The other was blond, floridly blond, and unmistakably Teutonic.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
Even the men whom he could so easily inflame now would, in the end, turn on him, and his career would be as brief as it was floridly picturesque.
"The Tempering"
Charles Neville Buck
As Moore says rather too floridly, but with truth,-"In vain did Burke's genius put forth its superb plumage, glittering all over with the hundred eyes of fancy-the gait of the bird was heavy and awkward, and its voice seemed rather to scare than attract."
"Burke"
John Morley