Hamlet vocabulary

Together we studied that moth. [...] Its big, pursy body was covered with long, furry scales of the purest white imaginable.

Gene Stratton-Porter. Moths of the Limberlost

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It was a scene characteristic of the end of the nineteenth century—an overfed, commonplace, pursy little man who had been born in a Brixton semi-detached villa,

Arnold Bennett. The Grand Babylon Hôtel (1902)

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I was still looking at the doorway, thinking that Miss Mowcher was a long while making her appearance, when, to my infinite astonishment, there came waddling round a sofa which stood between me and it, a pursy dwarf, of about forty or forty-five, with a very large head and face, a pair of roguish grey eyes, and such extremely little arms, that, to enable herself to lay a finger archly against her snub nose,

Charles Dickens. David Copperfield (1850)

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