superannuated

fulsome

healthy white teeth, of a complexion tanned just so.

glissading,

bibulous

The ‘bisexual’, so far as I was concerned, was a libeller of the self and of its profoundest instincts; to say the least, a victim of the most unproductive kind of wishful thinking.

This bronzed boy looked as though he must smell of freshly baked bread.

enervated

Sex is destiny, is written – an injunction, a commandment, a ukase, to which no resistance, with which no compromise, has ever been possible. I had no great fears on that account.