amply-rounded

Updated: June 13, 2025

Delia's eyes, of a lovely grey blue, lidded, and fringed, and arched with an exquisite perfection; the curve of the slightly bronzed cheek, suggesting through all its delicacy the fulness of young, sensuous life; the mouth, perhaps a trifle too large, and the chin, perhaps a trifle too firm; the abundance of the glossy black hair, curling wherever it was allowed to curl, or wherever it could escape the tight coils in which it was bound at the temples, and over the brow; the beauty of the uncovered neck, and of the amply-rounded form which revealed itself through the thin black stripe of the mourning dress: none of these "items" in Delia's good looks escaped her admiring visitor.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - Delia Blanchflower

I speak of him as old, and indeed we always called him Old Childe among ourselves; yet he was barely fifty. Nina, when I first made her acquaintance, must have been a girl of sixteen or seventeen; though tall, with an amply-rounded, mature-seeming figure if one had judged from her appearance, one would have fancied her three or four years older.

Henry Harland - Grey Roses