We learn from this passage, says Tyrwhitt, that Chaucer 'was used to look much upon the ground; that he was of a corpulent habit; and reserved in his behaviour.
You must make up your mind to get stout this summer--indeed I have an idea we shall both be corpulent old folks with triple chins and stumpy thumbs.
It is a corpulent Little beast whom it is necessary to coax along with an ivory-tipp'd cane.
But to their horror they at the same time observed that corpulent Baron von Willen, from whom, in the afternoon, the young counsellor had with difficulty got away.
You know," replied the other, "that it is impossible to get away in a hurry from our corpulent friend the Baron, when he begins to relate anecdotes of his life.
The dance was now over, and the corpulent host tumbled down exhausted upon a sopha.
He distributed whacks of his ferule with an agility no one could have expected on the part of so corpulent a person.
I recognized the man at once by the lustre of his corpulent self-complacency.
Before this time, I have always especially disliked corpulent humanity.
There was nothing about Caffiard to suggest a deus ex machina, or anything else, for that matter, except a preposterously corpulent old gentleman with an amiable smile.
There's something in it," said a corpulent butcher with huge, pursy, prominent eyes and a portentous stomach.
This fellow was a very short, corpulent person, with a neck so fat that a pillow of flesh lay under the back of his head.
I spied the corpulent figure of Jans, the boatswain, forward of the fore-mast.
The gross, corpulent Prince Regent has thrown down his traditional three feathers, and is, like the ex-Emperor, stripped for the fight.
Allow the Scolia-grub the same unlicensed gluttony: it would perish beside its corpulent victim, which should have kept fresh for a fortnight, but which almost from the beginning would be no more than a filthy putrescence.
This is the game I want, a corpulent prey, of a size suited to the Scolia and, what is more, in splendid condition, artistically paralysed according to rule by a master among masters.
The arch is a little too narrow to embrace almost the whole circumference of her corpulent prey; and she renews her attempts and efforts for a long time.
A huntress like this will need a corpulent quarry: perhaps the Silky Epeira (E.
The corpulent frame of this mighty burgher now gave all the symptoms of a volcanic mountain on the point of an eruption.
He was a bluff, red-visaged, corpulent man, with a face of gross, unmitigated sensuality.
The report and the light brought the corpulent captain into the neighborhood.
And the old man, who could scarcely stand on his legs, dragged his corpulent body ponderously round the table, and laid both hands on Leo's shoulders.
He was a corpulent man of over sixty, tall, with massive shoulders and a red, coarse neck.
As they walked up side by side to the portico, the parson whose corpulent figure swayed from side to side, appeared of more massive and powerful build than his old pupil, although the latter towered half a head over him.
To be of tall stature and corpulent with it, denotes him to be not only handsome but valiant also, but of no extraordinary understanding, and which is worst of all, ungrateful and trepanning.
For the same reason corpulent women have but few menses.
Why do such as are corpulent cast forth but little seed in the act of copulation, and are often barren?
I soon saw the corpulent Monsieur de Mauleon busily writing his name upon the register in characters worthy of Monsieur Prudhomme; the other members of the little party followed his example.
The brutality which he had displayed to the corpulent dwarf pleasured him.
As we have above indicated, however, it is not wise, as many corpulent people do in their efforts to get rid of this superabundance of fat, to make up for their restriction by an increase in the quantity of meat consumed.
They were all brimful of health, squarely built, sleek, in prime condition; and in their turn they looked at Florent with the uneasy astonishment which corpulent people feel at the sight of a scraggy person.
Those who are no more corpulent than we are don't take up much room in the sunlight, eh?
She put them in her apron, which she held closely pressed to her person, thus making herself look yet more corpulent than she was; and for some time longer she lingered there, still gossiping in a drawling voice.
In corpulent females the tumour is sometimes scarcely prominent, and is only discovered as a flattened cake through the fatty matter.
