The sea gives him fish enough for his family, and for a brawny brown servant.
It seemed odd to think of a farrier--the brawny blacksmith of the village chestnut-tree--helping to undress dolls and smacking them when they misbehaved themselves.
This big, brawny world rover, who has been acquainted with alcohol from boyhood, comes out boldly against John Barleycorn.
Then, looking up, he saw the man hauled over the edge, and five seconds later his shoulders were grasped by Grinson's brawny hands, and he lay among thick grass.
Suddenly he gave the sign; Grinson caught the propeller, and with a heave of his brawny arm swung it about.
But Grinson's brawny arms arrested the monster in the nick of time, and he secured it temporarily by means of smaller rocks wedged between it and the earth.
The three officers on the edge of the struggling crowd shouted out orders, and several brawny countrymen were secured after a hard scuffle.
The thing that bears this glittering pomp Is but a tawdry ill-bred romp, Whose brawny limbs and martial face Proclaim her of the Gothic race, More than the mangled pageantry Of all the father's heraldry.
The appointment for the ensuing night he heard, } And therefore in the cavern had prepared } Two brawny yeomen of his trusty guard.
When she thought of Gunrig, she wished with all her heart and soul that she had been born a big brawny man.
Then he made him remove his upper garments, and examined his broad and brawny shoulders.
Stalwart forms fall by our side, and brawny arms are stricken.
For all his brawny arms, Weitzel would be torn away by the clutch of that hurling mass, were not the strain eased by the stretch of fourteen thongs of rubber, seven on a side, that support his bar cords.
Long past are the days when bolts were driven by brawny arms and the slow swing of a sledge.
Burns has a broad and brawny humanity that appeals to all men, and, besides Burns, there are scores of major and minor warblers that are interesting, quotable, and full of grace.
How insignificant a mere bookworm or scholar feels among a company of brawny Liddesdale farmers!
Then again, the kilt is very impressive on a brawny chairman's legs: it commands attention and respect at once.
Here Wallingford found the proprietor and the brawny boy in the middle of the wide barn floor, in earnest consultation over the bruised hock of a fine, big, draft horse.
The little boy is much fairer than the brawny daughter who seems his mother.
Looking intently in the child's face, she laughs with the bounding joy of her soul; then she smooths its hair with her brawny black hands: they contrast strangely with the pure carnatic of the child's cheek.
Bob's face is white with beard, and his coarse garments are much worn and ragged; but there is something pleasing in the familiarity with which Franconia accepts his brawny hand.
While this was going on, a brawny hand reached into the window, and quickly withdrew the paper from the table.
His flushed face glows red with excitement; he runs his brawny fingers through the tufted mats of short curly hair that stand almost erect on his head, draws his capacious jaws into a singular angle, and makes a hideous grimace.
He will draw nearer to her, toss her undulating hair, playfully, and with seeming unconsciousness draw his brawny hand across her bosom.
Then, as though he were ashamed of his doubts, one brawny sailorman stepped forward and said that he was ready for a cut at the Spanish thieves in foul weather as in fair.
Bulger, brawny warrior of the iron hook, swung his musket like a flail, every now and again shooting forth his more sinister weapon with terrible effect.
As he awaited the fatal signal he tested the edge of his horrible weapon by honing it upon his brawny forearm or decapitated in rapid succession a flock of sheep which had been provided by the admirers of his fell but necessary office.
Behind the atomics were the Kruchek drivers, twin brawny giants chained to the treadmill they pushed through the skies.
When Bill Krucheck's going-faster-than-hell drivers dug their toes into the lattice of space and put brawny shoulders behind every molecule within the field they generated, a ship within that field went faster than light.
That bigbrawny fellow, with the frame of a man and the brain of a child, with his guileless face and his guileless heart, strangely moved his compassion.
He could not get close enough to use his brawny muscles; and in precision of aim and adroitness of movement he was not Viggo's match.
They were a tall, big fisted, brawny lot of men who came across the Adirondacks from Vermont, and began to break the green canopy that for ages had covered the valley of the St Lawrence.
The principal of the Hillsborough Academy was a big, brawny bachelor of Scotch descent, with a stem face and cold, grey, glaring eyes.
The Icelander was a brawnyyoung fellow of about twenty, of great height and big muscles, and with long red hair.
By this time Stephen had slipped out of the noisome place, and was rambling on the quiet shore alone, with head bent, cheeks ashy pale, eyes fixed, and his brawny hands thrust deep into his pockets.
Campbell, in the manner of a musical critic of some skill, leaned back in a chair with his brawny arms folded behind his head and his eyes half closed.
Then, the besieged set to work with a will, brawny arms and knowing heads helping to construct trenches and shelters, splinter proofs and tunnels, which should defy the snorting weapons of the Dutchmen.
The romantic were even wont to look on him as another Cromwell of the English--a new Hofer of the Tyrolese--a brawny moral giant, to wonder at and revere.
Sotheby said it was worth a journey from London to hear him translate a Greek chorus; and, at a later day, the brawny Cumberland men called him "a varra bad un to lick.
Before another booth stood a pair of brawny fighting-men, displaying their muscle, and soliciting patronage for an exhibition of the noble British art of pugilism.
Tobacco protuberant in cheek, his feet half bare, his trousers ragged and fringed to the knee, his sleeves rolled up over brown and brawny arms, Jed Wingate now was enrolled on the list of men.
He forgot everything but contact, rushed, closed and caught his antagonist in the brawny grip of his arms.
Before him he saw a great, broad-shouldered lieutenant, whose brawny hand seemed almost too large for his sword-hilt, and in any one of whose limbs played more animal life than in the whole body of the pale youth.
When they open upon the reality again, the illusion is dispelled by the sight of a brawny negro, with a grin on his face which threatens to split his ears, jogging merrily along the street with a huge piece of sturgeon for his Sunday feast.
