floridness
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He was short and thick-set, young, quite fair, inclined already to floridness of skin.
From Poor Man's Rock by Frank Tenney Johnson
Vasilisa Vasena came every morning at seven o'clock; she was a country-woman of about thirty seven, strong, healthy, red-faced, reminiscent of a July day in her floridness and vigorous health.
From Tales of the Wilderness by Boris Pilniak
His rhetoric has been criticized for floridness and sensationalism, but his word pictures held multitudes of people spellbound as in the presence of a master.
From The world's great sermons, Volume 08 Talmage to Knox Little by Grenville Kleiser
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 well that Mrs. Dangerfield kept Captain Baster waiting; it gave the purple tinge, which was heightening his floridness somewhat painfully, time to fade.
From The Terrible Twins by Edgar Jepson
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