Corpulence

Lo, if she walk in the West, so cumbrous her corpulence is The ❋ Anonymous (1879)

The entry claimed that in the past alchemists had said dew was capable of dissolving gold and had some virtue in correcting any disposition to corpulence. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Low-slung pants too tight above exposed midsections create an impression of corpulence for all but the anorexic woman. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Haynesworth will "have plenty of chances to drop the quarterback," and also have "plenty of chances to stop being the NFL's running joke for corpulence and bad attitude." ❋ Danny Groner (2011)

Of great concern is that this corpulence has definitively been linked to the youthful onset of diabetes and hypertension, and to strokes and heart attacks in middle age. ❋ Edward Flattau (2011)

The ever-expanding corporate CEO corpulence, like any unrestrained overgrowth, is lethal, and corporations and their CEOs, who rake in the dough, even after running the companies they head into the ground, are well on their way to killing their host. ❋ Iris Erlingsdottir (2011)

For male execs, corpulence correlates with high pay -- up to the point of obesity, when their salaries start getting docked. ❋ Dorie Clark (2010)

Older than I thought, he has the kind of corpulence that attracts children, robust and genial, a wonderfully raspy voice, the veritable Italian warmth. ❋ Kristin McCloy (2010)

Unlike the other Riario boys, who had some charm and culture, although each was ostentatious and boastful, Girolamo was brash and uncouth, also given to corpulence in a way that showed a tremendous resemblance to his “uncle” the pope. ❋ KATHLEEN MCGOWAN (2010)

It is an art of the body, of corpulence and skinniness, flatulence and dropsy, of comic priggishness and irrepressible lust. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Reflection is a harebrained handmaid of the day-to-day corpulence ❋ Unknown (2010)

From out of her corpulence, rose an effulgent girl in purple, spinning and spinning with brown hair. ❋ Nina Alvarez (2010)

He regarded ‘the chief cause of corpulence as a diet with starchy and farinaceous elements’ which he said ‘was no less fattening when conveyed in drinks, such as beer’. ❋ Unknown (2010)

George IV was an enthusiastic collector of Gillray and Rowlandson? even though they often depicted him in all his corpulence. ❋ Unknown (2010)