floridness

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In oratory, notwithstanding a tendency to more than Milesian floridness and hyperbole, they have taken no mean stand among the free nations of christendom.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Volume 1, No. 3, August, 1850. by Various

It was in accordance with his floridness that he always retained the gold band about his cigar while he smoked it.

From Running Water by Mason, A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley)

In the hot summer light his floridness seemed heavy and bloated, and but for his erect square-shouldered walk he would have looked like an over-fed and over-dressed old man.

From The Age of Innocence by Wharton, Edith

He was short and thick-set, young, quite fair, inclined already to floridness of skin.

From Poor Man's Rock by Johnson, Frank Tenney

Yet, after a time, this dullness frequently gives way to a fiery redness; not the floridness of health, but the redness of inflammation and false excitement, which indicates a corresponding depreciation of the mental faculties.

From The Illustrated Self-Instructor in Phrenology and Physiology by Fowler, L. N.