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Turner, with his lumbering gait and broad, suety face, dominates the picture, seeming to personify his age and all its contradictions.

From New York Times • Dec. 18, 2014

At first the laborer-teachers do little except work, sleep and eat, while suety muscles harden.

From Time Magazine Archive

It rains all the time; the cooking is miserable� nothing but mutton, tea, suety puddings�and, good lord, the beer is served warm.

From Time Magazine Archive

Out went his closest rival for leadership, suety, triple-chinned Georgy Malenkov, 55, whom the British, having seen them all, considered the ablest of the Russian leaders.

From Time Magazine Archive

It spoke in a thick, suety sort of voice, and Alice hadn't a word to say in reply: she could only sit and look at it and gasp.

From Through the Looking-Glass by Carroll, Lewis