You take her on the understanding--let us say--that she has lovely yellow hair, that she has an exquisite complexion, that her figure is the perfection of
plumpness, and that she is just tall enough to carry the
plumpness off.
His
plumpness and his red, fat cheeks made his mourning not a little incongruous.
At fifteen, appearances were mending; she began to curl her hair and long for balls; her complexion improved, her features were softened by
plumpness and colour, her eyes gained more animation, and her figure more consequence.
She had never used it herself, but she had read of the practice of eating arsenic among the Styrian peasantry for the purpose of clearing the color, and of producing a general appearance of
plumpness and good health.
The comely
plumpness of her face was matched by the comely
plumpness of her figure; it glided smoothly over the ground; it flowed in sedate undulations when she walked.
But happily, either Anne was improved in
plumpness and looks, or Lady Russell fancied her so; and Anne, in receiving her compliments on the occasion, had the amusement of connecting them with the silent admiration of her cousin, and of hoping that she was to be blessed with a second spring of youth and beauty.
Marian had been like a sack of meal, a dead weight of
plumpness under which he has literally staggered.
Whether from the influence of fashionable dissipation, or some other evil, a space of little more than twelve months had had the effect that might be expected from as many years, in reducing the
plumpness of her form, the freshness of her complexion, the vivacity of her movements, and the exuberance of her spirits.
A stout waist, the
plumpness of a wet-nurse, strong dimpled arms, red hands, were all in keeping with the swelling outlines and the fat whiteness of Norman beauty.
Alec, surveying the belt with great disfavour as he put the clasp forward several holes, to Rose's secret dismay, for she was proud of her slender figure, and daily rejoiced that she wasn't as stout as Luly Miller, a former schoolmate, who vainly tried to repress her
plumpness.
For five minutes Pollyanna worked swiftly, deftly, combing a refractory curl into fluffiness, perking up a drooping ruffle at the neck, or shaking a pillow into
plumpness so that the head might have a better pose.
There he sat, with his beaming eye on Mrs V., and his shining face suffused with gladness, and his capacious waistcoat smiling in every wrinkle, and his jovial humour peeping from under the table in the very
plumpness of his legs; a sight to turn the vinegar of misanthropy into purest milk of human kindness.