The other was the stolid, but rubicund, countenance of his subaltern, Stubbs.
"The White Gauntlet"
Mayne Reid
Had any one at home dared to take such liberties with the boy's rubicund locks there would have been a fight right away, but Lathrop felt that the best policy to assume in the present situation was silence, and as the old ship captain said to his mate, "dem little of that."
"The Boy Aviators in Africa"
Captain Wilbur Lawton
Mrs. Healy, the sole proprietor of the "Burton Arms," was of some five and fifty-"or by'r lady," three score years, of a rubicund and hale complexion; and though her short neck and corpulent figure might have set her down as "doubly hazardous," she looked a good life for many years to come.
"The Confessions of Harry Lorrequer, Complete"
Charles James Lever (1806-1872)