1
The portly charlady who rules despotically in my chambers is an example.
2
Behind it were sitting eleven respectable and portly gentlemen in black coats.
3
A portly fellow creeps towards it, then waits outside in agonised hesitation.
4
The portly gatekeeper smiled pleasantly as he stood looking after his master.
5
Fainter, however, grew the footsteps, and at length the portly figure disappeared.
6
A portly man detached himself from the group and came toward me.
7
Her former principal had been fiftyish, balding, portly and reeked of aftershave.
8
He was a portly young man, pinched in by tight light-coloured garments.
9
If that is true, the portly Londoner must be exhilarated beyond words.
10
The portly old prelate nodded cordially to Dr. Peutinger as he spoke.
11
He and Coltrane were nearly the same size-rathertall, portly, and erect.
12
A portly burgher was he, friendly of tongue and free of purse.
13
There was a ponderous respectability about his portly build that defied detection.
14
The race attracts the young and old, the athletic and the portly.
15
He's a portly Bill Cullen crossed with a more wisecracking Monty Hall.
16
He was a dignified gentleman, with delicately chiselled features and portly figure.
