Though I was pretty large and stout of my age, yet these burthens were very grievous to me, being only about six years and a half old.

But with my spear of Faith, Stout as an oaken rafter, With my round shield of laughter, With my sharp, tongue-like sword That speaks a bitter word, I stood beneath the wall And there defied them all.

Till earth and seas and skies are rended!" Beneath each swinging forest-bough Some arm as stout in death reposes, From wave-washed foot to heaven-kissed brow Her valor's life-blood runs in roses; Nay, let our brothers of the West Write smiling in their florid pages, One-half her soil has walked the rest In poets, heroes, martyrs, sages!

" "Just nice time for a snackoysters and stout for you, my darling?" said jovial Neddy.

And Charlie don't be too stout with your father, he was very much out of temper when you came home last night, but be calm; it will blow over in a few days, don't add fuel to the fire.

And 'mong the elves be Puck today, The stoutest at the wedding!

We are pretty stout about it; have had plenty of condoling friends; but, after all, we had rather it should have succeeded.

"Another hopeless half-hour would have brought down from his pride the stoutest among usenter, and thank God!"

And the prince said, 'That one whose complexion is bright like that of pure gold, who is stout like a full-grown lion, whose nose is so prominent, whose eyes are large and expansive, and whose face is broad and of coppery hue, is the king of the Kurus.

" "I grant you," said the Brigadier, "but a fellow should be stout along accepted lines.

How was it that Roosevelt grew stout on it?

If the last six books, which are said to have been destroyed in Ireland, had been preserved, we doubt whether any heart less stout than that of a commentator would have held out to the end.

Stout through the body.

He had grown stout during the last five or six years, and he looked like a veritable mountain of flesh overlaid with rolls of fat.