floridness

Example Sentences

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The inside of the church is in singular contrast to the floridness of the outside.

From Portuguese Architecture by Watson, Walter Crum

The nave, the choir and chevet, and chapels, are all of a bareness which only exaggerates the floridness of these other appendages.

From The Cathedrals of Northern France by McManus, Blanche

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

The old, worn, faded, carefully polished furniture, for the most part of the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century, seemed abashed in the presence of his floridness.

From The Terrible Twins by Jepson, Edgar

Davies and Risk, when called to supper, smelled strongly of rose-scented cold-cream; and Lund was unsparing in sarcastic remarks on the extreme floridness of complexion of the entire party.

From Adrift in the Ice-Fields by Hall, Charles W.