During the Tang Dynasty, people regarded plumpness as beautiful because emperors liked plump beauties. |
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He complimented the women on their beauty, and the babies on their numbers and their plumpness. |
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Fat teenagers rejoice, you can now blame your parents and the first five years of your life for your plumpness. |
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Indeed, despite their diminutive size, his figurines often had hourglass shapes that hinted at plumpness and fertile futures. |
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Judging from the sweet perfume of the raspberries and the plumpness of the currants they'd obviously just been picked. |
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In another, tidy rows of young vegetables are being trickle-hosed into plumpness. |
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Nyasha's female relatives prize plumpness, delighting in their round hips and recognizing that the heavier one is, the better off her family is. |
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The goatee has survived but the puppyish plumpness of his face has been replaced by chiselled planes. |
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In addition to difficulties in finding a spouse, plumpness may also lessen sexual activity. |
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I remember photographs of my mother in her teens, a small girl given to plumpness, her pale face round, her lips thin. |
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She grew up being teased for her plumpness, starved and binged and wept her way through adolescence. |
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She will get far if she is not hampered by her natural inclination to plumpness. |
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Reaching out he grasped the berry noticing it's plumpness, he tried his best to pluck it. |
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These flowers have a plumpness which denies them the typical daintiness of February's fair maids. |
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He had an adolescent plumpness, a soft body, almost effeminate, with pale saggy legs. |
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A certain degree of plumpness doesn't necessarily mean that people die young. |
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During this time, estrogen levels begin decreasing and skin starts to lose its plumpness and tone. |
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They are known as coffee cherries for their plumpness and ripe red colour. |
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In the 19th century, plumpness was regarded as a sign of wealth. |
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This cultural difference in body weight preference may have reflected the documented tendency for plumpness to be considered attractive in food-scarce areas. |
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They attenuate plumpness by stimulating the elimination of water which can build up in tissues. |
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Her plump, honest features became vivid for a moment in his consciousness, the same plumpness in her arms and her hands. |
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Extract levels were lower than in 2009 due to higher barley protein and lower kernel plumpness. |
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Levels of thousand kernel weight and plumpness were lower than levels in 2009 due to cooler growing conditions which delayed seed maturity. |
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Firmness, plumpness and volume are the visible results of this 4-week course of treatment. |
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Thousand kernel weights and kernel plumpness levels were below long term averages. |
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This multi-faceted concentrate not only restores cumulative damage but also revives the lips' natural color, plumpness and vitality. |
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Close your eyes and imagine a deliciously mellow blend of blackcurrant buds and the sweet plumpness of mimosa and cocoa beans. |
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The association with FADs could also have a negative effect on growth and on the plumpness of skipjack tuna. |
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Fruity and sweetness of the blueberry wild aportent plumpness and freshness to this mustard. |
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While the lipofilling returns plumpness to the face, there is no effect on skin loosening, which can only be corrected by a lifting or a filting. |
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The Dacron® 95° filling is made from tiny cluster-fibres that can be refluffed easily, just like feather, to keep the initial shape and plumpness of your pillow. |
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Early seeding in the last week of April gets the crop off to a good start and tends to avoid the high heat of July, which helps maintain good kernel plumpness that selectors are looking for. |
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Svetlana, 165 cm, divorced, manager in a family business, lives with her little son in a good apartment: I am a beautiful, blue-eyed blonde, with a kind pleasant plumpness, a successful entrepreneur net of shop departments. |
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But they could not help staring at her, ogling her de-horned head, her emaciated flanks, her flaccid udders that no longer had the rosy plumpness of the youth. |
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As might feeling the plumpness of a hotel pillow or the temperature of a swimming pool by wearing a data glove attached to a computer. |
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In Japan, the shift from sashimi to teriyaki burgers has left 15m out of the population of 125m severely overweight. Even in relatively poor nations, plumpness is increasing. |
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The mood darkened further last week after an analyst questioned the plumpness of Citi's capital cushion and suggested that it might have to cut its dividend. |
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The process, which supposedly boosts the development of new blood cells and collagen, smooths out wrinkles and gives the skin elasticity and plumpness. |
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The slender, sad-eyed young woman photographed in 1917 soon disappeared behind a cladding of plumpness and prosperity, as Katya might have done had her marriage been less wretched. |
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I mean – apple with egg? Simon's Cornish mackerel lacked plumpness and excitement, but its accompanying army of squid roundels was slightly and tantalisingly smoked, and blended well with sea pickle and watercress. |
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Very flower and well spicy Wine so to the nose that to the palace, it is pleasant by his smooth plumpness and by his final one that renews with the spice. |
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This sweet, generous wine is endowed with an attractive plumpness to its fruit, with well-integrated oak and soft tannins that caress the palate through to the long finish. |
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Plumpness in a wife was a virtue, a sign of health and wealth. |
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