| 1. | O manhood, balanced, florid and full. - from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman |
| 2. | Imbracing round this florid Earth, what caus. - from Paradise Lost by John Milton |
| 3. | All that Italian florid music is. - from Ulysses by James Joyce |
| 4. | "Why, the man in the brown coat--our florid friend with the square toes. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 5. | The fat man loves comfort above all else, but the florid man loves distinction. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 6. | The florid man's mind has the same quickness and resourcefulness that distinguish all his bodily processes. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |
| 7. | In all probability the murderer had a florid face, and the finger-nails of his right hand were remarkably long. - from A Study In Scarlet by Arthur Conan Doyle |
| 8. | The screen was an old one, of gilt Spanish leather, stamped and wrought with a rather florid Louis-Quatorze pattern. - from The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde |
| 9. | Foreign dishes of all kinds depend for their introduction into this country almost entirely upon these florid patrons. - from How to Analyze People on Sight by Elsie Lincoln Benedict and Ralph Paine Benedict |