Word: buxomly
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...himself up from a weazened shrimp to a powerful athlete. He was as militant as any Irishman with an undigested dose of religion. His faith was physique; he was out to make the world safe for healthy bodies. This zeal has never wholly died. The numerous Macfadden daughters are buxom as can be and have never been ashamed to pose as their father's prize exhibits. Nevertheless, it was inevitable that this apostle of the corporeal should find how well the U. S. form repays its exploiters. Bernarr Macfadden got into publishing and fell among shrewd businessmen...
...sensitive" youth?the adjective is repeated ad nauseam?a sensitive youth who was as weak as a girl because all his strength went into making him a great tall bag of bones whom any knotty runt could upset into a helpless heap. For heroine he represents a buxom milk wench?the scene is rural Suffolk "these many years ago"?who has a taste which she herself considers monstrous for the hero-monstrosity. She has no love for him but likes to torture "with the least possible effort to herself" this sensitive bag ? of bones. The spectacle...
...sergeant took her for his doll. From her knobby washboard she vaulted, with the ad- miration of an army corps, beyond the antechamber of Peter the Great. He was a humorist-perhaps the greatest. With a fillip never equaled by another monarch he set his laundress, bouncing and buxom, on the world's tallest throne...
...years, since, indeed the time when Garibaldi lived in Brooklyn and the daisy chain had buxom links, Freddie has served the public, privately, of Boston. Last night he again moved effectively, convincingly over modern streets, an anachronism, with a bad leg. So when those who out of generosity and victory donate to the Army of Salvation, it must be hoped that this grand old man and grand old horse will stir an occasional tear. One need not wait until Freddie fails, to weep o'er his prostrate white form in the Sterne mannerly...
...upon a brightly varnished but angular third class bench, few would have supposed her the sole heir to one of Europe's largest and most thriftily hoarded fortunes. Throughout the week, as she did camp girl duty (cooked, scrubbed, mended) few chance visitors guessed that this bright-eyed buxom girl was Crown Princess Juliana of the Netherlands, heir to the throne...