"In my early childhood I had been spared, by the tenderest of mothers, from many of the ablutions practised by the Hindoos, under the belief that they would be injurious to my constitution, which, though healthy, had never been robust.

Salt or vinegar should be added to the water; and if the boy be robust, cold water may be used throughout the year; if not, in the winter season it must be made tepid.

Still, his frame was robust and powerful.

There are robust virtues that can stand in these temptations; mine was not so: I had a thirst of pleasure.

Do you think it is robust?

No; he had the vision of the future; he was robust with feeling for others.

Do you always go?" "Oh, always!" "Your mental constitution must be robust to stand such a steady strain upon it.

Her mind, too, was robust and active, and full of curiosity; it listened by the hour and never tired.

They were fair-haired children, probably of German or Norwegian origin, and had grown up to be robust young women of seventeen, when Walker saw them for the first time, as he stopped at the Dalles on his way from Fort Nez-Percés about one hundred and twenty-five miles higher up the Columbia.

That it had been his fatal love for her that had brought Jenny to her death, his reason, except in moments of self-injustice, was robust enough to put aside.

His father's health, which had never been robust, and had been failing for some time, at length quite broke down; and it soon became apparent that, although he might linger for some time, there was no hope of his recovery.

But these are two contradictory suppositions in the state of nature, to be robust and dependent.

'Shall we be a race of clever crocks, or shall we give up civilisation and education and be robust imbeciles?' 'Either,' I said, 'will be an improvement on the present régime, of crocky imbeciles.'

When the trees finally are robust and vigorous and have reached the age of two to five years, they are dug up carefully and set out permanently.

The rough life they led, and the frequent exposure to intense cold, had considerably weakened a frame which had never been robust, and an occasional cough, when he told a long story, sometimes warned him to desist.

His constitution had never been robust, and he died of consumption a week after we landed.

There are lines and phrases that recall Keats himself, though truly the tone of the book is robust enough to satisfy the most impassioned of Tory editors.

It was robust enough when it played with sentimentalists.

He was robust and hearty over the sirloin and the leg of mutton.

At first it was an even match, for Gwenda's intellect, like her body, was robust.

His constitution is robust, in spite of the excessive fatigue he has constantly undergone and still undergoes in so many expeditions and travels.

There are robust virtues that can stand in these temptations; mine was not so: I had a thirst of pleasure.

Not only was he unusually vigorous; he was robust and heavy, yet exceedingly active.

Thus, despite some agreeable scenes, the book remains one for the unsophisticated, or for those whose appetite for fictional glucose is robust.

"Six months ago," she said, "my father was robust and active in spite of his age.