How To Use Stout In A Sentence

The carbonation is a little heavier than what I normally expect in a stout, but not unpleasantly so. Miasmatic Review
He used a specially-arranged series of interviews during the Commonwealth summit yesterday to mount a stout defence of his position.
And, despite some stout defence, a feature of York's game this season, they were unable to prevent scrum half Duffy from scoring from short range.
Having neither opium nor hashish on hand, and being desirous of filling his brain with twilight, he had had recourse to that fearful mixture of brandy, stout, absinthe, which produces the most terrible of lethargies. Les Miserables
For example, pilsner is one of the most popular lagers, while porter and stout are examples of ales.

He opened a stout wooden door. Times, Sunday Times
Suitable shelters can be made from fine plastic mesh or netting stretched between stout wooden posts. Times, Sunday Times
As Valentine's Day approaches each year he stoutly proclaims his disdain for this "faux holiday, this commercial invention by some ad man or company created for the sake of making a few bucks, selling silly, heart-shaped cards, bouquets and chocolates. Jamie Schler: Valentine's Day Flourless Chocolate Truffle Torte
Legs stout, rather short; tibiæ pilose; fore tibiæ very short; posterior tibiæ very broad, especially the middle pair. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
He put up a stout defence in court.
Port, red wine and stout beer are the worst culprits. The Sun
The stout concrete walls surrounding the dockyard effectively shielded the proceedings from view. Titanic - Destination disaster
The Squamscott River Wetlands Component boasts four rare plants: the marsh elder, the stout bulrush, the small spike-rush and the exserted knotweed. Great Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve, New Hampshire
FLYFISHING King salmon (chinooks) require stout fly tackle — 9 - to 10-weight rods with sinking-tip lines, heavy leaders, and large, gaudy flies. How to Plan A Fishing Trip to Alaska
When the great US sportswriter George Plimpton told Muhammad Ali's trainer Angelo Dundee that the Italian heavyweight Primo Carnera used to wrap a stout rubber band round his member at night to prevent arousal, Dundee laughed scornfully. Sportsmen and their women: history's great divide
Creed, as we know, does not possess the stoutest of spirits.
To protect shrubs, erect a windbreak by inserting stout canes round the plant and then fixing several layers of hessian or netting to them.
Although there was stout opposition, the king's men stormed the town and history records that they used the alleyways to reach the town centre where there was some stiff fighting.
-- But then they are not charged for seeing the lamps; there is no charge for walking round the walks; there is no charge for looking at the cosmoramic pictures; there is no charge for casting a glance at the orchestra; there is no charge for staring at the other people; there is no charge for bowing or talking to an acquaintance, if you meet one -- all these are gratis; and if you neither eat nor drink, there is no charge for witnessing those who do mangle the long-murdered honours of the coop, and gulp down the most renovating of liquors, be they hale or stout, vite vine, red port, or rack punch. The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 321, July 5, 1828
Mascots are some of the most noble, dedicated, and stout-hearted performers.
Two- and three-rail fences are nice landscape separators, while the taller four- and five-rail versions make a stout fence for animals.
I went in, and found there a stoutish, middle – aged person, in a brown surtout and black tights and shoes, with no more hair upon his head (which was a large one, and very shining) than there is upon an egg, and with a very extensive face, which he turned full upon me. David Copperfield
Nay, was not the "Araucana," which Spain acknowledges as its epic, written without even the aid of paper; on scraps of leather, as the stout fighter and voyager snatched any moment from that wild warfare? The Best of the World's Classics, Vol. V (of X) - Great Britain and Ireland III
A lot of those heavier beers - porters, stouts, bocks and such - are available year round from many brewers.
The screams of the wounded and dying were something to instil fear into the stoutest heart.
When walking in the mountains be sure to wear stout boots with a good grip.
Ahmad the Abortion had made known the place, Ali laid hold of him and would have taken the dinar from him, but could not; so he said to him, Go: thou deservest largesse for thou art a sharp fellow, whole of wit and stout of heart. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
SCAPIGERUM D. C.: but that ought to have no aristae to the achenium: here the awns are very stout in proportion to the size of the capitulum.] 1ST MARCH. — Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
Fight for the bishops, says a priest, with his gown and rochet — Stand stout for the Kirk, cries a minister, in a A Legend of Montrose
Pilot Cloth is a coarse, heavy, stout twilled woolen that is heavily napped and navy blue.
Covered with eye images and other biomorphic motifs (that frequently recall eccentric abstractionists such as Myron Stout and Nicholas Krushenick), these unreal botanical specimens exhibit a delightful variety.
In the literature of the eighteenth century the warrant is inseparably associated with the short, incurvated service sword commonly known as the cutlass or hanger; but in the press-gang prints of the period the gangsmen are generally armed with stout clubs answering to Smollett's The Press-Gang Afloat and Ashore
A stout tailwind was giving a friendly boost.
The fixing of these strips will entail a certain amount of carpentry, and in addition to bradawl, screwdriver, and footrule you will need a hard pencil and a carpenter's square, as well as some stout iron screws one inch long. The Book-Hunter at Home
Everyone in the crowd gasped and Miss Moss fell over in a dead faint with poor little Mr. Goodman to catch her stout figure.
Brooker, a stout and flabby man, with pouches under biliously tinged eyes, bowed and broke into a violent perspiration, not wholly due to the shiny black frock-coat suit of broadcloth donned for the occasion. The Dop Doctor
He was stout, well past middle age, and his round cheeks were pink in the winter air as though they had just been shaved.
I fully enjoyed sampling a variety of beer from European Pilsners to stouts.
The primary, stout capillitial branches arise from the upper part of the columella, dichotomously branching into flexuose threads.
Gingham is a lightweight, washable, stout fabric that is woven in checks, plaids or stripes.
He walked along the dirt path with a gray cat, hooded in a brown cloak and carrying a stout walking stick.
Theda was therefore acutely conscious of one gentleman, rather stout and red of face.
It was lavishly furnished, and behind its wide oak desk, sat a burly and stout man.
They dashed through the entrance, nearly trampling the stout guard in the process.
There were neither lifeboats nor mortar-apparatus in those days, but there were the same willing hearts and stout arms then as now, and in a marvellously short space of time, hundreds of the able-bodied men of the town, gentle and semple, were assembled on these wild cliffs, with torches, rope, &c.; in short, with all the appliances for saving life that the philanthropy of the times had invented or discovered. The Lighthouse
Indeed, it's almost certainly no exaggeration to suggest that some foolhardy bar-stool all-rounder with a few too many stouts on board has already claimed in all sincerity to understand the complexities of the Duckworth-Lewis method. Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
Under English rule the great object of the police is to take the "amok" runner alive, and have him tried like an ordinary criminal for murder; and if he can be brought to bay, as he sometimes is, they succeed in pinning him to the wall by means of such a stout two-pronged fork as I saw kept for the purpose in Malacca. The Golden Chersonese and the Way Thither
Once, this was a stout ship, with oak futtocks and floor timbers, fastened with iron nails, built with saw and adz and the calloused hands of shipwrights now long dead. Md. center studies ship's remains found at World Trade Center site
They were trained by handspikes with the aid of side-tackle and their recoil was limited by a stout rope, called the breeching, the ends of which were secured to the sides of the ship. Marvels of Modern Science
It seemed harsh and Wise mounted a stout defence. The Sun
She was accompanied by an equally red-faced and only slightly less stout younger woman, similarly attired. IN LOVE AND WAR
In Wednesday's budget, he is expected to slash the duty that breweries have to pay on ale, beer and stout.
He has an inclination to stoutness / to be fat.
Forbearing to engage in the open field, where the gain would lie wholly with the enemy, he lay stoutly embattled on ground where the citizens must reap advantage; since, as he doggedly persisted, to march out meant to be surrounded on every side; whereas to stand at bay where every defile gave a coign of vantage, would give him mastery complete. 46 Agesilaus
He was a short, stout man who had long ago lost most of his hair and now had to keep his thick bifocals on a string around his neck or else he'd lose them too.
The racemes consist of many male spikelets with one (rarely two) female spikelets at the base; the rachis is stout above, and the part within the bract enclosing the female spikelet is slender. A Handbook of Some South Indian Grasses
His powerful trunk and huge belly filled the chair and the yellow cattleman's boots were laced half way up the stout legs.
Now Carver Smithton has a paunched belly as stout as the beer that fills it. Hardly Used Tractors
I am sure there are many scores of stout burghers in the town who would have done this day’s dargue as well or better than I. The Fair Maid of Perth
The publican, stout and flushed, was a figure from central casting. Times, Sunday Times
‘The firm which makes them fills the stout canvas covers with kapok, a substance like silky cotton wool.’
She held up one foot and then the other, encased in stout walking shoes which she had begun that morning to break in about the house. CHAPTER XIX
Hans carried a light fowling-piece, while Hendrik's gun was a stout rifle of the kind known as a "yager" -- an excellent gun for large game. The Bush Boys History and Adventures of a Cape Farmer and his Family
At both locations, you can see various types of bamboos, from those as thin as an index finger to stout trunks that are thicker than an arm.
Fuller is a stout purist when it comes to his hillbilly music, and has some serious rules before you can climb up on his stage.
Cider represents a fourth Irish drink, one that is traditional, light and crisp, and appeals to drinkers who might not be interested in stouts, whiskeys, or cream liqueurs.
Calhoun, stoutly and correctly insisted, It is not another Fukushima. Carl Pope: Saved -- in Spite of Ourselves
Just a plain, stout, fozy, sappy burrow-man, keeping a gospel shop, with scarcely so much of a man's parts as will let him fend a blow in the face. John Splendid The Tale of a Poor Gentleman, and the Little Wars of Lorn
You haue bin in Ireland, knowe partlie the Irish con - dition; this is a verie tractable fellowe, and yet of a bardie and stout corage; I am perswaded he is very honest, es - pecially he makes great conscience of his promise and vowe. Collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society
LANCASTER BREWING COMPANY (Lancaster, PA) - Milk Stout. a traditional English style sweet stout; a bold, dark ale bursting with barley dryness & mellowed by hints of chocolate & coffee $4.25 The Clog
a long, smooth stem, which, though it threw off, in the alternate order, numerous branches at least half as stout as itself, preserved its thickness for considerable distances without diminution, -- a common fucoidal characteristic. The Testimony of the Rocks or, Geology in Its Bearings on the Two Theologies, Natural and Revealed
There's even a very basic tortilla soup, which is little more than a stout chicken broth floating with softened tortilla strips.
A word ever circulated between male philtrum very long: If date before 3 times to did not get decided word, so abandon stoutly.
He adds that the 80 or so brews on offer, including bitters, milds, porters, stouts, wheat beers and real lagers, will range in strength between three and eight per cent and alcohol by volume.
Until the past year Mr. Leigh had been the kind of stoutly energetic older man you call _hale, hearty. The Devil's Bedpost
Rather like a stout bicycle inner tube, then. Times, Sunday Times
By her forties she was spectacled, stout and keen on knitting.
A stout tailwind was giving a friendly boost.
The hugely controversial contiguous cull of livestock to combat the foot-and-mouth epidemic was stoutly defended by the Government.
Once your pack is light, why add pounds to each foot with stout walking boots? Times, Sunday Times
A stout semi-caulescent herb, somewhat resembling celery but one of the largest of the cultivated umbellifers. Chapter 8
The most popular of these was a stout little horse, modelled on the animals used to haul timber from the woods. Times, Sunday Times
Despite her stoutness, she suffered from what she called shattered nerves. The Little Lady of the Big House
And in that kind of instance you would need a judiciary that is stout and stoic in the face of differences of opinion with the regime.
The club's success has prompted many football fans to search their atlases for this cobblestoned city in northern Portugal, and to realize that in the flashy, money-soaked world of modern football, there's still room for a team built on old-style discipline, a strong work-rate and stout defense. How Braga Climbed a Mountain
Already he discerned an air of bustle about the house, for Lady Hester's abigail was hurrying up the stairs, accompanied by one of the maids, and the stout housekeeper, pausing only to bob a curtsy to her master as he came out of the parlour, set her foot on the bottom stair and began to puff her way up. Gatlinburg
He cut a glorious calomel pill out of pipeclay, and then we concocted a black-draught of salts and bottled stout, with a little patent boot-polish. Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 1, December 25, 1841
It seemed harsh and Wise mounted a stout defence. The Sun
While Stout eschewed the splashy gestures of expressionism, there is a deep, almost lyrical sensuality not only in his shapes, but in the sumptuous metallic texture of the graphite.
Hellebores, pedate, smooth, of stout substance and dark green colour; the divisions of the leaves are narrow and numerous. Hardy Perennials and Old Fashioned Flowers Describing the Most Desirable Plants, for Borders, Rockeries, and Shrubberies.
That plaguesome Polypheme was Captain Stubbard, begirt with a wife, and endowed with a family almost in excess of benediction, and dancing attendance upon Miss Dolly, too stoutly for his own comfort, in the hope of procuring for his own Penates something to eat and to sit upon. Springhaven
It stoutened the heart, stiffened the back, and made men more than men. A HYPERBOREAN BREW
They were full of admiration for my get-up - which was my usual one of bazaar-ruffler - and Kavanaugh came up to me with absolute tears in his eyes and said I was the stoutest chap alive to stand by him in this. Fiancée
Gloucester's forward power and stout defence gave them a narrow but justified win. Times, Sunday Times
Stutely must needs snatch a kiss from the stout hostess, and got a canakin of ale emptied over his head for his pains. The Adventures of Robin Hood
When Hell-Cat Maggie screeched her battle cry and rushed biting and clawing into the midst of a mass of opposing gangsters, even the most stout-hearted blanched and fled.
And indeed the poor girl, whose pregnancy had swelled and stoutened every part of her, even to her face, and the vertical, squared outlines of her cheeks, did distinctly suggest those virgins, so strong and mannish as to seem matrons rather, in whom the Virtues are personified in the Arena Chapel. Swann's Way
Indeed, it's almost certainly no exaggeration to suggest that some foolhardy bar-stool all-rounder with a few too many stouts on board has already claimed in all sincerity to understand the complexities of the Duckworth-Lewis method. Ireland expected England to hurl abuse in defeat, not throw flowers | Barry Glendenning
Theda was therefore acutely conscious of one gentleman, rather stout and red of face.
You will do better to spend your day here behind stout doors and await my leisure. THE WOLF AND THE DOVE
It might well be called a Doberman in a jar; 'Black and Tan' is the name given to an alcoholic drink comprising of a 'mixture' of ale and stout, or sometimes lager and stout. Word Magazine - Comments
He cut a stout stick to help him walk.
His face has been used to promote numerous products, ranging from Guinness stout to Newbridge watches.
Now that IT appears to have visited that particular New World, more and more stouthearted explorers are itching to move on again -- and client virtualization appears to be a logical destination. Making sense of client virtualization
Beer and stout are also worse than other alcoholic drinks. The Sun
I was expecting at least a stout defence, and probably new evidence that would help buttress his case, but he barely rated a mention in Trevor Mallard's speech, and I will tell the members why.
In deep water the captain steered by means of a prodigious rudder; in the shallows he managed with a long, stout bamboo pole. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
a stouthearted fellow who had an active career in the army
One of the cooks, a stout middle-aged woman whom the others called Johanna, gave him a glance of sympathy. The Hosts of the Air
The door was opened by a stout man in the uniform with a holster on his belt.
Greatly refreshed by this opportune bit and sup, the tired and "droukit" rider cheerfully resumed his way; and it was with a stout heart that, after a certain time, he found Roderick cautiously leading the pony down to the water's edge. Prince Fortunatus
Mrs Blower was the rather stout lady with the glasses and the sensible shoes.
The barkeeper was the only human in the establishment; all of the patrons were stout, broad-faced halflings. Curse of the Shadowmage
She was a wonderful woman, intelligent and stout-hearted.
He adds that the 80 or so brews on offer, including bitters, milds, porters, stouts, wheat beers and real lagers, will range in strength between three and eight per cent and alcohol by volume.
‘Cocktail,’ the paper stated, ‘is a stimulating liquor, composed of spirits of any kind, sugar, water, and bitters - it is vulgarly called a bittered sling and is supposed to be an excellent electioneering potion, inasmuch as it renders the heart stout and bold, at the same time that if fuddles the head.’
Port, red wine and stout beer are the worst culprits. The Sun
Hanley Black's wife, a stout-in-the-middle matron of 45, thinks "It's positively indecent" while her husband "surveyed his wife's criminal shapelessness and voluminousness of ante-diluvian, New England swimming dress with a withering, contemplative eye" and tells her in a sentence never uttered by a human before or since, "You appear as a creature shameful, under a grotesqueness of apparel striving to hide some secret awfulness. “It was the Golden Fleece ready for the shearing.”
The stout concrete walls surrounding the dockyard effectively shielded the proceedings from view. Titanic - Destination disaster
The deckhand was the stoutest person on board, and he bore the octoroon to the deck in an instant, and wrenched the knife from his grasp. Down South or, Yacht Adventure in Florida
The waitress was a short stout woman who spoke broken English.
Its well-muscled body is supported by stoutly boned, short to medium legs that give the cat a low-slung appearance.
She was zaftig, or, as my younger son would call it, stout.
Since they have very coarse fur and stout claws, badger hygiene tends to be an extremely noisy affair.
Around here we're really talking only hillwalking. - a stout pair of boots and a good breakfast, that's all you need. Neurosurgical Intervention For Beginners
He needed a cool head, a stout heart and nerves of steel.
_piffero_, was a man of middle age, stout, vigorous, with a forest of tangled black hair, and dark quick eyes that were fixed steadily on the The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859
He knew that this stout, handsome, competent woman, who could outcurse a British sergeant of marines, had a good and gentle heart. Ishmael
Many meals, especially during special occasions, are served with mauby (a drink made from the bark of a tree), Guinness stout, and Carib and Stag beers.
Suffice it, then, that he ruled in Noumaria five years; that he did what was requisite by begetting children in lawful matrimony, and what was expected of him by begetting some others otherwise; and that he stoutened daily, and by and by decided that the young Baroness von Altenburg -- not excepting even her lovely and multifarious precursors, -- was beyond doubt possessed of the brightest eyes in all history. Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes
He was quite short and stout and had a big head, which was flat at the top and supported by a thick neck full of wrinkles. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
Iowa, is the solidago speciosa, or the showy golden-rod, which sometimes grows five, six or seven feet high in rich soil, with a stout, smooth stem and big, smooth leaves, the lower ones broadly oval and sometimes from four to ten inches long and one to four inches wide. Some Summer Days in Iowa
They use words like waddle when they want to describe how a stout person walks. LOOKING FOR THE SPARK
SCAPIGERUM D. C.: but that ought to have no aristae to the achenium: here the awns are very stout in proportion to the size of the capitulum.] 1ST MARCH. — Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia
They Pakistanis have stoutly denied any association with the hijacking.
I am sure there are many scores of stout burghers in the town who would have done this day's dargue as well or better than I. The Fair Maid of Perth St. Valentine's Day
The trial came off in June of '91, and it's one of the regrets of my life that I was not present, if only to see stout Bertie in the witness-box, squirming under the inquisition of saucy jurors who didn't know their place, unlike the judge and counsel who grovelled to him something servile, and did everything but tote him in and out of court in a palankeen. Watershed
Pirate perch is a stout, dark-colored fish, with a single dorsal fin and ctenoid scales on the head and body. Think Progress » “When I caught a 7.5 pound perch in my lake”
I came armed with a pair of stout histories and a promisingly thick archaeological field-guide.
Any sallies into Ballyhaunis territory by the St. Colman's lads were usually blunted by the bulwark of the stout-hearted Ballyhaunis defence whose confidence and commitment was never once dented on this occasion.
-- I sadly fear these stout old Greeks, having power for the nonce, would, throwing philosophy to the dogs in a moment of paroxysmal indignation, despite physiognomies trained to resemble their own, have these fellows casked up in tubs without lanterns, but with the appropriate "snuffers," fit emblems of their faiths, and dropped far outside Sandy Hook. Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer
a stout unshapely woman
The term farro is broadly used for wheat family members that have a nutty flavor and stout build, including emmer, spelt and einkorn. Get Your Freekeh On
You see, after just one hour my stout old leather shoes had become soaked. Times, Sunday Times
The other, who played the piffero, was a man of middle age, stout, vigorous, with a forest of tangled black hair, and dark quick eyes that were fixed steadily on the Virgin, while he blew and vexed the little brown pipe with rapid runs and nervous fioriture, until great drops of sweat dripped from its round open mouth. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859
The pedler was a very stout person, with a red face, and the bundle which she carried in front of her and propelled first into the room, was of enormous dimensions. The Honorable Miss A Story of an Old-Fashioned Town
For though he knew there would be many a brave onfall and stout bickering, yet, as Sir Lancelot had become the most valiant knight in all the island of Britain, the king had greatly desired that the knight should show how he excelled all the doughty warriors that would come from all parts. King Arthur's Knights The Tales Re-told for Boys & Girls
It might have begun earlier, in the time Seyavi of the campoodie tells of, when antelope ran on the mesa like sheep for numbers, but scarcely any foot-high herb rears itself except from the midst of some stout twigged shrub; larkspur in the coleogyne, and for every spinosa the purpling coils of phacelia. The Land of Little Rain
Upon reaching the unimaginably elegant and tranquil village, our visual senses were overwhelmed by verdant and lush hills, slender young bamboos, stout-aged pines, and two joyous streams.
Some friendly Darnley Islanders were described as stoutly made, with bushy hair; the cartilage between the nostrils cut away; the lobes of the ears split, and stretched “to a good length.” The Life of Captain Matthew Flinders
Then those who "intrude" (thrust, that is) themselves into the fold, who by natural insolence of heart, and stout eloquence of tongue, and fearlessly perseverant self-assertion, obtain hearing and authority with the common crowd. Harvard Classics Volume 28 Essays English and American
And he laid his hand, as Drayton might have said, on that stout bastion, hornwork, ravelin, or demilune, which formed the outworks to the citadel of his purple isle of man. Westward Ho!
He was a tall, stout man with gray hair.
Such ships were robustly built with stout planking secured to massive framing timbers, with a single mast possibly rigged with a square sail.
Higgins, a small stout woman who usually speaks in a booming Irish brogue, nods silently.
Polar bears have a heavy stout body with strong muscular legs and well-developed neck muscles.
The bitter flavour from the mussels goes so well with beer or stout. The Sun
I once saw a young girl from the audience land a smooch on the cheek of a stoutly-built male singer, whose singing was notoriously out of tune.
Even in England, the traditional home of ales, lagers grow bigger and bigger, placing not only ales, but stouts, porters and other brews in the shade.
It differs from the "Matt grass" in that it has a stout, rigid cane-like culm rising three to five feet above ground, long, flat leaves, and spreading pannicle, putting out strong, lateral roots from every joint as soon as the sand reaches it; in the meantime the culm is pushed upward, and is consequently always out of the way of an extraordinary drift of sand. Wilmington, North Carolina. Past, Present and Future. History of Its Harbor, with Detailed Reports of the Work for Improving and Restoring the Same, Now Being Conducted by the U. S. Government. Resources and Advantages as an Entrepot for Western Cities. H
Just to make sure Scotland's unchurched youth is listening, the vehicle will be unveiled and sent on its national tour by Cameron Stout, the famously celibate 2003 winner of Big Brother.
That's an appropriate piece of stout paper to stop the leak in the wastepipe.
The Spanish adopted their usual tactic of forming up their arquebusiers behind a stout fieldwork, and keeping their foot and cavalry in reserve behind these.
The act released his physical energies without unfettering his will; his mind was still spellbound, but his powerful body and agile limbs, endowed with a blind, insensate life of their own, resisted stoutly and well.
The world number one, stout Rod Harrington was pitted against the even stouter hopeful, Ronnie Baxter.
Finally, a word about one of the owners, a stout, dark woman with a sing-songy, somnolescent accent straight from the rancho. Undefined
An occasional benevolent Christian complied with his request to the extent of a dig with a stout boot under the rib; but every now and then, the furibund jarvey apologised to us for the slowness of our course by asking -- "Won't I serve him out when Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845
Finally, different beer styles have their own colour distinctions: golden for Pilsners, amber for most pale ales, black or near-black for stouts and so on.
You see, after just one hour my stout old leather shoes had become soaked. Times, Sunday Times
We have seen the stout resistiveness of the old moral interpretation of history on which Victorian England thrived and made itself great in its own esteem. Trans-national America
The most popular of these was a stout little horse, modelled on the animals used to haul timber from the woods. Times, Sunday Times
Her husband, a tall, stout fellow who probably wrestles alligators for fun, stomps ahead, engrossed in the sports pages of the paper.
And that means fans of the Shrimpers' Stout and Quayside beer have less than a month to swig their final mouthfuls of the favourite tipples.
For her father, however stouthearted and independent in civil and religious principles, was not without that respect for the laird of the land, so deeply imprinted on the Scottish tenantry of the period. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
His dress was a tunic of black serge, which, like those commonly called hussar-cloaks, had an upper part, which covered the arms and fell down on the lower; a small scrip and bottle, which hung at his back, with a stout staff in his hand, completed his equipage. The Monastery
Now he is a giant, his face ruddy... enormously stout. DISRAELI: A Personal History
They gave me what they called a beefsteak pie -- a tough crust and under it some blackish cubes carved out of the muscle of an antediluvian ox-and for this delicious fare and a glass of stout I paid three shillings and odd pence. Afoot in England
SPEAKS GOOD ENGLISH, is remarkably tall and stout made, has a large mark on her right cheek where she has been burnt; she had on her a blue negro cloth jacket and coat, a blue shalloon gown, a red and white cotton handkerchief round her head, a blue and white ditto about her neck, and a pair of men's shoes, and a ditto men's clowded stockings. The Journal of Negro History, Volume 1, January 1916
And the girl was slightly stout, though nothing compared to the servant.
We have spoken of the admirable way in which Mr. Cruikshank has depicted Irish character and Cockney character; English country character is quite as faithfully delineated in the person of the stout porteress and her children, and of the George Cruikshank
Stoute added that he would probably keep the filly running over the same distance.
In some mountain-passes stout native porters carry you pickapack. Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873
The friends of free coinage stoutly asserted that this purchase of silver bullion would not only prevent its depreciation, but would advance its market value, and thus be a gain to the government. Recollections of Forty Years in the House, Senate and Cabinet An Autobiography.
The two teams continued to fight on and both sets of defences dug in deep and contested every ball with stout-hearted blocking, hooking and tackling.
Johnny-B's paternal grandfather had staked out a stout chunk of the Olympic Peninsula and the timberlands around Lake Chelan to become one of the earliest lumber barons of the Pacific Northwest.
Black, with cinereous tomentum and with moderately stout bristles. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society - Vol. 3 Zoology
Peering out at them from her dry, dehumidified office, the stout middle-aged human female pushed back her hydrophobic cap and smiled at her visitors. Drowning World
He was a tall, stout man with gray hair.
Given the stout recoil and the heavy weight of the ammo, this is a very wise idea.
Near the summit grow cycads—stout-trunked, palm-like, cone-bearing trees that evolved in the late Carboniferous, 300 million years ago; they were among the first plants to have both cones and seeds. Birdology
Ministers began to preach sermons against "Ephemera," and one, who too stoutly stood for much of its content, was expelled for heresy.
I hung on to the back of his kilt as he set off in his stout brogues and little protection against the weather other than a sou'wester and a mackintosh.
Time is of small importance when there's a tale to be told, a pint of tar-black stout to be enjoyed and a languid holiday cruising the rivers and lakes of this enchanting isle.
Elton's stout defence of his thesis parallels the tenacity of his beliefs regarding the practice of history.
But now the deer turned to the right and made for a distant thicket, and Lionel saw the young hunter spring from his lagging steed, and, with a stout cord reeled around his arm, dash after the stag afoot, while hounds and hunters panted far behind. Historic Boys Their Endeavours, Their Achievements, and Their Times
Bring down my mackintosh and traveling - cloak, and some stout shoes, though we shall do little walking.
A drink generally means beer, either lager or stout.
A fairly young man, short, comfortably stout, smooth-shaven and with an intelligent face, he seemed a very nice man indeed. The Benefit of the Doubt
Close boarded fences can be made stylish by adding six-foot square panels of stout trellis, supported on posts of tanalised timber, four inches in diameter.
Midweek nightlife includes live singing to a karaoke track by a stout lady with a blonde mullet.

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