructing passengers he entered the compartment, Poirot close behind him.†   (source)
  • His questioners now were not ruffians in black uniforms but Party intellectuals, little rotund men with quick movements and flashing spectacles, who worked on him in relays over periods which lasted — he thought, he could not be sure — ten or twelve hours at a stretch.†   (source)
  • —the way The moon is made, and if men breathe and live In its rotund cucurbita?†   (source)
  • But his chuckle was not so rotund, and he was very attentive to the ammeter.†   (source)
  • She was exotic in an astrachan cap and a short beaver coat; she slid on the ice and shouted, and he panted after her, rotund with laughter….†   (source)
  • As the girl drew nearer to it, she gave without Jude perceiving it, an adroit little suck to the interior of each of her cheeks in succession, by which curious and original manoeuvre she brought as by magic upon its smooth and rotund surface a perfect dimple, which she was able to retain there as long as she continued to smile.†   (source)
  • Then, in a flash, I perceived that all had the same form of costume, the same soft hairless visage, and the same girlish rotundity of limb.†   (source)
  • The greatest manufacturer is but a busier Sam Clark, and all the rotund senators and presidents are village lawyers and bankers grown nine feet tall.†   (source)
  • Behind the city swept the rotund upland of St Catherine's Hill; further off, landscape beyond landscape, till the horizon was lost in the radiance of the sun hanging above it.†   (source)
  • It was at five in the afternoon and the place was crowded with merchants, actors, managers, politicians, a goodly company of rotund, rosy figures, silk-hatted, starchy-bosomed, beringed and bescarfpinned to the queen's taste.†   (source)
  • He spoke with rotund delivery.†   (source)
  • Natty, precise, well-brushed, conscious of being rather small amongst the long English, the lank Americans, the rotund Germans, and the obese Russian Jewesses, I should stand there, tapping a cigarette on the outside of my case, surveying for a moment the world in the sunlight.†   (source)
  • I have made the acquaintance of another one of the crew,—Louis he is called, a rotund and jovial-faced Nova Scotia Irishman, and a very sociable fellow, prone to talk as long as he can find a listener.†   (source)
  • When some days afterward in reference to the singularity just mentioned, the Purser, a rather ruddy rotund person more accurate as an accountant than profound as a philosopher, said at mess to the Surgeon, "What testimony to the force lodged in will-power," the latter—saturnine, spare and tall, one in whom a discreet causticity went along with a manner less genial than polite, replied, "Your pardon, Mr. Purser.†   (source)
  • But his figure fell into rotundity at the waist, his hair was scant and grey and his face, when the waves of expression had passed over it, had a ravaged look.†   (source)
  • Mr. Pitt, overweighted with cares of state, was finding brief relaxation in to-night's musical treat; the Prince of Wales, jovial, rotund, somewhat coarse and commonplace in appearance, moved about from box to box, spending brief quarters of an hour with those of his more intimate friends.†   (source)
  • "I certainly don't think that hotels are any place for boys," chirped up the wife of his bosom—a large and rotund person, who by this time was busily employed inspecting an adjoining room.†   (source)
  • To Tess's horror the dark queen began stripping off the bodice of her gown—which for the added reason of its ridiculed condition she was only too glad to be free of—till she had bared her plump neck, shoulders, and arms to the moonshine, under which they looked as luminous and beautiful as some Praxitelean creation, in their possession of the faultless rotundities of a lusty country-girl.†   (source)
  • "Well, George," said another rotund citizen, whose avoirdupois made necessary an almost alarming display of starched shirt bosom, "how goes it with you?"†   (source)
  • In the distance two figures were approaching "The Fisherman's Rest": one, an oldish man, with a curious fringe of grey hairs round a rotund and massive chin, and who walked with that peculiar rolling gait which invariably betrays the seafaring man: the other, a young, slight figure, neatly and becomingly dressed in a dark, many caped overcoat; he was clean-shaved, and his dark hair was taken well back over a clear and noble forehead.†   (source)
  • But then the glory of the morning once more—with its rotund and yellow sun rising over the waters of the lake—and in a cove across the lake wild ducks paddling about.†   (source)
  • Again there was Martha Bordaloue, a stocky, brisk Canadian-French girl of trim, if rotund, figure and ankles, hair of a reddish gold and eyes of greenish blue with puffy pink cheeks and hands that were plump and yet small.†   (source)
  • Sprawling in the foreground of the picture was a swarthy warrior in a helmet, specially conspicuous for his rotund contours.†   (source)
  • He had just finished dressing for his ride, and wore a blue uniform, opening in front over a white waistcoat so long that it covered his rotund stomach, white leather breeches tightly fitting the fat thighs of his short legs, and Hessian boots.†   (source)
  • To the level eye of humanity it stood as an indistinct mass behind a dense stockade of limes and chestnuts, set in the midst of miles of rotund down and concave field.†   (source)
  • In shape, he differs in some degree from the Huzza Porpoise, being of a less rotund and jolly girth; indeed, he is of quite a neat and gentleman-like figure.†   (source)
  • M. de la Rochefidele, whose old age was rosy and rotund, spoke very neatly and clearly, almost as prettily, Newman thought, as M. Nioche.†   (source)
  • There was, moreover, a boldness and rotundity of speech among these matrons, as most of them seemed to be, that would startle us at the present day, whether in respect to its purport or its volume of tone.†   (source)
  • The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dropped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves.†   (source)
  • As he stood, red, rotund, and radiant, before the small, wiry, cool old gentleman, he looked like a prize apple by the side of a withered crab.†   (source)
  • The beauty her features might have lacked in form was amply made up for by perfection of hue, which at this winter-time was the softened ruddiness on a surface of high rotundity that we meet with in a Terburg or a Gerard Douw; and, like the presentations of those great colourists, it was a face which kept well back from the boundary between comeliness and the ideal.†   (source)
  • One of the two who walked the road was she who had figured as the young wife of Henchard on the previous occasion; now her face had lost much of its rotundity; her skin had undergone a textural change; and though her hair had not lost colour it was considerably thinner than heretofore.†   (source)
  • As people stepped respectfully out of his way, I could see the rotund form of Arthur Duncan on the floor, limbs flailing convulsively, batting away the helpful hands of would-be assistants.†   (source)
  • And thou, all-shaking thunder, Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!†   (source)
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