portly

• Uncle Tom was tall and portly, and a wag out of office hours, with a moustache that, in spite of all his efforts, would not turn up, but insisted on making a melancholy inner semicircle just a size smaller than the rubicund circle of his face. —  The Lowest Rung Together with The Hand on the Latch, St. Luke's Summer and The Understudy
• She was portly, and her thin skin gave confirmation to her own frequent complaint of feeling the heat; but though the day had been more sultry than it was, she would not have foregone the pleasure of endowing the Circle with its new accession toward the meeting-house fund The Circle had been founded in war time when women scraped lint and sewed with a passionate zeal. —  Country Neighbors
• Their luncheon consisted of a ham and veal pie, and a good drink for each of ginger beer At length, several other people having come in, a portly-looking man, dressed in a very gay uniform, and wearing on his head a black velvet hat adorned with a sort of wreath made of blue and white ribbons, took them in charge to lead them about the Tower This man belonged to a body that is called the Yeomen of the Guard. —  Rollo in London
• He was tall and somewhat portly, and he had a bluff and offhand manner, which, however, served not so much to intimate his good-will toward you as his abounding good-humor with himself. —  The Moonshiners At Hoho-Hebee Falls 1895
• A somewhat portly, rather well-dressed, middle-aged individual entered. —  The Music Master Novelized from the Play

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