Of course, the "Epithalamium" she was going to sing was as florid as it could be.
It was not until her father began to play the offertory, one of Schubert's beautiful inspirations, that she noticed the look of real delight that held the florid profile till the last note, and for some seconds after.
The leading treble had a hard, unsympathetic voice, which did not suit the florid passages occurring three times on the second syllable of the word Eleison.
Florid counterpoint is a mixture of the second, third and fourth species.
It quite lacks the simplicity and sensuousness of Milton's canon, and as for passion, it is florid rather than passionate.
Schiller had been impressed by an actor's criticism of his florid and violent language.
Finding that philosophers have been unjust to the body, he comes to its rescue,--expounding good doctrine in an interesting though rather florid and unprofessional style.
There is the same tearing of passion to tatters, the same predilection for florid rhetoric in the sentimental passages, and for frenzied talk and action in passages of more violent emotion.
Let us hope there will be no trouble about that," was the polite response, and the florid man lapsed into silence.
I don't care who hears me," said the florid man angrily.
It is a good deal to say, but I believe our own jerry-builders are outdone in florid vulgarity by German villadom, and the German atrocities will last longer than ours, because the building laws are more stringent.
It was not as florid and fussy as our expensive restaurants.
But if she has money only she can buy florid pretentious stuff that outdoes in ugliness the worst productions of our "suite" sellers.
Florid and bearded and masked by the dark blue glasses, he met the visitor, and at once took him familiarly under the arm.
Footnote 208: This couplet alludes to the preachers of some recent Court Sermons of a florid panegyrical character; also to some speeches of a like kind, some parts of both of which were afterwards incorporated in an address to the monarch.
For this our senators make long harangues, And florid members whet their polished tongues.
That florid Adonis never grew used to hearing a gentle voice singing softly: "Get your hair cut!
Alloway put his hands in his pockets, and stood stolidly with his legs wide apart, a picture of florid manliness and grim, but whiskered determination.
Courtnay's florid face had already lost a little colour at the mere intrusion of his inveterate persecutor that alone presaged disaster; at his words his eyes displayed a lively, but uncomfortable tendency to start out of his head.
His florid face became quickly florider, and he cried, "You impudent young dog!
The third person at their table was a handsome young man, with glossy black hair, a high-coloured, florid face, and a roving black eye.
On an easel is displayed a florid and somewhat suggestive picture of Venus and Cupid richly framed.
A pair of highly-coloured damsels, redundant in charms and florid finery, are peering out of an upper window at the aged visitor.
Both address the court in floridand high-flown rhetoric and display rare erudition in quoting Aristotle, Pausanias and other ancient as well as modern authorities.
He quotes some florid lines from the poet Altiat descriptive of these devastating swarms, which "came, after so many other woes, under the leadership of Eurus (i.
She gave a little start at sight of de Cazalet, whose stalwart form and florid good looks were by no means obnoxious to her taste.
This no doubt was the kind of Inn at which he loved to take his ease--a house full of silly women, ready to be subjugated by his florid good looks and shallow accomplishments.
He was a tall but thin bending figure, with a florid benevolent countenance, and a quantity of long white hair.
His Lordship's florid countenance turned as pale as that of his companion.
When you look at him, you are not surprised to learn that he is not a florid orator nor a smart debater--he is a "weighty speaker.
Paris, 1608) a florid description of the provinces of Aquitain and Novempopulania.
This florid and fabulous writer (perhaps a monk of Amiens--see the Abbe le Boeuf, Mem.
Amelius had turned to the strange ashy paleness which is only seen in men of his florid complexion, overwhelmed by sudden emotion.
One of the two was a smart young man in a cheap travelling suit; mainly noticeable by his florid complexion, his restless dark eyes, and his profusely curling black hair.
Brown says: "Whenever the anaesthetic influence began to subside, the surface of the brain presented a florid and injected appearance.
In number one the vessels remained moderately distended and florid for almost an hour, and then the brain slowly regained its ordinary appearance.
Manuel raised from looking at the water just the handsome and florid young face which Manuel had seen reflected in the water.
So Manuel of the high head comes into the country of wicked King Ferdinand; and, toward All-Hallows, they bring a stupendousflorid young man to the King in the torture-chamber.
Now in all this highly organized and florid art there was a general abandonment of the constructional principle which had been the root of the earlier Gothic, and there was no new constructional device or system invented to take its place.
The other tower was rebuilt at a much later period and typifies perfectly the florid Gothic of the fifteenth century.
It is only with the beginning of the florid Gothic that this wholesome frame of mind can no longer be retained.
In the famous south porch of the cathedral at Albi, thisflorid Gothic has reached its culmination.
His cellars adjoin the château, a picturesque but somewhat neglected structure of the last century, with sculptured medallions in high relief above the lower windows, and florid vases surmounting the mansards in the roof.
The church is ancient and curious, and a few quaint old houses are here and there met with, notably one with a florid Gothic window enriched with a moulding of grapes and vine-leaves.
My father met Prince Ernest with a florid story of a reckless student, either asleep or too anxious to secure a particular volume, and showed his usual consideration by not asking me to verify the narrative.
A brother-in-law of our host was waiting for us: in his wake we mounted the ladder-like stairs and entered a long room with a florid French carpet and a set of gilt furniture to match.
On a gaudy modern Rabat carpet stood gilt armchairs of floriddesign and a table bearing a commercial bronze of the "art goods" variety.
