1 Miss Bea was a stalwart, corn-colored, laughing young woman, and she was bored by farm-work.
2 They are mostly young, of stalwart frames; fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleGet Context In CHAPTER 6. The Street. 3 Antonia came in and stood before me; a stalwart, brown woman, flat-chested, her curly brown hair a little grizzled.
My Antonia By Willa CatherGet Context In BOOK 5. Cuzak's Boys: I 4 He banged at the door, and presently the heads of the old man and his two stalwart sons were thrust from windows.
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer By Mark TwainGet Context In CHAPTER XXIX 5 A rich uniform, half French, half Oriental, set off his graceful and stalwart figure, and his broad chest was decorated with the order of the Legion of Honor.
The Count of Monte Cristo By Alexandre DumasGet Context In Chapter 40. The Breakfast. 6 The apartment and furniture would have been nothing extraordinary as belonging to a homely, northern farmer, with a stubborn countenance, and stalwart limbs set out to advantage in knee-breeches and gaiters.
Wuthering Heights By Emily BronteGet Context In CHAPTER I 7 We had all risen to our feet, our prisoner breathing hard, with a stalwart constable on each side of him.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes By Arthur Conan DoyleGet Context In I. THE ADVENTURE OF THE EMPTY HOUSE 8 But afterwards, when the old stalwarts were pumphandling everybody at the door and calling 'em 'Brother' and 'Sister,' they let me sail right by with nary a clinch.'
Main Street By Sinclair LewisGet Context In CHAPTER XXVI