In many ways he was docile and obedient, but it was always politic not to push him too far; on such occasions the valet was apt to take on a spirit of sturdy independence which his master was compelled to respect.
A massive head, surmounted with a mass of snow-white hair, a patriarchal beard of the same hue, a tall, sturdy figure.
It was a curious pain which he had never felt in his sturdy little legs before in all his wanderings.
But she would not let him out of her arms: all day she nursed and fondled him as if he had been a helpless babe instead of the sturdy little run-away and adventurer he had proved himself to be.
Peggy's sturdy womanly wits were rising from the shock.
But soon the knight, with active spring, O'erturned his hairy foe, And now between their sturdy fists Passed many a bruising blow.
Said Beltane, slow and thoughtful: "There be many outlaws within the green, wild men and sturdy fighters as I've heard.
Hereupon came two sturdy rogues who, lifting the dead betwixt them, bore her to the edge of the silent pool.
But in my place they had set up one Tostig, a sturdy rogue and foul, who ruleth by might of arm and liveth but for plunder--and worse.
And who among them all so merry as Giles o' the Bow at the head of his sturdy archers?
Christina and her sturdy burghers received the messengers with scorn; but the magnates, already more than half inclined to yield, vehemently advocated the proposal.
But the agony was prolonged day after day till the sturdy patriots were eager to have it close.
He was a sturdy figure in a small and tilted Tyrolean felt hat, a figure that had indeed something generally Tyrolean about it.
The other two started and shrank farther back into the shadow of the wall, for the sturdy figure of their runaway principal could indeed be seen shuffling along in the twilight in front, a bag in each hand.
They have not of late had opportunities to test their old supremacy as sea-warriors, but they exhibit all their sturdy characteristics in fighting the sea itself, repelling its ceaseless attempts at invasion.
The steamer was soon besieged by a fleet of long flat boats with sturdy rowers, and into these the passengers were precipitated, and their luggage dropped in after them.
Among the sturdy peasantry and warlike nomads of Palestine and the desert, she might find allies of extreme value in the great task of defending the communications with her Indian Empire.
They present a standard of sturdy and active manhood, which would have delighted the critical eye of Frederick the Great for the formation of his very best regiments.
When the sturdy boy was inside and the door safely shut, he began in his most guileless and persuasive tone: "Would you like to earn a shulling, Geordie?
However, his conscience acquitted him of moral wrong, and his sturdy Scotch independence came to the rescue.
Mr. John Batchelor was a keen critic, a good speaker, a sturdy Nonconformist, and a man of high character and great influence.
Short and sturdy in build, he was always fit for work, and had a long and laborious public life.
My opponent was a worthy, sturdy teetotaler known as Mr. Cory, whose sons still flourish as the great coal merchants of our day.
That it has darker flowers and a more dwarf and sturdy habit may, indeed, be readily seen when the two are side by side.
She had coarsened more than actually changed--her sturdy little figure had lost its litheness in solidity, her round face had thickened and the skin roughened.
Boase knew it and was glad--even his sturdy aloofness and self-reliance would have felt a pang at being called on for decency's sake.
A sturdy character was the doctor, who had fought his way through poverty to a liberal education, and was entering a special study of nervous disorders.
He was a sturdy youth, with no illnesses, save occasional sore throats which left him when he shed his tonsils.
The marge that divides sturdy success From failure grim and gaunt, Is invisible space, but separates Abundance from woe and want.
With strong, sturdy blow, If you yield to him now He will soon lay you low, And when hand and foot Are at his command, You will feel he has grown To a Big Behind Hand.
For the sturdy woodman plied the blade And the forest soon lay low; Then the burning sun and the want of shade Soon shrank my full crystal flow.
Thus, affirmed our sturdy Anglo-Saxon savant, the hereditary tendency, properly understood, is in perfect harmony with the theory of natural selection.
If success in battle had come with a sturdy frame, a stout heart, and a short sword, the Saxon would seldom have failed in war.
