The Pillars of the Earth vocabulary

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