Carol as he stuffed an icy mass down Pat's neck and administered a stout kick in the shins as nearly simultaneously as he could manage.
He was a stout lad but he found the rolling process more difficult than he had imagined.
Katy pointed this last remark by a withering glance at Chicken Little's feet which were beginning to be much too big for the rest of her, and were encased in stout boots with tiny copper rims on the toes which she heartily loathed.
The stoutyeomen clattered after him; the sound of their pursuit soon died away; and Phebe returned to woman's work of nursing, watching, and praying.
All the windows were protected by stout oaken shutters which, when closed, almost transformed the dwelling into a fortress, giving security against any ordinary attack.
This plan was easy of execution, and for a few moments the stout farmer thought that his hour had come.
While indisposed to fight, it was evident that the good man intended to interpose between himself and his enemies all the passive resistance that his stout little domicile could offer.
Securing a stout horse and wagon at the hotel, he drove furiously for the surgeon, explained the urgency, and then, with the rural healer at his side, almost killed the horse in returning.
These words were spoken by two stout negroes, who had stolen to the battlefield as the sounds of conflict died away.
Fortunately the night was a little damp, and the stout thick door had kindled slowly.
In the courage of his stout heart Pallas Athene herself could find nothing to reproach, when in the bloody fight he pressed onward with the foremost, beset with the thick volley of the enemy.
But it shall come to pass that when the Lord hath performed his whole work upon Mount Zion and on Jerusalem, I will punish the fruit of the stoutheart of the king of Assyria, and the glory of his high looks.
Desperate, we thought we might at least see the ponds and the falls, and early one hazy morning started off with strong wagon, stout horses, and careful driver.
To thestout words of the doubters is opposed the conversation of the godly.
After dinner we sat for an hour or so near the window, without talking much; and then Mr. Peggotty got up, and brought his oilskin bag and his stout stick, and laid them on the table.
It was a stout pale pudding, heavy and flabby, and with great flat raisins in it, stuck in whole at wide distances apart.
It was not until we had rung three or four times that we could prevail on Mrs. Crupp to communicate with us, but at last she appeared, being a stout lady with a flounce of flannel petticoat below a nankeen gown.
As it rings softly out on the pleasant spring air, another stout slug has made the Great Change.
The stout young man, whose peculiar behaviour had drawn all this flattering attention from the many-headed and who appeared considerably ruffled by the publicity, had been puffing noisily during the foregoing conversation.
It was a full-length photograph and across the stout legs was written in a flowing hand the legend, "To Babe from her little Pootles".
We all of us have our Achilles heel, and--paradoxically enough--in the case of the stout young man that heel was his hat.
The slim and elegant young man at the wheel removed his goggles, pulled out a watch, and addressed the stout young man at his side.
The stout young man was bending over it and stroking it with soothing fingers.
There was Lord Marshmoreton at the head of the table, listening glumly to the conversation of a stout woman with a pearl necklace, but who was that woman?
The policeman tapped the stout young man on the shoulder.
They could at least hope that a strong arm and a stout heart would carry them past those solid walls; they had not to think of social etiquette.
George brought his hand round with a sweep and knocked the stout young man's silk hat off.
Short of throwing his head up and baying, the stout young man behaved exactly as a bloodhound in similar circumstances would have conducted itself.
The last George saw was a group scene with the stout young man in the middle of it.
As he spoke Griggs put his hand to his belt, in which a stoutkeen hunting or bowie-knife was stuck, and drew out the glittering blade.
Then the red-hot stones are lifted with sticks and dropped into the turtle, hissing and spluttering, and stirred about with a stout stick.
A good many pairs of stout little shoes have come out of Miss Clare’s silver tea-pot!
Dora, hunting about for her stout pair of nail scissors to help her in forcing out the obstinate cork.
A couple of minutes thereafter the lad Johnnie appeared, with a stout bit of cord in his hand; and he, having affixed that to the head and the tail of the salmon, caught it up, and stood in readiness.
His stout championship of the claims and privileges of Lord Ailine--that was not incompatible with a deeper sense of the cruelty of driving the poor people away from the land of their birth and the home of their childhood?
You wouldn't like, at your next garden party, to have everybody asking you in a whisper, 'Who is the enormously stout gentleman?
Death I laugh at; but a fat death--the death of a stout man who has swallowed the shaving-brush through taking too deep a breath before beginning Exercise 3, that is more than I can bear.
With stout walls, careful work and good material will make this an efficient and durable job.
The floor was plated, the road consisting of stouttimber longitudinals, chairs, and rails (Fig.
Masses of the fleshy tufted seaside goldenrod, now just beginning to throw up its stout flowerstalks, flank a bed of wild asters twenty feet across.
Next, set thickly in a mass representing a stout bush, comes the fleshy beach pea with rosy purple flowers.
But the ingenious Buffalmacco had a better suggestion to offer: "To-morrow we will provide ourselves with a good stout rope and a pulley, and I undertake to give you the same evening a highly diverting exhibition.
Fifty yards away I saw a stout Basuto pony still saddled and bridled, although the saddle was twisted out of its proper position, which was cropping the grass as well as it could with the bit in its mouth.
At the gate, having given some instructions to a very stout young coloured woman who, I took it, was her maid, about a basket of flower roots in the cart, she turned round suddenly and we came face to face with the gate between us.
If you feel lonely, you must tell that stout maid of yours to sleep in your room.
To my surprise I found a stout yellow-wood door within feet of the mouth of the hole.
He could walk now, slowly, with the aid of a stout cane, as far as the field.
But tufts of tall, stout grass along the path served as a help in climbing.
A revolver and stoutcutlass also formed part of their equipment, and a single blanket strapped in front of the saddle carried all their kit.
These consisted of whole trees and stout branches 12 and 15 feet long, felled and placed side by side, with their butts inwards and boughs interlaced, while the twigs and small leaves were stripped off and the boughs sharply pointed.
First of all were stout posts planted in the ground, and the interstices filled up with clay.
He carried no weapon save a stout knobkerrie, and his attendants, who were four splendidly stalwart Zulus, carried the tusk with the greatest ease and dignity.
Next to Brackenbury and his stout fellows came Clarke with his detachment of the 57th, and at the second corner were two 9-pounders excellently placed and guarded by their watchful gunners, eager as greyhounds held back in the leash.
The shields are smaller, and usually woven of stout reeds and then covered with undressed hide.
Major Barrow was there in his workmanlike dress, a Norfolk shirt patched with leather, high untanned boots, and a stout sabre at his side.
Eight feet thickness of earth was placed over the roof of each magazine, while a stout tarpaulin was stretched over the splinter-proofs to guard against the wet.
Mounting it, Penny investigated the fastening, a stout plug of wood.
He was a stout man, expensively dressed, and had a surly, condescending way of speaking to his companion.
A stout post was firmly planted in what was to be the centre, and a number of slighter poles were then placed at equal distances round it.
Immense wagons, laden with hogsheads of sugar and molasses, rattled over the rough pavements as they were drawn by huge oxen, that were steered by stout ropes, which were cruelly passed through their nostrils.
No more," Silas cried quickly as he leaped to aid Hiram, who was struggling with the fellow he had thrust into the room, and verily the Tory was putting up a stout fight.
This was awkward, for Mr Elbraham was stout and his garments tight.
