It was not greedy. It was voluptuous. She remembered seeing somewhere a picture of some Sultan of the East reclining on a divan and smoking a chibouk. She thought Ruffo had looked rather like the Sultan, serenely secure of all earthly enjoyment. At that moment the Pool of San Francesco had stood to the boy for the Paradise of Mahomet. But Ruffo had not come again. Each morning Vere had listened for his voice, had looked down upon the sea for his boat, but all in vain. On the third day she had felt almost angry with him unreasonably.英文原著 · 《A Spirit in Prison》
Maskull stood erect where they had stopped, and watched Panawe out of sight. He sighed more than once. He became aware that something was about to happen. The air was breathless. The late - afternoon sunshine, unobstructed, wrapped his frame in voluptuous heat. A solitary cloud, immensely high, raced through the sky overhead. A single trumpet note sounded in the far distance from somewhere behind him. It gave him an impression of being several miles away at first; but then it slowly swelled, and came nearer and nearer at the same time that it increased in volume.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
A great calmness came upon him; his bad sensations had disappeared. Sullenbode was transformed into a living soul. Her skin was firm, her features were strong, her eyes gleamed with the consciousness of power. She was tall and slight, but slow in all her gestures and movements. Her face was not beautiful. It was long, and palely lighted, while the mouth crossed the lower half like a gash of fire. The lips were as voluptuous as before. Her brows were heavy.英文原著 · 《A Voyage to Arcturus》
"No matter." And having discovered the pillow, she adjusted it beneath her head. She extended herself in the hammock with a deep breath of relief. She was not a supercilious or an over-dainty woman. She was not much given to reclining in the hammock, and when she did so it was with no cat-like suggestion of voluptuous ease, but with a beneficent repose which seemed to invade her whole body.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
She leaned over and kissed him--a soft, cool, delicate kiss, whose voluptuous sting penetrated his whole being-then she moved away from him. He followed, and took her in his arms, just holding her close to him. She put her hand up to his face and pressed his cheek against her own. The action was full of love and tenderness. He sought her lips again. Then he drew her down upon the sofa beside him and held her hand in both of his.英文原著 · 《Awakening & Selected Short Stories》
The hair of the dancers floated free, and their limbs blushed through the robes of gauze which scarcely draped them. Words may not be used to tell of the voluptuousness of the dance. One brief round, and they darted off through the yielding crowd lightly as they had come. "Now what think you?" cried the man to the woman. "Who are they?" she asked. "Devadasi--priestesses devoted to the Temple of Apollo. There is an army of them. They make the chorus in celebrations.英文原著 · 《Ben-Hur》
It's the designers They have a cruel streak whenit comes to...voluptuous women.美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》
And were all the women as'beautiful and voluptuous as you?美剧 · 《Ugly Betty》