Their physical resemblance would have been complete if an elderly embonpoint had not stretched Mrs.

Maston, began to acquire a degree of embonpoint which would have rendered them unrecognizable if their imprisonment had been prolonged to some months.

To understand how sarcastic were these exhortations, repeated at intervals, we should state that the approaching huntsman was a stout little man whose protuberant stomach was the evidence of a truly ministerial "embonpoint." He was struggling painfully across the furrows of a vast wheat-field recently harvested, the stubble of which considerably impeded him; while to add to his other miseries the sun's rays, striking obliquely on his face, collected an abundance of drops of perspiration.

That look of wan emaciation which anxiety or low spirits often communicates to a thoughtful, thin face, rather long than round, having vanished from hers; a clearness of skin almost bloom, and a plumpness almost embonpoint, softened the decided lines of her features.

She was slightly inclined to EMBONPOINT. [plump hourglass figure]

She is as erect in her comely embonpoint as a statue of Ceres; and her dark face, with its delicate aquiline nose, firm proud mouth, and small, intense, black eye, is so keen and sarcastic in its expression that you instinctively substitute a pack of cards for the chess-men and imagine her telling your fortune.

"Nothing grows in the shade, honey" - Singer Dolly Parton points to her embonpoint when told she has very small feet.

Singer Dolly Parton points to her embonpoint when told she has very small feet "Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list."

At the end, he wasn't slight, and resembled no one more than his brother Shammi, who brought embonpoint to the screen.