A fringe of the stocky shrubs curved over the jutting shelf of the rock, burning with timid pink blossoms at the crest of their blooming.
The hilly barrens and sedgy river-fields were combed into ordered rows of large-bladed corn and stocky cotton bushes.
Stocky Jim was the champion rough-and-tumble fighter of the Zion Church.
Dawson looked a question at stocky Wilson, hardly up to his vest pocket.
The large trees will bear a little fruit earlier than the small ones; but the injury by removal is so much greater, that the small stocky trees come into full, regular bearing much the soonest.
As plants grow up, transplant a part to a fresh bed, so as to give all a chance to grow stocky and strong.
A third-helper from Number 4, a short stocky Italian, shoveled with me.
He was a stocky young man with the intelligent face of an engineer.
The sergeant was a heavily built, stocky man, but the others were rather undersized, and of little spirit.
He glared at the stocky figure fronting him in infantry uniform.
His figure was the bulky one of the trained athlete, stocky and tremendously powerful, his hide that of an extreme blond burned by months of a tropic sun upon salt water.
Some of the crowd moving on paused and looked at a stocky man with a heavy mustache running across the street and shouting a woman's name.
He was a short, stocky man with a leathery face and little eyes.
His short stocky figure was dumped stolidly as if he meant never to move again; on his thick legs and feet he wore mufflings of cloth boot, into which his patched and stained grey-blue trousers were tucked.
There were many heavy wagons, it was true, but these were all drawn by stocky Percherons and big Western grays or stout Canada blacks who seemed fully equal to the task.
Slim stood for five minutes, a stolid, stocky figure in the midst of a storm of congratulatory comment.
Another salivation dampened the tiling as Nixon twisted hisstocky torso about.
Napoleon Bonaparte, with his tremendous activities on only four hours' sleep a day, is a good example of the short, stocky type.
He resumed his scrutiny of Grandma, apparently pleased with her short, stocky figure.
He was a handsome, stocky man whose face dripped water continually.
The stocky man wiped his face again, and I noticed that under the moisture of his skin there was a yellowish pallor.
They are either thick and stocky at the ankles, with a heap of ill-formed flesh above, or are thin almost to the vanishing point.
In the meantime, the dark, slim man was saying to the stocky one: "Can you beat it?
Only a grip on his arm, that of his morestocky companion, appeared to save the girl.
Rick got a quick glimpse of a stocky youth with carrot hair dodging into a doorway.
Coming from the hotel's side door on a dead run was a stocky youth of about their own age.
He was a short, stocky young man only a few years older than Rick, and his slightly sour look hid a keen sense of humor.
A stocky man in a brown suit said impatiently, "There's more to it than that, Tom.
Close to us, plain in the brilliant moonlight, were two stocky men on roan or bay horses.
The third are large, complex claws, and the fourth and fifth suggest broad, stocky endopodites.
Neolenus had compact stocky legs, which allowed little play of one segment on another, as is shown by the wide joints at right angles to the axis of the segment.
He had not quite reached the door when Stockyclumped after him, followed at intervals by Croaker and Fudge, and each just as the minister had begun: "Um!
For a minute she half feared it was the minister, until a shy, reluctant backwardness in the whole stocky figure and the stirring of a large furry creature just behind him made her sure it was not.
Atherton gazed at his stocky friend, not without admiration for his grit.
That's him, Wesley himself--the stocky little man of the two at the wheel.
If the stocky little man heard the hails that were sent after him, he made no sign, unless a faint dipping of his sou'wester back over his windward shoulder was his way of showing it.
At their heads a stocky man with a stubby red beard and a keen, alert, red-brown eye awaited her.
He wondered what he must seem in her eyes; with his shoulder on a level with hers, with his stocky build that saved him from effeminacy, his carefulness of attire--which is at once the burden and the salvation of the small man.
He was rather stocky as to build, but with good, square military shoulders and small hips.
In response to the detective's vigorous ring, the door was opened by a short, stocky man, at sight of whom the Doctor gave a start of surprise, but did not falter.
The shorter, more stocky of the two nocturnal visitors, without more ado switched on a pocket electric light and made a hasty but thorough survey of the room.
As soon as it is warm enough in the spring the plants should be set out about twelve inches apart in rich garden soil, and kept pinched back during May and June to insure a stocky growth.
This made the plants more stocky and more able to support their load of berries without the aid of wire or stakes.
