1 He was a portly figure in a tight-fitting jacket and bow tie.

2 He was a portly man, red-faced and always panting.

3 Those 29 words sealed the portly politician's fate.

4 He is not a large man, but portly now and rather short of breath.

5 But a steep turn, below, reveals a portly frame and dated antecedents.

6 He was amiable, grizzle-haired and portly, with a wide smile.

7 The bishop was a dignified, portly man, with thinning white hair.

8 Dewey himself campaigned with the portly dignity of an incumbent,[] while Truman screeched and kicked like an outsider.

9 Three: portly old men should use belt and braces, in case their trousers burst open; the belt hides the disaster.

10 In the opposite corner was a portly man in a baggy tweed suit.

11 The lawyer was a tall, portly man with a snub nose, a square chin, and a short neck.

12 George Shultz, the bluff and portly secretary of state, evidently thought much the same.

13 The general is a portly old man.

14 A portly German kept this place.

15 Men are portly and women are stout.

16 " I won't,' said the portly woman.

17 The new manager is a portly aged woman.

18 A portly, rubicund man of middle age"."

19 He would make a feast of the portly grunter.

20 Instantly the portly lady's face became exceedingly sober and shrewd.

21 The new manager is a portly middle - aged woman.

22 Fact is, the portly plumber perfected platforming way back in 1996 with Super Mario 64.

23 The portly client puffed out his chest with an appearance of some little pride.

24 And the portly pooches also risk similar illnesses, including heart disease.

25 As they leaned against a red brick wall, a portly prison system official swabbed at the sweat trickling into his collar.

26 But then she also spends some time persuading the audience to laugh at her own idiosyncrasies and rather portly shape.

27 They saw me with my thin marathoner's body and wondered what it was that I admired in this portly paramour with the plus-size panties.

28 She had come up the imposing steps, guarded by the large and portly doorman.

29 For one hour a week the class had elocution lessons from an old, portly teacher called Mr Priestley.

30 By late 1975, Papa Doc Duvalier had passed from the scene, succeeded by his son, a portly young man whom everybody called Baby Doc.

31 It reads like an old Geographic, rich in the delightful minutiae of bungalows and centipedes, tinned goods, portly lamas, silence and wonder.

32 The forest service, which looks after areas where tigers roam, is a portly shadow of its 1970s self, when Indira Gandhi launched her celebrated feline rescue plan, Project Tiger.

33 The other night as I walker from the garage , a portly man wearing a stocking cap emerged from a bush and aimed a pistolbetween my eyes.

34 For a portly man like him, Uncle Tom still has quick reflex.

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35 And with a cry of delight he ran towards the slumbering Portly.

36 Habitually clad in a boiler suit tailored to highlight his portly frame, Kim Jong Il seems an unlikely style icon.

37 His eyes were blue, his complexion rubicund , his figure almost portly and well-built, his body muscular, and his physical powers fully developed by the exercises of his younger days.

38 He wore a belted raincoat that accentuated his portly middle.

39 How did he look, Sir? Was he portly, bold, outspoken, and hearty?

40 After them came a portly lady of about forty - five, light - haired, sharp - eyed, and evidently good - natured.

41 Portly and stout are sometimes used as polite terms to describe fatness.

42 Mr. Seegrave was tall and portly , and military in his manners.

43 Arctic people are generally short, round, portly and, therefore, warm.

44 The portly bank manager, Su Dapeng, offers to take us hunting for wildfowl and to pose for a portrait.