portly

How To Use portly In A Sentence

• The shore was deserted save for myself and a portly dogana-official who was playing with his little son -- trying to amuse him by elephantine gambols on the sand, regardless of his uniform and manly dignity. Old Calabria
• The portly old housekeeper used to play cicerone, but the portly old housekeeper, growing portlier and older every day, got in time quite unable to waddle up and down and pant out gasping explanations to the strangers. The Baronet's Bride
• His frame was portly and he shuffled when he walked, his feet turned slightly inwards. KANDAHAR COCKNEY: A Tale of Two Worlds
• Near to me on the train is a portly gent in late middle-age.
• Eventually he started to talk with the bartender, a portly fellow with a large salt-and-pepper mustache and squinty eyes.
• She enlists her portly dog, Bruno, a stolen pedal boat and a trio of aged divas - the former showbiz-queen ‘triplets’ of the title.
• And what was so civilization-threatening about the portly pepperpot anyway? How to Serve Dish
• He is a man in his fifties, as you know, portly and he gets seasick. LET NOT THE DEEP
• Opposite, a portly gentleman with a magnificent beard adjusted his sword and bowed his head minutely in welcome.
• The portly princess had cooked her goose. CHRISTINA QUEEN OF SWEDEN: The Restless Life of a European Eccentric