Shortly he dropped a new stout rope used in securing hay loads.

With the help of his stick the old Guide pulled his big body up on his one stout leg, hobbled nearer and gravely eyed Muckluck's offering as it swung to and fro on its walrus-string over the Leader's head.

What do you mean by that?" "That's what it was," said the stout burglar; "no more nor less.

The square stout form, the bull-neck and broad shoulders, the powerful arms and coarse rough hands, the legs bowed from incessant riding, showed a frame fashioned to an extraordinary strength.

Vassili and his sister the marquisea stout lady in ruby velvet and amethysts, who invariably caused Maggie Delafield's mouth to twitch whenever she opened her own during the eveningreceived the guests in the drawing-room

"Why," quoth he, "it is a merry thing to think of one stout outlaw like Robin Hood meeting another stout outlaw like Guy of Gisbourne.

Stout spars, of some thirty feet in height, well planted in the ground and placed about three hundred and fifty feet apart, would in this case be required, along the tops of which the circuit might be stretched.

"I must needs own thou art a brave and a sturdy soul and, withal, a good stout stroke with the cudgels.

" After a moment's pause he added: "Got t' be a joemightyful stout tree, er he 'll shake ye out uv it luk a ripe apple.

Out of the tanks stout tubes led, with stop-cocks and gages at the top.

A riding-habit of stout broadcloth was pronounced indispensable to my equipment.

I found the overseer of the cattle with a short handled stout whip, which had been broken.

We had to take particular care to protect our hands and legs from their attacks: and for this purpose each one had provided himself with a short stout club.

Nevertheless, his character had lost none of its high chivalry; and even there, as he sat on the taffrail of the stranded Feu-Follet, he meditated carrying some stout Englishman by surprise and boarding, in the event of his not succeeding in getting off the lugger.