portliness

Not sure if it was a reference to his increasing portliness.

To the common folk, however, the lure of portliness beckoned.

As a result of his light exercise and rich diet, Noble was developing a noticeable portliness.

The only impression I had of him was of curly white hair, pink skin, and portliness.

But do not mistake size for portliness, as this bonded-aluminium Jaguar carries no fat at all.

Using his portliness and his Southern drawl to comic effect, he usually played a naive country boy.

The increasing portliness of pets, then, may be in large part a result of longer life spans for dogs and cats.

If his outline had thickened a little his height, which was well above six feet, made a slight portliness negligible.

The years had given Fulrach a tendency toward portliness, and his brown beard was now streaked with silver.

Master Frodo let it be known that among norbears a certain portliness of figure was considered attractive.

The formula looked to be about three times wing length to the length of arm, corrected perhaps to account for the portliness.

Well built, of middle height, he showed no signs of the portliness that so frequently comes to a man of leisure.

They are round-faced, stocky, inclined to portliness.

Nature averts such portliness with the equivalent of a built-in thermostat that keeps that body at a more or less fixed weight.

Though he himself had been a prime performer in his youth, he was inclining toward portliness more and more as middle age overtook him.

He flung it open in a sweeping movement and jumped out into the living room with amazing agility for a man of his age and portliness.

The firstborn of the Dynasty had a pleasant homely face with a receding hairline, and he tended slightly to portliness.

She says she spends a lot of money on clothes to mask her portliness, and agonizes in front of the mirror as she tries them on.

His hair is lacquered down to his skull, his appearance of portliness minimized by Savile Row legerdemain.

His pale ivory face smiled under his thin Chinese mustache, and his ample body had the fluid motion of a man without fat despite his portliness.

Shortly before three o'clock the host swept grandly down the stairs in Oriental caftan and heavy gold chains, his portliness only adding to his dignity.

The governor, a middle-aged, red-headed man a trifle inclined to portliness, had been seated in a huge reclining chair facing a teevee screen, but got up to shake hands.

'Ye gods, at this time of the day, my friend?' he said, his portly form draped by a dark grey suit comfortable enough to give his portliness room to live and breathe.

If any one performance sets the pace, it's that of Mr. Shaw who, padded out to achieve Lord Goring's silhouette of indolent portliness, is a wonder of wit and common sense.