The commissary gloated at the rotund wine-skin, but made no sign of opening it.
The priests scowled at Jack as he approached; the lean Santiago Sass and the rotund Padre Consolacion looked at him with equal distrust.
He regained some of his plump, sage swagger, his rotund phraseology, his autocratic dogmatism in matters AEsculapian.
The rotund soul turned his face suddenly earthwards, as though he had been jerked down by one leg out of heaven.
On the lower step of the gallery stair stood a rotund little man, with a bunch of keys reposing on his stomach, the light from a lantern overhead shining on his bald pate, as on a half sphere of alabaster.
My letters were from men high in authority, purple-robed and rotund supporters of our good Alma Mater, and met with all due respect.
With rivers of perspiration pouring down his rotund countenance, like spring freshets down the side of a mountain, he gallantly piloted Georgiana through the mazes of the waltz.
Mr. and Mrs. Duffy stood arm in arm, smiling with proud pleasure, as rotund as their own round oranges.
It is in this kind of artificial infinity, I believe, we ought to look for the cause why a rotund has such a noble effect.
Mr. Addison, in the Spectators concerning the pleasures of the imagination, thinks it is because in the rotund at one glance you see half the building.
It is a rotund mollusc with frail white valves, closely fitting the cavity in which it lives.
Most are still fairly rotundand compact, and appear to be weather-proof, while others are already loopholed and ragged.
It is the evidence of a bloodless thing, a rotund and turreted medusa, the leader of a disorderly procession, soundless and feeble as becomes beings almost as impalpable as the sea itself.
As I was rounding the corner coming back I saw an agile, rotund figure, with a gleam of white shirt-front in the half darkness, mounting the dusky steps instead of descending into the lighted areaway.
There was a rotund being of much reading who perpetually smoked a very old pipe and who was editor of a tobacco journal.
It certainly would be no bad half-hour's recreation to watch a rotund Lord Mayor, followed by a court of aldermen to match, forcing their way through this pass after a turtle dinner.
The long table in the center of the library was strewn with large legal-looking documents, and beside it sat Mason North, his rotund body sagged in the chair, his good-natured face drawn and haggard.
The rotund little lawyer bounced from his chair and strode up and down before the bar, his hands clenched behind his back and his mustache bristling.
The rotundlittle man advanced with shining eyes, and seized the girl's hands.
The "inquiry" which had so gladdened the colonel's heart the morning ofthe breakfast with aunt Nancy had proceeded from this rotund negotiator.
There, near the back door, stood the rotund black woman, and, behind her, Plez.
When she had reached the house, and had informed Letty where she was going, the rotund maid expressed high approbation of the visit, and offered to send Plez to show Miss Null the way.
Besides these, there were two men conversing with each other, one small, rotund and scary-faced, the other tall and thin.
An enfant no more, in the robustly rotund forties, his cheerful self-indulgence demanded still of his environment that smiling acquiescence that kept life soft and comfortable.
Going home, he bathed and changed into his customary garb of smooth black, to which his rotund placidity of bearing imparted an indescribably silky finish.
He was middle-aged, very bald, rotund in figure, and so short that his head was hardly level with her shoulder.
She was drawn up to her full height, dwarfing the rotund commissioner of customs.
I could see, now, why the rotundbodies sagged and flattened at the base, and why six short, stubby legs were needed to support that body.
Where there had been formless shadows, rotund creatures such as we had met in the cavern stood and lashed their tentacles about in a sort of frenzied gladness, and fell back to make room for their brothers.
A pannel of the chamber wall slid back, and the sleek rotund visage of the man who had exchanged signs with him as he entered the house, appeared at the aperture.
In fruit Edgemont is not easily distinguished from Late Crawford, the essential differences being that the fruits of Edgemont are more rotund than those of Late Crawford and the flavor is a little more acid.
At their best, the fruits are larger, morerotund and more richly colored than shown in The Peaches of New York.
Peaches in China, evidently, show the same modification, for those discussed in the previous group are as markedly rotund as those in this group are conic and beaked.
Fru Bjork listened, her fat hands clasped on her rotund person, her cap awry over her kindly face, her eyes wide and round with dismay.
Before Fairholme could hail the man, a rotund form, encased in many yards of blue serge, surmounted by a jolly-looking face on top of which was perched an absurdly small yachting cap, emerged from the companion.
Guy Spencer puffed leisurely at his cigar, and regarded his rotund little friend with an amused smile.
He found the little rotund man sitting in an easy-chair, white-faced, the marks of agitation written all over his countenance.
The speaker was little Tommy Esmond, short, genial, and rotund of person.
But when he approached Esmond, that little rotund gentleman waved him away, in most genial fashion.
He was a little, fair-haired person with a rotund figure.
Hester laughed, but inwardly commented that there was more than one officer of the spinning-top order as she glanced at herrotund companion.
His face wore a puzzled expression as he could not recall that rotund figure with the flabby face framed by cinnamon-hued curls, who rose to meet him with a broad smile and outstretched hands.
The moon showed his face to be alert and expectant, expressions which changed into a look of joy when the warble was repeated and he saw emerge from the plantation the rotund figure of his friend and critic.
Headlong the rotund John plunged downwards, expecting a command to stop, but no cry came.
