20 examples of stoutish in sentences
Below, at a bend of the road, stood a stoutish figure in the uniform of the Axcester Volunteersscarlet, with white facings.
Comrade Adair's rather a stoutish fellow in his way.
Mr. Micawber was a stoutish, middle-aged person, in a brown surtout, with no more hair upon his head than there is upon an egg, and with a very extensive face.
he asked; and then with a serio-comic glance at his stoutish friend, 'I don't think Smithson waltzes?' 'I have been told that nobody can waltz who has been born on this side of the Pyrenees,' answered Lesbia, withdrawing her arm from her lover's, and slipping, it through the Spaniard's, with the air of a slave who obeys a master.
Dr. Cashmore was at the door, and still another man of fifty, a stern-set, blue-chinned, stoutish person in deep and perfect mourning, including black gloves.
Descending to the office to buy some postcards, the boys found, lounging about the desk, a stoutish man with a rather dissipated face, puffy under the eyes and heavy about the jaws.
It was revived by the appearance of a ruddy middle-sized young man, his stoutish figure tightly buttoned into a square-shouldered over-coat, who presently approached along the path that led to the arbour.
It was a stoutish stickI should say a Malacca, probablyand it had what looked like a horn handle.
He was a stoutish, clean-shaven man, of middle height, and of a cheerful, round countenance.
There, behind a writing-table, sat the stoutish man himself, who had only just advised an appeal to the clerk.
Nancy Webb, with a very fine color, a very curly fringe, and a wide smiling mouth revealing a fine set of teeth, came to the bar at the summons of a stoutish old gentleman in spectacles who walked with a stick.
The stoutish old gentleman had a glass of bitter beer, and then said in the peculiarly quiet voice of a very deaf man: "Can you tell me, if you please, the way into the main Catton road?" "Down the lane, turn to the right at the cross-roads, then first to the left.
He was a stoutish man, apparently aged about forty-five, very fair, with a puffed face and melancholy eyes.
And then entered a man whose years seemed to be something short of fifty, a hale, ruddy-cheeked, stoutish man, whose dress and bearing made it probable that he was no Londoner.
There was oneI can see him nowa stoutish ruddy man on a crutch.
The door was opened almost instantly by a short, rather stoutish man, well past the prime of life.
I joined all my fishing-lines together with stems of seaweed and things, and made a stoutish string, perhaps twelve yards in length or more, and I fastened two lumps of coral rock to the ends of this.
They held that, though you had loved in vain, it was no such mighty matter to boast of; but they were poor in argument, and their only really strong card was that Mr. Sandys was stoutish himself.
One was a stoutish man with sandy hair, the other a very long person like a knitting-needle.
" Mr. Sewell was turning over a third chop, when the door opened and a stoutish, middle-aged little gentleman, clad in deep black, stepped into the room.