Henley's personality was exceedingly robust, in contrast with his health, and in his writings and talk he delighted in shocking people.

"You're right, dear," he said with a sigh so naively robust, so remarkably hearty, that she laughed outrighta very tremulous and uncertain laugh.

He has even been known to be hearty at breakfast; to come trampling into the dug-out with that blinking old smile on his face, expressing immense satisfaction with life in general at the top of a peculiarly robust voice; to tread on his captain's toes and slap his next-door neighbour heartily on the back, and then to explain to a swearing and choking audience how splendidly he has slept, and what a topping day it is going to be.

Never physically robust, he began to grow blue and drawn about the nostrils.

The English men and women are the most systematic in their habits of living; and, as a natural result, they are remarkably robust.

* GENERAL APPEARANCEA lady's little dogintelligent, sprightly, robust, of compact appearancereminding one of a cob, and captivating the attention by a quasi-human expression.

The columns are well proportioned, and suitably robust, carrying solidity, grace, and beauty in every part; from the massy grandeur of the abacus, to the graceful revolving of the beautiful echinus, and to the majestic simplicity of the slightly indented flutings."

There is something at first sight strange and hostile about Mary Taylor, the energetic, practical, determined, terribly robust person you see so plainly trying, in the dawn of their acquaintance, to knock the nonsense out of Charlotte.

I felt very weak indeed (though of a tolerably robust habit) as we came opposite the head of this path on that morning.