4 examples of plinian in sentences

I never could come into the custom of envelopes,'tis a modern foppery; the Plinian correspondence gives no hint of such.

" While at Edinburgh, Darwin was a member of the Plinian Society, and read a couple of papers on some observations in natural history.

I never could come into the custom of envelopes; 'tis a modern foppery; the Plinian correspondence gives no hint of such.

Your letters, filled with Plinian elegancies (more than becomes a Quaker), are so alien to Pliny's language, that you seem not to have a word (that is, a Roman word) to throw, as the saying is, at a dog.

4 examples of  plinian  in sentences