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1. Prince Ahmed, wearing furry slippers, a pair of boxer shorts with Snoopy on them, and a frilly bathrobe, sits miserably on the silk sheets of his huge canopy waterbed, while his portly, graying American lover, RICCI BAOLONI, cardigan sweater and cotton briefs, plays softly at the white baby grand piano nearby
2. Peter Dooley was a portly man
3. Overnight he turned into a fine looking gentleman and bought drinks for city whiz kids, rich bankers and portly brokers in the hotel bar
4. rich bankers and portly brokers in the hotel bar
5. since last here,’ there was a bitter edge to the portly man’s tone
6. At first glance he seemed so unassuming; a portly little man with a balding head
7. ‘I'd like you two to hold it there a minute if you please,’ said the somewhat portly policeman, whose name was Phil
8. His portly shape was unmistakable
9. portly with age, and his pack every year becomes bigger, owing to the
10. The chef was a kind if slightly portly man and said: “No problem mate, it is prepared with love, help yourself then
11. They ranged in age from young to old and in build from emaciated to portly
12. Ted brushed off the reference to his rather portly exterior and
13. Vic grabbed a portly office clerk by the tie and tightened it so much his neck fat wobbled over his collar
14. used to be called portly
15. Within seconds Bryony’s legs were freed, but she needed Zach’s help to manoeuvre her portly pig body into a standing position
16. He was a portly man of less than average height who worked for an insurance company
17. His portly frame was encased in what appeared to be a jumper, the picture or pattern knitted into the front so faded that it was possible to stare at it for a lifetime and not decipher its origins
18. He was a short portly man and to see someone of that stature being thrown about as Bridget commented was worrying
19. A portly middle-aged woman answered the door
20. As they had finished viewing the place, a key opened the front door and in walked the large portly figure of the other tenant who introduced himself as Ted Brown
21. Aram Baksh came forward, walking softly, a portly man, with a black beard that swept his breast, a jutting hook-nose, and small black eyes which were never still
22. Within minutes of my attack, the portly Wizard of Healing was standing before me
23. Now, in his middle years, he had let himself go, was more portly, and thus, even more massive than all his younger officers
24. A portly prince, the elder and most seniors of the expedition, is inside this vehicle and is wearing his flowing white national dress
25. The captain of the freighter was a portly old man who, with his wife, had piloted freighters for half a century
26. They pushed him over the edge and the cord took the weight of the capsule and the portly naturalist
27. however he eventually recognised the portly figure of Owen
28. The portly old doc entered the room holding his wooden ruler out
29. Surprisingly the portly fellow got straight to the point of what he had to
30. swung open and a short portly old man with salt and pepper
31. The portly, retired looking cop looked like he was in a
32. (The portly judge had tried on a
33. the parking garage and was greeted by a portly fellow with
34. The portly fellow not wanting to
35. He turned around and watched a portly
36. When he answered the door he was accosted by a portly
37. Nikita, a bald, portly man of 58, smiled reassuringly to his wife
38. But our old lady was portly
39. He dropped the portly dwarf at their
40. a niece of yours?” Samantha smiled brightly at the portly old woman
41. The portly Gadkari is an interesting combination of bon vivant and swayamsevak
42. One of the portly men sporting a three-piece charcoal
43. The portly silhouette hesitated a moment more, and then
44. Chuck leaned his portly torso in over the table
45. The portly woman eased back into her recliner and absorbed every last syllable that the new arrival uttered
46. He even went to far as to raise his hand as if smoking a pipe but was quickly reminded where he was, by a rather grumpy sort of coughing noise, followed by a sneer, from a rather portly gentleman whom had been standing next to him, who just happened to be holding a pipe
47. A portly shaped man with sunburned brown skin and a bushy mustache opened the door
48. “Aye, what have we here?” A portly, bearded man smelling of beer wiped his mouth with the back of his sleeve
49. exhibition, and in walked a portly business man, no trace was left of the dashing
50. There was Emmanuel Licos, a rich, portly Greek from Khartoum who moved about South Kensington in a late model Mercedes