122 examples of sturdily in sentences

He was short but very sturdily built, and wore a fine laced coat not made for him, which hung to his knees, and was stretched tight at the armpits.

" "Ay, marry, that will I abide thy coming, and joyously, too," quoth the stranger; whereupon he leaned sturdily upon his staff to await Robin.

" "That may be," said the Tinker right sturdily, "but I am more deft than he, for did I not overcome Simon of Ely in a fair bout in the ring at Hertford Town?

His limbs were stout and strong, and he strode along the dusty road right sturdily with the heavy sack across his shoulders.

" So each stepped sturdily upon his way until a green hill rose between them, and the one was hid from the sight of the other.

" "You look nice now," declared Bob sturdily.

She taxed him with it so sturdily that efforts at deception availed him not.

Tom, all in a panic at the very thought of the two ladies, sturdily refused to stay even for the dish of tea Mr. Chillingsworth offered him.

But Will said sturdily, 'Mistresses, you may do as you will; I will neither eat nor sleep in that evil house.

The perplexities and discouragements of Washington were great indeed, while he stubbornly held the field with a beggarly makeshift for an army and sturdily continued his appeals to Congress and to the country for men, arms, and clothing; yet only New York City and New Jersey were really in the possession of the enemy.

Chill as the Scottish summer is reputed to be, we found it an awfully hot day, not a whit less so than the day before; but we sturdily adventured through the burning sunshine up into the town, inquiring our way to the residence of Burns.

It was interesting to watch this square little man roll sturdily along, throwing out his stout arms impatiently and flinging at the nervous villagerswho treated him almost as a sort of feudal lordguttural Flemish commands to keep cool and not make fools of themselves.

" "Their presence shall not prevent me from making my cudgel and your shoulders acquainted, if you do not budge," replied the apprentice, sturdily.

"He spoke very improperly to me at first," said Andy, sturdily.

Through that same window she had watched Jack Fyfe walk out of her life three months ago without a backward look, sturdily, silently, uncomplaining.

" "I shan't go without Roy," said Dudley, sturdily.

On the other hand it was a satisfaction to work sturdily for a hard boss, and so be able to say in an interchange of amenities: "Go long, half-priced nigger!

Harry had already given his orders to Jacob, who commanded the left wing of the infantry, and the regiment, drawing up on both flanks of the column of Ironsides, poured so heavy a fire upon them, while the cavalry of Macleod again charged them in front, that the column was broken, and still fighting sturdily, fell back again across the river.

But as if impelled by a hidden force he had never felt before, Baldy sturdily forged on and on, till they, too, were left behind.

There was another cause of dislike underlying [the case against Messala,the point, namely, that he sturdily made public many facts in the senate.

It is enough that Albert replied sturdily, and that he went away presently with his vanity piqued by her censures.

when Mr. John Allen sd did she not teach you to knitt, she answered sturdily and sayd, I do not know that I am bound to tell you & at another time being pressed to answ she sayd, nay I will hould what I have if I must die, yet after this she confessed that she had so much intimacy with one of ym as that they did change woorke one with another.

"I 'spose we do," answered the son sturdily, though sulkily; "but that's the very best skit that Blank Blank ever did for us.

Thus both trudged ahead sturdily, Simon with the firm step of the hardened wanderer, Frederick unsteadily and as if in a dream.

I told him as sturdily as I could that I was the son of his old proctor and that I had often heard my father tell the story.

122 examples of  sturdily  in sentences