He poked his rubicund face out from the shadow of the chaise's canopy and peered to right and to left.
Already she had something of her father's rubicund countenance; her cheeks were red, even a trifle blotchy.
He often smiled to himself as he pictured the expression which would come on his uncle's rubicund countenance if he guessed what an intimate knowledge his office boy had of his affairs.
Footnote 9: Hence, if the colour relations are maintained, it is correct to represent a blue-eyed rubicund man by red eyes and a violet face.
We laugh, and again we laugh when, in silly terror and credulity, he allows the Merry Wives to pack him in the foul linen basket; where Falstaff is, there is also rubicund pleasantry.
And the rubicund cleric shook his friend's hand heartily and went down the broad staircase.
Hovering near the door was the genial old proprietor, with white hair and rubicund face, a smile for every one, and capable of passing anywhere for a chairman of directors at least.
Beautiful as Hebe, by Jove," exclaimed the rubicund major, in an undertone that implied he was also deeply interested in the fair young face and graceful supple form.
Silence reigned in the lawyer's office for three minutes, when the door was reopened and Mose Spriggins' rubicund face once more adorned the apartment.
He was of a full rubicund countenance, with a double chin, aquiline nose, and a pleasant twinkling eye.
If I live a thousand years, I can never forget the more than mortal agony which was depicted in that ghastly face of his, so lately rubicund with triumph and wine.
I told him very shortly, and never in my life have I seen so piteous a spectacle as that little round rubicund man at the hearing of my story.
Prominent among them was old Garrett, his rubicund visage now nearly purple.
It was indeed Jacques Dumoulin, who advanced with his hat stuck on one side, with rubicund nose and sparkling eye, dressed in a loose coat, which displayed the rotundity of his abdomen.
Beneath this casque, shone forth the mostrubicund and jovial face, that ever was purpled by the fumes of generous wine.
I found him sitting up in a comfortable bed with a rubicund face which did not look as if he were dangerously ill.
The Swiss, who had been pale and gloomy enough a short while before; was rubicund and affable.
As he spoke, he entered panting, and with the rubicund glow beginning to return upon a face from which the message had evidently banished it.
Water on the brain; I don't care what any one says," asserted the rubicund man.
The woman gathered her priceless possession carefully into her arms, and the rubicund man adroitly opened the door for her.
I paused; my imagination was reconstructing the scene of the railway carriage, and I felt a reflex of the hesitation shown by the rubicund man when he had asked the same question.
But the rubicund man was magnificent, though, like the lion tamer of my youthful experience, he was doubtless conscious of the aspect his temerity wore in the eyes of beholders.
I thought of that urchin's scared, shrieking face now, as the rubicund man leant quickly back into his corner.
A very remarkable child, ma'am," said the rubicund man who sat facing the woman.
It was the rubicund man who, most daring during the crisis, was now bold enough to admit curiosity.
Mad, of course, that's to say imbecile," repeated the rubicund man.
Good day," echoed the rubicund man with relief, and we all drew a deep breath of relief with him in concert, as though we had just witnessed the safe descent of some over-daring aviator.
The child turned its head and looked the rubicund man full in the eyes.
A look of amused toleration spread over therubicund face.
The old, hale, hearty, rubicund look was replaced by the pale, pained expression of suffering.
His face was a sturdy English one, smooth, round, rubicund and pleasant, and yet with a dignity peculiarly its own.
But there I was at last, in the middle of the afternoon, and there, on the platform to meet me was the detective, as rubicund and cheerful as ever, and full of gratitude for my speedy response to his request.
