1135 examples of sturdy in sentences

Nicodemus from above assists her, standing erect and firmly planted, propping the dead Christ with a sturdy effort; while one of the Maries, on the left side, though plunged in sorrow, does all she can to assist the afflicted Mother, failing under the attempt to raise her Son.

Immediately the murder of all those innocents is resolved on; and a sturdy assassin sent with instructions to destroy the whole family (as Mr. Southey has it) "root and branch."

He looked at his large, sturdy form, at his brawny shoulders, at his deep chest and his long arms, remembering suddenly that he had seen him roll, with his own hands, the largest logs in the little chapel which no one else could move.

We launched a large canoe, and two sturdy natives, relations of Tatini, took the paddles.

Its square and sturdy tower lacks the grace of those western lanterns whose pinnacles are reflected in the waters of Severn and Wye.

In that part of the town nearest to the docks are several stone cellars of great age upon which later dwellings have been erected, in some cases two buildings have appeared on the same sturdy base.

The bronze figure represents the poet in his old fashioned country clergyman's dress, knee-breeches and buckled shoes, a satchel on his back and a sturdy staff in his hand.

The sixteenth-century church with its sturdy embattled tower is interesting.

The walls are nearly four feet thick and the buttresses are sturdy in proportion.

"I doubt it, miss," was the sturdy answer.

Here and there, rising out of the plain, are curious sharp ridges, or square-topped buttes with vertical sides, sometimes bare, and sometimes dotted with pines,short, sturdy trees, whose gnarled trunks and thick, knotted branches have been twisted and wrung into curious forms by the winds which blow unceasingly, hour after hour, day after day, and month after month, over mountain range and prairie, through gorge and coulée.

"The forest reels beneath the stroke Of sturdy woodman's axe; The earth receives the white man's yoke, And pays her willing tax Of fruits, and flowers, and golden harvest fields, And all that nature to blithe labour yields.

Now it rages; Oaks of ages, Writhing in the furious blast, Wide their leafy honours cast; Their gnarled arms do force to force oppose Deep rooted in the crevic'd rock, The sturdy trunk sustains the shock, Like dauntless hero firm against assailing foes.

But the provision shops and all the sturdy cheap shops of the poor go on naturally, without any self-consciousness, just as usual.

"Almost all the autumn plants are stocky and sturdy, but cosmos is as graceful as a summer plant and as delicate as a spring blossom.

Mrs. Morton and Mrs. Smith thought it was rather too cool, but the girls invited them to come and have afternoon cocoa with them and proved to their satisfaction that the rocks were so sheltered by their position and by the trees that towered above them that it would take a sturdy wind to make them really uncomfortable.

Sturdy James made a fine appearance in the spring division in the costume of a red and yellow tulip.

Don Sturdy in the land of giants.

Harriet S. Adams & Edna C. Squier (C); 20Aug57; R197892. Don Sturdy in the land of giants; or, captives of the savage Patagonians, by Victor Appleton, pseud.

(The Don Sturdy series)

Don Sturdy on the ocean bottom; or, The strange cruise of the Phantom, by Victor Appleton, pseud.

The camp of sturdy New Englanders on the St. Charles was hid by a swell in the land.

As a specimen we may take a passage in which the author deliberately followed Tasso, Celia's narration of her adventure with the centaur: There, to a sturdy Oak, he bound me fast And re-enforct his base inhumane bonds With the then danglinst Tresses of my hair; Ingrateful hair, ill-nurtur'd wicked Locks!

After telling how she was seized and carried to 'the middle of a desart wood,' Celia proceeds: There, to a sturdy oake, he bound me fast, Doubling my bonds with knots of mine own hayre; Ungratefull hayre, thou ill returnst my care.

Two sturdy miners walked to and fro as sentinels, armed with hammers, and firmly resolved that neither law nor gospel should interfere with this horrible example.

1135 examples of  sturdy  in sentences