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Significados de portly en inglés

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Euphemisms for `fat'

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Examples for "stout"
Examples for "stout"
1
Feel free to replace the water with stout in the recipe below.
Independent.ie
2
Some people like to cook it in stout, or others use water.
Independent.ie
3
He didn't do a good stride; he was too stout for that.
Dead as a doornail
4
American stout is the American take on the foreign extra stout style.
Wired
5
The sail swung around until caught in position by the stout line.
The Mucker
Uso de portly en inglés
1
The portly charlady who rules despotically in my chambers is an example.
The Ways of Men
2
Behind it were sitting eleven respectable and portly gentlemen in black coats.
Essays in Rebellion
3
A portly fellow creeps towards it, then waits outside in agonised hesitation.
The Irish Times
4
The portly gatekeeper smiled pleasantly as he stood looking after his master.
Greifenstein
5
Fainter, however, grew the footsteps, and at length the portly figure disappeared.
Wilton School; or, Harry Campbell's Revenge
6
A portly man detached himself from the group and came toward me.
32 Caliber
7
Her former principal had been fiftyish, balding, portly and reeked of aftershave.
Damaged
8
He was a portly young man, pinched in by tight light-coloured garments.
John Halifax, Gentleman
9
If that is true, the portly Londoner must be exhilarated beyond words.
Penelope's Irish Experiences
10
The portly old prelate nodded cordially to Dr. Peutinger as he spoke.
In the Blue Pike — Volume 01
11
He and Coltrane were nearly the same size-rathertall, portly, and erect.
Whirligigs
12
A portly burgher was he, friendly of tongue and free of purse.
The Armourer's Prentices
13
There was a ponderous respectability about his portly build that defied detection.
What's Bred in the Bone
14
The race attracts the young and old, the athletic and the portly.
Reuters
15
He's a portly Bill Cullen crossed with a more wisecracking Monty Hall.
Reuters
16
He was a dignified gentleman, with delicately chiselled features and portly figure.
The Irrational Knot / Being the Second Novel of His Nonage
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