"Stalwart" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... came again into the sunny parlour prepared for his walk to Newnham. The rough farmer in hodden gray had disappeared, and in his place stood a stalwart and handsome young gentleman in green slashed doublet and hosen of soft cream cloth. A green cap with a white swan's feather perched jauntily on the dark, curling hair, and from a belt of pale buckskin hung a sword with ...
— Sea-Dogs All! - A Tale of Forest and Sea • Tom Bevan
... are they, whose manly breasts Beat back the pride of England's might; Whose stalwart arm laid low the crests Of many an old and valiant knight; When evening came with murderous flame, And liberty was but ...
— The Yankee Tea-party - Or, Boston in 1773 • Henry C. Watson
... that roams O'er mountain wilds, so does the King display A stalwart frame, instinct with vigorous life. His brawny arms and manly chest are scored By frequent passage of the sounding string; Unharmed he bears the midday sun; no toil His mighty spirit daunts; his sturdy limbs, Stripped of redundant flesh, relinquish nought Of their robust proportions, but appear ...
— Sakoontala or The Lost Ring - An Indian Drama • Kalidasa
... she had put up with so much anxious care; the game that she had prepared for the amusement of the stalwart yeomen of the country; the sport that had been honoured by the affection of so many of their ancestors! It cut her to the heart to hear it so denominated by her own brother. There were but the two of them left together in the world; and it had ever been one of the rules by which Miss Thorne ...
— Barchester Towers • Anthony Trollope
... country. The first ostensible object that brought the people together under their immediate guidance and control was the reaping of a field of wheat belonging to O'Mahony. A vast crowd amounting to several hundred stalwart men assembled. They had scarcely entered on their labour when the approach of a troop of horse was announced. O'Mahony and Savage were compelled to retire. The military cavalcade entered the field, and rode rudely among the men and ripe corn. Still ...
— The Felon's Track • Michael Doheny
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