All 9 Uses of
corpulent
in
Of Human Bondage
- He was a man of somewhat less than average height, inclined to corpulence, with his hair, worn long, arranged over the scalp so as to conceal his baldness.†
Chpt 3-4
- It was accepted like one boy's red hair and another's unreasonable corpulence.†
Chpt 11-12
- He was a man of middle height and of a corpulent figure; he had sandy hair, worn very short and now growing gray, and a small bristly moustache.†
Chpt 15-16 *
- He was fond of inviting them to tea; and, though vowing they never got a look in with him at the cakes and muffins, for it was the fashion to believe that his corpulence pointed to a voracious appetite, and his voracious appetite to tapeworms, they accepted his invitations with real pleasure.†
Chpt 17-18
- From force of habit, though the small studio with the stove lit was very hot, he kept on his great-coat, with the collar turned up, and his bowler hat: he looked with satisfaction on the four large fiaschi of Chianti which stood in front of him in a row, two on each side of a bottle of whiskey; he said it reminded him of a slim fair Circassian guarded by four corpulent eunuchs.†
Chpt 47-48
- There were many Jews, stout ladies in tight satin dresses and diamonds, little corpulent men with a gesticulative manner.†
Chpt 73-74
- He had been rather corpulent, but now he had a dried-up, yellow look: the skin of his neck was loose and winkled; his clothes hung about him as though they had been bought for someone else; and his collar, three or four sizes too large, added to the slatternliness of his appearance.†
Chpt 81-82
- He was middle-aged, short and corpulent, with a black beard and dark, greasy hair.†
Chpt 99-100
- It was the family joke that she would be as fat as an aunt of Mrs. Athelny, called Aunt Elizabeth, whom the children had never seen but regarded as the type of obscene corpulence.†
Chpt 101-102
Definition:
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(corpulent) with excessive body fat