Portly implies a kind of stoutness or corpulence which gives a dignified or imposing appearance.
My letter is so thick that I must send it away before its corpulence becomes 'impayable.
Fourth: Stealing unawares upon the whale in the fancied security of the middle of solitary seas, you find him unbent from the vast corpulence of his dignity, and kitten-like, he plays on the ocean as if it were a hearth.
The huge corpulence of that Hogarthian monster undulates on the surface, scarcely drawing one inch of water.
He was stout, but his great height enabled him to carry his corpulence with dignity.
The governor of Hawaii, Kona-Keni, was a man of goodly presence and pleasing face; his height was almost gigantic and his corpulence enormous, so much so that he could scarcely support himself upon his legs.
On the rare occasions when he divested himself of his superfluous integuments, he caused infinite perplexity to his less intimate friends, who could not account for his rapid transition from corpulence to tenuity.
Laughing at two unwieldly noblemen whose corpulencewas the favourite jest of all the wits in the court, Louis XV.
His corpulence and his enthusiasm for the bulls had caused him to retire from the service.
He hid behind the corpulence of Nacional who rode silent and frowning.
He tells us that he was disposed to "corpulence by the whole race of one side" of his family.
His eyes vacant and spiritless, and the corpulence of his whole person, was far better fitted to communicate the idea of a turtle-eating alderman, than of a refined philosopher.
The vivacity of his movements made his huge corpulencesubtly alarming.
The corpulence which had been his before was become now a positive disease.
He was clearly not old, though his corpulence added to his apparent age.
Gout, corpulence and allied metabolic disorders, those fruitful sources of cardio-vascular disorders and atheroma, call for temperance not only in drinking but in eating.
Erasmus states that the Gordii carried their admiration for corpulence to such an extent, that they raised the fattest amongst them to the throne.
Professor Mascagni attributed his corpulence to his constant attendance on dissections; he also excused his amorous propensities on similar grounds.
For the prevention of corpulence and the reduction of superfluous fat many expedients have been resorted to, and numerous remedies recommended.
But the effect was a recurrence of his former corpulence and ill health.
He was fat, with a broad-shouldered corpulence which would have been far less noticeable in a man who was a few inches taller.
He was fat, with a broad-shouldered corpulence which would have been less noticeable in a man who was some inches taller.
The shape of the head was particularly reminiscent, the growing corpulence of body was indicated, the hair of the stiff wig waved as Lothian's living hair waved.
To appreciate the passage, bear in mind that the Hottentots are the people among whom excessive posterior corpulence (steatopyga) is especially admired as the acme of physical attractions.
This interpretation is borne out by what was said on a previous page (278) about one of the reasons why corpulence is valued in Fiji, and also by an amusing incident related by the eminent Australian explorer George Grey (II.
Great was the joy when, as dusk was falling on the second day out, a Calabrian who had won fortune and corpulence as a grocer in Harlem, clambered on deck, straining affectionately to his bosom a black box with megaphone attachment.
Stature higher than that of the other islanders, tendency to corpulence greater.
He thrust his hand into his bosom and drew forth numerous rouleaux--so many that I thought his corpulence might well be a plethora of coin.
There is something mysteriously associated with happiness not only in the corpulence of Falstaff and the corpulence of Tony Weller, but even in the red nose of Bardolph or the red nose of Mr. Stiggins.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corpulence" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: body; bulk; coarseness; depth; mass; thickness
