Word: stoutly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When Davis completes her talk, admirers approach. "I can't tell you how much you've helped me," says a bespectacled college-age girl. A woman asks her to look over a self-help book she is writing, but Davis declines. "My name is Gunter," announces a stout man with a German accent. "I owe my own recovery to John Bradshaw." He asks Davis to sign a copy of The Way I See It. During her lecture Davis found time to mention a book of hers that will soon be published. "I have a novel coming out," she told...
Contractually quite flexible, Le Pli carries its own sort of caveat: it is only for those who are lithe of thigh and stout of wallet. The most expensive health club in Cambridge, it has both the most beautiful facilities and clientele...
...sAiled the stout ship nansy hans...
...sampled in the galleries outside the palace that are always open to the public and have no queues. Buckingham Palace does contain some great pictures though. Most are from the Netherlands: Rembrandt's ship $ builder, with his sketches of hull sections before him, being handed a note by his stout wife; top-flight Rubenses; and Van Dyck's two portraits of Charles I, especially the "greate peece," which depicts him with his consort and children -- the mobile thin face, shadowed with melancholy, amid the grand, vaporous profusion of light on silk and marble. No later court painter -- at least...
...told the passengers in as lighthearted a way as possible that they were going to have to find their own way from this point on, looked for friendly trees to hit, turned off the ignition and tried to come in level. Unfortunately, I could not see one stout old mango tree." Leakey suffered worse injuries than any of his passengers: shattered bones in both legs and ankles...