corpulence

• “Lo, if she walk in the West, so cumbrous her corpulence is The”

  The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Edward Flattau: Food Foolery

• “Low-slung pants too tight above exposed midsections create an impression of corpulence for all but the anorexic woman.”

  November « 2009 « L.E. Modesitt, Jr. – The Official Website

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Danny Groner: Patriots Gamble on Ochocinco and Haynesworth

• “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.”

  The Huffington Post: Iris Erlingsdottir: Wells Fargo 125% Fee Hike

• “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.”

  The Guardian: Weatherwatch: The magical properties of dew

• “It is an art of the body, of corpulence and skinniness, flatulence and dropsy, of comic priggishness and irrepressible lust.”

  The Guardian: Rude Britannia: British Comic Art

• “Reflection is a harebrained handmaid of the day-to-day corpulence”

  Fictionaut: To No Avail

• “From out of her corpulence, rose an effulgent girl in purple, spinning and spinning with brown hair.”

  Fictionaut: Magic X

• “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’.”

  The Triumph of Gluttony

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