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Macaulay spoke of his "rector-like amplitude and rubicundity."

From Sydney Smith by Russell, George William Erskine

"Who are you?" said Wildeve, discerning by the candle-light an obscure rubicundity of person in his companion.

From The Return of the Native by Hardy, Thomas

For thirty years his mottled nose and the rubicundity of his cheeks were the ineffaceable ensigns of his intemperance.

From A Book of Scoundrels by Whibley, Charles

As both these worthies were distinguished by that rubicundity of face with which it is marked, the reader may decree the honour of a sitting to which he pleases.

From The Works of William Hogarth: In a Series of Engravings With Descriptions, and a Comment on Their Moral Tendency by Trusler, John

And presently Master Martin--to whom they had caused their coming to be announced--came out to them, in festal attire, and with no small amount of rubicundity of nose and cheeks.

From The Serapion Brethren, Vol. I. by Hoffmann, Ernst Theodor Wilhelm