1 The "burly Negro" was promptly lynched without investigation or examination of inconsistant stories.
2 Upon both sides of this wheel there was a narrow space, into which came the hogs at the end of their journey; in the midst of them stood a great burly Negro, bare-armed and bare-chested.
3 They seemed, for the most part, to be very burly men.
4 On they came, and in a moment the burly form of Tom appeared in sight, almost at the verge of the chasm.
5 George looked over the rocks, and saw them trying to lift the burly form of Tom into the saddle.
6 So spoke the burly Priest, assuming, on his part, high defiance.
7 Sitting down and throwing back his outer coat, the man displayed the burly frame of Sikes.
8 The words were hardly out of his mouth before a man appeared at the door of the room, a very fat and burly man, with a heavy stick in his hand.
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In XII. THE ADVENTURE OF THE COPPER BEECHES 9 In person he was a thick-set, burly man with a shock of grizzled hair, a brown, weather-beaten face, and blue eyes which were keen to the verge of fierceness.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In V. The Adventure of The "Gloria Scott" 10 A burly Sussex policeman and I had found it no light job.
The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In VI. The Adventure of The Musgrave Ritual 11 A burly policeman sweated behind him and seemed at every moment about to act.
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man By James JoyceContext Highlight In Chapter 5 12 You know I am no light weight, and the others were both burly men.
13 The swing of his burly body made his friend execute a few light skips from the path to the roadway and back again.
14 He was a burly man of an exceedingly dark complexion, with an exceedingly large head, and a corresponding large hand.
15 He was dressed in a legal-looking suit of black, and loomed, burly and large, in that small office.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 39. WICKFIELD AND HEEP