| On the mantelpiece is a small hard-backed book full of poems about motherly love, illustrated with florid pictures of angelic families. |
| And when its distributor keeled, owing the publisher 70,000 smackers, well, you could smell the florid eulogies already being written. |
| The florid old actor-manager at the heart of Forkbeard Fantasy's Shooting Shakespeare is effusive in his bardolatry. |
| His tone and legato playing are ravishing, and his execution of the composer's florid runs and other figurations is smooth. |
| It is an unhappy book, and consequently I could not afford to submit to the temptation of the florid and extraneous. |
| Unsteady figures cannoned into us, apologizing at once with a fine florid courtesy and sweeping exaggerated bows as we moved towards the Grill. |
