He was a rather short, florid man, dressed like a typical Hebraic financier, with too much watch-chain and too little waistcoat.
Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)
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He was a tall, well-built man of fifty with a florid complexion
Tom Clancy. The Hunt for Red October, p.119 (1984)
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The outside pattern is a florid arabesque, reminding one of a fungus.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman. The Yellow Wallpaper (1892)
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at the same time that they highly provok'd an itch of florid warm-spirited blood through every vein: but above all, my bed-fellow Phoebe, whose pupil I more immediately was, exerted her talents in giving me the first tinctures of pleasure
John Cleland. Fanny Hill, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure
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Florid and beetle-browed, its driver stared at me:
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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When he was strongly moved, as sometimes by the vagaries of the office boy, Percy, Willoughby's rather florid complexion always took on a deeper hue.