A masseur had rubbed the scowl of years and the hate of time out of his face, till its rotundity was equaled only by the full moon recovering from a case of the dumps.
He wore a white, brimless cap, and a big white apron covered up the rotundity of his front clear up to his chin and almost to his feet.
The rotundity of the earth had become to him an objective reality, and in sublime faith he pursued his westward way.
Magellan demonstrated the rotundity of the earth by sailing westward until he reached his starting point.
Indeed, this mighty man of valor could truthfully be described as fat of brain, fat of chops, fat of neck, and fattest of all in the rotundity of this strutting stomach.
Moyese dropped the map and the pencil and his heavy hand with a thud on the desk and laughed noiselessly down into the creases of his fat double chin and into the wrinkling rotundity of his white vest.
The Sheriff had gone round in front of the table, not too near it for obvious reasons; for the time of his revenge had come and his rotundityprotruded full blown and swelling.
Then the broad linen apron of blue and white check, girding her waist, and flowing over the smooth rotundity of person, was a living proof of the ripeness and wholesome state of her merchandise.
So it is the rotundity of my subject that bothers me.
On being hailed and asked what the matter was, he replied that it was the rotundity of the earth that bothered him; he kept sliding off.
Five hundred years later the Roman pontiffs were excommunicating and torturing those who taught the rotundity of the earth.
In his treatise on the Acts of the Apostles, there is an argument remarkable enough, considering that the rotundity of the earth was then unknown.
These worthies forgot, that even had the sight of Strabo been still more powerful, the intermediary obstacles caused by the rotundity of the globe must have circumvented his view.
As they grow older, they seem to drop or absorb the rotundity of the whole body, and finally assume the appearance of a chariot wheel.
The women, in consequence of the ample folds of their numerous cloth coats, are wondrously capacious in the middle and lower regions, and display as prominent a rotundity as the Hottentot Venus.
Our venerable divine was a true disciple of that school, of which his rotundity of figure, and rosy, shining visage, were "confirmations strong as proofs of holy writ.
What is this, then, but a proof of the rotundity of the earth?
He was arrayed in a long garment of costly black cloth, a sort of frock coat, and by the rotundity of his figure he seemed to be one of those accustomed to sit in the chief places at feasts.
And so it may occur that when it ought not to be visible in the absence of vapours, because the line AE encounters the rotundity of the Earth, it will be perceived in the line AF by refraction.
The effects of which refractions are very remarkable; for by them we often see objects which the rotundity of the Earth ought otherwise to hide; such as Islands, and the tops of mountains when one is at sea.
English men and women do not always grow stout and red-faced as they grow old; but after they have passed middle age more of them do tend to rubicundity and to protuberant rotundity of figure than people of the same age do in "America.
He taught the rotundity of the earth and that the earth was the same sort of a body as the other stars in the heavens, that it was not and could not be the centre of the universe and that it had a movement of its own.
The rotundityof a column or similar object is represented by means of parallel lines, which are comparatively open in the middle where light is required, but which are engraved closer and thicker towards the sides to express shade.
The lines showing the muscular rotundity and action of the limb are as admirably laid in as they are beautifully engraved.
What the excellent bishop describes as 'an immeasurable rotundity of person' seems to have been far from uncommon in the Universities in these high days.
The notions of the Yoruba negroes regarding female perfection consist, according to Lander, in "the bulk, plumpness, and rotundity of the object.
However, this manner of measuring beauty with a yard-stick; indicates some progress over the savage and Oriental custom of making rotundity the criterion of beauty.
Down rolled the table, crockery and all; down rolled the governor, with his bald pate and rotundity of body; down went the merry little thin man; over rolled the fellow with the nose like a kidney potato.
If unexpectedly he exhibited signs of consciousness, Bolt would immediately divert the subject by passing some facetious criticisms on the rotundity of the primadonna.
Presently she emerged, but with no obvious rotundity like that of a melon projecting from her basket, so that Miss Mapp could see exactly what she had purchased, and went back to the fish shop again.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "rotundity" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: belly; circularity; concavity; convexity; convolution; roundness; vaulting
