broadish

• “I am at present a middle-aged man of a broadish build, in cords, leggings, and a sleeved waistcoat the strings of which is always gone behind.”

  Doctor Marigold

• “Away below me I saw another broadish valley, and it occurred to me that if I crossed it”

  The Thirty-Nine Steps

• “We crawled along a broadish wall, with an inch or two of powdery snow on it, and then up a sloping buttress on to the flat roof of the house.”

  Greenmantle

• “The third still presented her back to him — a sturdy, broadish back, topped by”

  Succedaneum

• “In the distance a broadish, reddish river flowed east.”

  Simon & Schuster: The Berrybender Narratives

• “For example, the entrance — or should I say the exit? — of a broadish little river is just away on the south bank.”

  Travels in West Africa

• “The figure was visible — that of a short broadish man, with a mass of cloaks, rugs, and mufflers across his arm.”

  Wylder's Hand

• “This was a broadish path that seemed to have seen a lot of use recently, to judge by the broken branches on either side of it.”

  Simon & Schuster: Doctor’s Orders

• “Knox, as we are told by a surviving contemporary (who enclosed a portrait of him along with the description), was a man of slightly less than middle height, but with broadish shoulders, limbs well put together, and long fingers.”

  John Knox

• “Vertically out of the cocoa-nut rises a pipe which ends in a long bowl holding the _Tambac_, which is a second species of tobacco having broadish yellow leaves worked up with wet.”

  Memoir and Letters of Francis W. Newman

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