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.

What stout Tory, indeed, would doze of an evening on such a sheet!

I went into a pub and 'ad a couple o' pints o' stout and a crust o' bread and cheese for brekfuss.

Who, leaning on the belly of a pot, Pourd foorth a water, whose out gushing flood Ran bathing all the creakie@ shore aflot, Whereon the Troyan prince spilt Turnus blood; And at his feete a bitch wolfe suck did yeeld To two young babes: his left the palme tree stout, His right hand did the peacefull olive wield.

Now if you will just let me show you" "Why you are putting that stout girl"indicating Bengal"in the stern of the canoe?

He made ripping stout.

Surely, I had fainted away, for, when I came to myself, I found my red comforter loosed, my face all wet, Isaac rubbing down his waistcoat with his sleevethe laddie swigging ale out of a bickerand the brisk brown stout, which, by casting its cork, had caused all the alarm, whizz-whizz, whizzing in the chimney lug.

When he had again bandaged his feet and slipped them into his shoes, he looked around him, and selected a stout sapling from among the undergrowth that covered the bank of the stream.

So Robin took his sword again and buckled it at his side; then he bent his stout back and took the Friar upon it.

One does more of one thing and another of another, and the feet soon show the effects of the occupation, the claws first, then the muscles, and even the bones dwindling by disuse, or waxing stout and strong.