There are also from nine to twelve radial spines one and one-half inches long, while the three or four centrals are larger and stouter than the others, about two and one-half inches long.
The central spines are muchstouter and longer, extending outward, also, and downward, about two inches in length.
There are from one to four spines, all less than an inch long, slender and stiff and brownish or light brownish gray, with one spine longer and stouter than the others, and covered with thin straw-colored sheaths.
This handsome desert species strongly resembles the beautiful Sunset Cactus, but has much stouter and darker central spines.
The central spines are hooked and slender, longer and stouter than the radials, about two inches in length, brown and brown-red.
There are from fifteen to thirty radially placed spines and three to seven stouter central thorns, all of which have yellowish bulbous bases, with red-brown or almost black tips.
And then give this Stanislaus, who did resent, credit for his stouter courage, his more manly spirit.
By no means stalwart-looking, still he swung along with an easy stride and a confident strength that many a stouter man might envy.
I'd have walked up to a gun with a stouter heart than I felt at this terrible moment; and yet there was something in that sidelong glance of angry meaning that actually nailed me to the spot, and I could not have fallen back to save my life.
The feet, seen casually in a company, were apt to be taken for the belongings of some far stouter woman, sitting near.
It was manned by one hundred and fifty of the best sailors of the land of Egypt, who had seen heaven and earth, and whose hearts were stouter than those of the gods.
You have no stouter man-at-arms in all your band, and he has proved that he can be discreet when he chooses, and did me good service in my last expedition.
So be it," says I; "but do prythee await till you feel stouter of heart.
The horns of the bulls sometimes attain a length of 42 inches, but are, as a rule, several inches shorter and a good deal stouter than those of the cows.
The bull was only to be distinguished from the cows by his somewhat heavier build and shorter though stouter horns.
I'm a dale stouter than he is; and sure it would be braver to fight me.
Among the apprentices was one much older and stouter than the others.
An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.
It is a smaller and stouterplant than the common fennel, and is used as a pot herb.
The Sheep are to be distinguished from the Goats by their rather stouter build and by the absence of the beard in the male.
Its build is stouterand clumsier than that of the Rats.
The body of this animal is stouter than that of the next to be described.
Say me, canst covet for thy daughter a mate comelier than myself, and hast ever seen a stouter hearted man or one better fitted for a Sultan or a more glorious in rank and dominion than I?
Bill shorter andstouter than that of the rails, and with a hard shield at the base, that extends on the forehead to the top of the head.
This species has a much stouter bill than the next.
The man's bearing was a stronger argument than his words, for I am sure that a stouter or more reckless blade never swaggered in church or street.
I have him still, but he is stouter and has come down to a motor car.
One very stout lady I knew worked at herself for eighteen months and got stouter every day.
When they were all assembled they numbered five hundred fighting men-- and a stouter or more valiant band never went forth to war.
I walked into the drawing-room: the mother, who had grown stouter and was already getting grey, was creeping about on the floor, cutting out some blue material.
She had grown somewhat stouter of late, and her movements were already a little matronly, a little indolent.
He had been advanced to a position of rank and power--Spain boasted no stouter seaman; and in the attempt on which Alberoni was bent, to upset the Protestant succession in England, Admiral Cammock was a factor of weight.
The gear of course was very much stouter and the boats slower on their helms than they are now, or it could not have been done.
I have been even tempted to fancy that our English Robin is a finer and stouter bird than his continental relations.
The Stone-chat sits upright and almost defiant, and is a shorter and stouter bird than the Whin-chat, which perches in an attitude of greater humility, and always seems to me to deprecate your interference rather than to defy it.
Alps, but it is much less common; it is a larger bird, and its bill, which is long and red, is very different from the shorter and stouter yellow beak of the smaller species.
Had Simon Perkins's heart been no stouter than his slender person, his companion must have died a damp death, and this story would never have been told.
Turning his own body, so as to take advantage of a dim ray from the nearest gaslight, he was aware that the woman, shorter and stouter than Miss Bruce, had muffled herself in a cloak, and was closely veiled.
United States army wall-tents are made from a superior quality of ten-ounce duck, but they are much stouter than is necessary for summer camping.
That edge of the piece which was the bottom of the tent was faced at the corners with a piece of stouter duck three or four inches square.
She tapped the tip of his nose with a long little forefinger, and emphasized every word with a stouter tap.
Though Mark was thin, he had a nervous strength almost equal to that of his stouter companion.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stouter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
