"At them words his craven face turned an ashen gray, and he fastened upon me a glare of baffled rage that might well have made a stouter heart quail before it, but I returned his glare fearlessly and backed swif'ly to the door, feelin' for the knob.

Yet who need pity them, as long as they have stouter limbs, healthier stomachs, and clearer consciences, than they have had since they left Eton at seventeen?

He was to experience a stouter resistance from Raymond of Toulouse, who, though he had been the first to enlist, was the last to set out on his crusade.

Never did the Knights of Arthur's Round Table meet in a stouter fight than did these two.

It was no easy matter to perceivehowever curiously men lookedwhich was the stouter knight, or to judge who would be victor in the joust.

But they, also, went at last with Ruth to assist the stouter lady in getting up the stairs.

The mighty trump and the mellow fife, Nerving the limbs to a stouter life; Thrilling they sound with their glorious tone, Thrilling they go, through the marrow and bone.

The coat and trousers were made for a stouter man.

We are intended to infer, presumably, that if the Imperial Family had been constructed of stouter material it might still be in the Winter Palace.

The Warblers mostly have smooth slender beaks, but the Vireos have stouter ones, with a little hooked point that enables them to pick out and secure a great variety of insects.

Most of the officers were fine, sturdy, young fellows of stouter physique than the French among whom I had been roving.

But a ride in Braydon or in the Bicester "Claydons" will convince us that a stouter stamp of horse is necessary to combat a deep, undrained clay country.

But Henry Rogers is made of stouter stuff; he manfully avows that a religion, if it is true, ought to stand the test of ridicule, and he deliberately approves this weapon of attack.

Louison was a year older and of stouter build.

Oxen were much wanted, but one of his new colonists had yoked his cows, and it was thought they might be made useful, in a moderate degree, until their stouter substitutes could be reared.

but they would know of his errand, for he rode to the mount to be assured as to whether he or the giant was the stouter champion.

I say, brother, I've known stouter fellows take the same ride, who never knew when or how they got down again.