How To Use pursy In A Sentence
- The only practical purpose which it now subserves in American politics is to give enough exercise to Radicalism to keep it “in wind,” and to prevent its becoming pursy and lazy, from having nothing to whip. The Failed Project of Conservatism « Isegoria
- Nicolette, who had succeeded to Magnon, and that short-breathed and pursy Les Miserables
- Now I will give you a picture of this wretch: She is a broad, squat, pursy, fat thing, quite ugly, if any thing human can be so called; about forty years old. Pamela
- I would fain merit your esteem, heedless of those pursy fellows from hulks and warehouses, with one ear lappeted by the pen behind it, and the other an heirloom, as Charles would have had it, in Laud's Imaginary Conversations and Poems A Selection
- Molyneux, Bishop of Bullocksmithy, doffed crosier and mitre for that day, and though fat and pursy, panted up the breach with the most resolute spirit, roaring out war-cries and curses, and wielding a prodigious mace of iron, with which he did good execution. Burlesques
- At the foot of the hill he passed by the green and white Rectory, and there was the parson, a short fat, pursy man with wrists protruding from his jacket sleeves as he stood on tip-toe tying up a rambling rose-shoot on his trim cedared lawn. The Return
- He not shall know to march, he is pursy, he is foundered. Of phrasebooks, battleship lieutenants and lightning-struck postillions
- His eyes seemed to plead with Privy Seal, who paced the gallery in short, pursy strides, his plump hands hidden in the furs behind his back. Privy Seal His Last Venture
- Belloniere promised me a lanner, but he wrote to me not long ago that he was become pursy. Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
- I stopt for her, till her pursy sides were waddled up to me; and she held by my arm, half out of breath: So I was forced to pass by the dear place, without daring to look at it. Pamela
