1 His thickset torso was supported by short sturdy legs, always incased in the finest leather boots procurable and always planted wide apart like a swaggering small boy's.
2 They were a kindly people, courteous, generous, filled with abounding good nature, but sturdy, virile, easy to anger.
3 There are plenty of sturdy Union patriots who are not averse to picking up money selling goods to the Confederacy.
4 She straightened her tired back and, looking over the browning autumn fields, she saw next year's crop standing sturdy and green, acre upon acre.
5 She had short sturdy legs and wide eyes of Irish blue and a small square jaw that went with a determination to have her own way.
6 He was about a year old, and a sturdy little fellow, with soft fat legs, and a round ball of a stomach, and eyes as black as coals.
7 Notwithstanding the symptoms of habitual suspicion, his countenance was not only without guile, but at the moment at which he is introduced, it was charged with an expression of sturdy honesty.
8 Doctrine or no doctrine," said the sturdy woodsman, "'tis the belief of knaves, and the curse of an honest man.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 9 Uncas permitted his eyes to turn for an instant on the sturdy countenance of the speaker, but he neither spoke nor gave any indication of repentance.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 12 10 The scout, remembering only his own sturdy and iron nature, had probably exacted a task that David, under no circumstances, could have performed.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22 11 They paused to permit the longing and lingering gaze of the sturdy woodsman, and when it was ended, the body was enveloped, never to be unclosed again.
The Last of the Mohicans By James Fenimore CooperContext Highlight In CHAPTER 33 12 He felt a quiet manhood, nonassertive but of sturdy and strong blood.
13 It was, indeed, high time that someone capable of giving advice and help should come to the aid of the sturdy old farmer and his adopted daughter.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER IV. A FLIGHT FOR LIFE 14 The sturdy old man, whom he had left so short a time before, was gone, then, and this was all his epitaph.
A Study In Scarlet By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In PART II: CHAPTER V. THE AVENGING ANGELS 15 It happened that Jessie and Bluebell had both whelped soon after the hay harvest, giving birth between them to nine sturdy puppies.