plumply

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So saying, she lay down on her back and taking his hand, set it to her parts, and he found these same parts softer than silk; white, plumply-rounded, protuberant, resembling for heat the hot room of the bath or the heart of a lover whom love-longing hath wasted.

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  • He denied, plumply, that there was want of politeness or respect in the letter; and, after many awkward detours and half-finished sentences, he said he would return the letter, and would consider it as cancelling the determination which it contained, and proposed to call on her in the country to-morrow morning to renew his suit. —  Memoirs of Aaron Burr, Volume 2.
  • We plan to plump up the cushions extra plumply and keep a steady flow of tea, scones and cream and of course a virtual birthday cake plus an added bonus, Rocky has agreed to be on virtual hand and purr contentedly at her feet. —  dovegreyreader scribbles
  • In his room, he kept a picture of her as a young woman, plumply beautiful with lustrous eyes, full lips, and dark ringlets accented by a lace cap that hung veil-like to her shoulders. —  AmericanHeritage.com
  • If you saw a plumply drawn chick with warts, you would think shes secretly evil or going to transform in the later .. —  Progressive U - The new media voice for students
  • "I think I will wait for a moment or two; but I have no time to spare, and must go soon, in any case The rain had turned the street into a river, upon the surface of which the plumply-falling drops were producing multitudes of those peculiar gleaming white splashes which are known to childhood as "sixpences and half-crowns." —  The Golden Shoemaker or 'Cobbler' Horn
 

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