| He was then thirty-one years of age, and of a compact, well-built figure, inclining to portliness. |
| Of less than average height, he had the incipient portliness of the gourmet. |
| More damningly, faster editing and increasingly artful camera angles have long been required to disguise Seagal's escalating portliness. |
| As middle age brings portliness to once lean-and-hungry politicians, so, freed from the tyranny of print and paper, the web brings prolixity to publishers. |
| Suddenly he laid his hat back, and drew up his form into as near a semblance of dignity as its portliness would allow. |
| To the common folk, however, the lure of portliness beckoned. |
