Wordie: Plethoric: Comments

Comment by yarb, 2 months ago

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:47:28 +0000

Like a plethoric burning martyr, or a self-consuming misanthrope, once ignited, the whale supplies his own fuel and burns by his own body.

- Melville, Moby-Dick, ch. 95

Comment by yarb, 4 months ago

Thu, 05 Jun 2008 04:10:02 +0000

Van remembered that Mr. Alexander Screepatch, the new president of the United Americas, a plethoric Russian, had flown over to see King victor; and he correctly concluded that both were now sunk in mollitude.

- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor

Comment by chained_bear, 7 months ago

Tue, 04 Mar 2008 02:39:13 +0000

"...he did not like either the look or the feel of his patient's belly, and since Fox was somewhat plethoric he decided to bleed and purge him."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Thirteen Gun Salute, 165

Comment by jaime_d, about 1 year ago

Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:18:16 +0000

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