Mr. Colson was adjectival.
"Amusement Only"
Richard Marsh
The authoress has an eye for what is worth seeing, a happy knack of graphic description, and a literary style which is commendably free from adjectival exuberance."
"A Girl's Ride in Iceland"
Ethel Brilliana Alec-Tweedie
The Lord Bishop of the Back-Blocks had at that time been a twelvemonth or more in charge of what he himself described playfully as his "oceanic see"; but his long neglect of Mulfera was due less to its remoteness than to the notorious fact that they wanted no adjectival and alliterative bishops there.
"Stingaree"
E. W. (Ernest William) Hornung