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  • Gun sales, which were always robust, increased.†   (source)
  • What we want for him is somebody robust …. and upbeat.†   (source)
  • "That was different," he said robustly.†   (source)
  • Either Larry was a coward or he knew that his mother's "honor" was not worth such a robust defense; in my opinion, Mitzy Lish was not worth a defense of any kind.†   (source)
  • This word, unlike the others, was not worn at all, but fresh and robust.†   (source)
  • Stick-thin, alabaster-pale Etienne LeBlanc runs down the rue de Dinan with Madame Ruelle, the baker's wife, on his heels: the least-robust rescue ever assembled.†   (source)
  • Each crew member had two space suits: a flight spacesuit to wear during descent and ascent, and the much bulkier and more robust EVA suit to wear when doing surface operations.†   (source)
  • He was relatively large, robust and impressive, and was fondly dubbed 'Professor.'†   (source)
  • From that day, Lord Randyll ignored Sam, devoting all his time to the younger boy, a fierce, robust child more to his liking.†   (source)
  • "Strangest Hybrid" By the 1960s, scientists joked that HeLa cells were so robust that they could probably survive in sink drains or on doorknobs.†   (source)
  • Now she turned to me—snapping gum, robust and sunny, her jewelry blazing in the strong light.†   (source)
  • Peeta looks healthy to the point of robustness.†   (source)
  • A tall youngish man and two robust looking youngish women.†   (source)
  • A big, robust guy with blond hair and a relatively insolent grin, Shane was supersmart.†   (source)
  • Holmes had an eye for opportunity, and with demand for corpses so robust, opportunity now beckoned.†   (source)
  • He presents virtually no sexual encounters that can be described as healthy, robust meetings of lovers.†   (source)
  • She was short and robust and freckled, and one of her front teeth was crooked, but her eyes were beautiful, blue, like the blue of his mother's best china.†   (source)
  • I could see a little of Dorothy in her face, but, unlike her daughter, she was a big, robust woman.†   (source)
  • He looked up to see a client of his, Frank Noland, a fit and robust man of about sixty, leaning out from a second-story window.†   (source)
  • Monocultures, like a field of corn, are susceptible to infections, but genetically diverse cultures, like a prairie, are extremely robust.†   (source)
  • A salt-of-the-earth kind of woman whose robust friendliness hints at a bracing authority and hardness you might be unwise to question.†   (source)
  • The landlord was a large florid man of such robust and bursting health that he seemed to be having a heart attack even as we looked on.†   (source)
  • A friendship that never circled around into a story, which is why, far more quickly than ever should have happened, Sophie Mol became a Memory, while The Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive.†   (source)
  • In my day, girls were robust, strapping creatures, not twigs like they are nowadays.†   (source)
  • Mr. Rich said it wasn't a high-quality cello, but to my untrained eye it's a masterful work of art, with sensual curves and dark robust wood with a warm honey finish that's smooth to the touch.†   (source)
  • My wife was the picture of robust health in all ways but one.†   (source)
  • Verbal exchanges had always been more robust in Sophie's family than at the more well-to-do home of Mr. Ingebrigtsen, the financial adviser, and his wife.†   (source)
  • His image is to appear as the guardian of robust morality as opposed to the business world, and he is invited pretty regularly to pontificate on television.†   (source)
  • Sister Mary Bernadette was a feisty, robust little Canadian Japanese who spoke both languages fluently.†   (source)
  • The Kansas victim, who followed the preceding five, was a grandfather; his name was Otto Ziegler, he was sixty-two, a robust, friendly fellow, the sort not likely to pass distressed motorists without offering assistance.†   (source)
  • I wrote Winnie two letters about a particularly beautiful tomato plant, how I coaxed it from a tender seedling to a robust plant that produced deep red fruit.†   (source)
  • Of course, it was a robustly stupid thing for Albert to do, too, since teachers lifted their eyebrows with appreciation when handing back his test papers.†   (source)
  • And Meir Katz, the strong man, the most robust of us all, wept.†   (source)
  • In the evening, the drug dealers would set up shop on the stairwell, with a view of the parking lot below, where they would sit smoking pot and drinking beer with pistols in their laps, conducting a robust drug trade in the open.†   (source)
  • She seemed more robust and less timid than Boxwood and Haystack and was evidently doing her best to adapt herself to warren life.†   (source)
  • After one especially robust night of drinking with Will, Istumbled home, crawled up the sidewalk, stabbed my key in the front door, let myself in, and power barfed all over the living room.†   (source)
  • During the intervening thirty-eight years, it had grown into a robust city of over 334,000 people and an industrial, commercial, and cultural center that rivaled the great East Coast cities, such as New York and Boston.†   (source)
  • What remained of the dragon felt more robust than before, but his mind was still closed to outside communication, his consciousness listless and indifferent, as it had been ever since Galbatorix slew his Rider, Oromis.†   (source)
  • The reason there are so many Muslim terrorists, they argued, has little to do with the Koran but a great deal to do with the lack of robust female participation in the economy and society of many Islamic countries.†   (source)
  • They'd only be going down fifteen feet, so it was more than robust enough for the job.†   (source)
  • The human body is robust.†   (source)
  • As time went on, people began to notice that Frodo also showed signs of good 'preservation': outwardly he retained the appearance of a robust and energetic hobbit just out of his tweens.†   (source)
  • He was robust, not thin as I am now and was then …. but his eyes …. it was as if when I looked into his eyes I was standing alone on the edge of the world …. on a windswept ocean beach.†   (source)
  • Still, the exhaustion produced by so much hard work was not enough to suppress his robust and sensual nature.†   (source)
  • When the Germans rode in, I almost stabbed a robust young Oberleutnant to death with a sprig of edelweiss.†   (source)
  • Still, Snow Flower found joy in her second son, who had already grown from a baby into a robust toddler.†   (source)
  • A lady in the row in front of him whom he's known forever turns halfway around after the song and makes a motion-a silent, puckeredlipped "whooaaa"-that's clearly about Cedric's robust singing.†   (source)
  • "You would have got one eventually," I say robustly.†   (source)
  • Besides, he was a Quaker, and though of robust physique, a childhood accident had left him with a stiff right leg and a limp.†   (source)
  • I did not share this attitude with my robust friend, but I kept thoughts on the matter to myself.†   (source)
  • Instead she wrote an immediate and robust reply, full of facts and figures, and copied it to the same people plus, for good measure, a couple of others she knew to be her allies.†   (source)
  • It had belonged to another waterman before he bought it, but it was still lively and robust, like a man who's spent his life on the water.†   (source)
  • Its army was much smaller initially than Rwanda's, which was supported fecklessly by Zaire, to a greater degree by Belgium, and robustly by France.†   (source)
  • John Kennedy's appearance may be robust, but he suffers from a nervous stomach, back pain, and Addison's disease.†   (source)
  • Not the poised, careful smile that didn't make wrinkles, but a full, robust laugh that could nearly be heard.†   (source)
  • I do not speak of the mincing, effete courtesy of these desperate times, but the virile, robust courtesy born in that most violent of times, the Middle Ages.†   (source)
  • I prefer to think of him always in his study by a robust fire, his pipe in one hand, a twinkle in his eye and a fantastic tale at the ready to entertain all.†   (source)
  • "Rub some olive oil on her gums," suggested a robust, rangy man who appeared to be in his seventies.†   (source)
  • King Beorg, a robust man with tousled blond locks, a beard fading to white, and lines of experience etched deeply into his tanned face, stood solemnly at the head table.†   (source)
  • If they ever get some plates that are robust enough, we'll be able to make neutronium.†   (source)
  • " At this juncture my chief seized a particularly robust groundhog skull and began rhythmically clacking its jaws together as if to emphasize his final words: "You, Lieutenant Mowat, have been chosen for this great task!†   (source)
  • How lifelike he had to look, how perfectly, robustly professorial!†   (source)
  • These latter, no matter how frank, have generally a robust tone that says: "We are men.†   (source)
  • He was a tall robust-looking man, usually garbed in a frock coat and a shirt with wing collar and a broad foulard tie.†   (source)
  • Star herself was robust and full of ginger and joy in life; this bloke didn't drink, smoke, chew gum, nor utter an unkind word.†   (source)
  • Well, I think that's a good thing," the general said robustly.†   (source)
  • The man, in his late fifties, was an American icon, well loved, robust, and incalculably wealthy.†   (source)
  • Preparations for the fair kept its economy robust, if artificially so.†   (source)
  • Also, we're sending food, which is pretty robust.†   (source)
  • The wine he'd dribbled down his front had been a robust red, judging from the color of the spots.†   (source)
  • Jaime was tall, robust, timid, and studious.†   (source)
  • 'Why don't we knock his goddam brains out?' he suggested with robust enthusiasm to the others.†   (source)
  • Metro-Tech High, another school in West Phoenix, offered a more robust program.†   (source)
  • She would not risk it; Tommen had never been as robust as Jaffrey.†   (source)
  • Grandison had seemed a pleasant fellow, less querulous than Estermont and more robust than Rosby.†   (source)
  • But in those days they were still two robust youngsters eager to enjoy life's pleasures.†   (source)
  • "So that Peverell bloke who's buried in Godric's Hollow," he said hastily, trying to sound robustly sane, "you don't know anything about him, then?"†   (source)
  • My worst problem, though, was my chest: the dry hack I'd picked up weeks earlier in Lobuie had gotten so bad that I'd torn some thoracic cartilage during an especially robust bout of coughing at Camp Three.†   (source)
  • Baphomet also appeared in group photographs when some joker raised two fingers behind a friend's head in the V-symbol of horns; certainly few of the pranksters realized their mocking gesture was in fact advertising their victim's robust sperm count.†   (source)
  • Although being smart and sensitive made his extended time in solitary confinement especially destructive, he had managed to educate himself, read hundreds of books, and write poetry and short stories that reflected an eager, robust intellect.†   (source)
  • Adams-a small, Pugnacious Texan who'd gotten rich selling bonds during the boomIng 1980s-is an experienced airplane pilot who'd spent many hours gazing down on the tops of clouds; later he told me that he recognized these innocent-looking puffs of water vapor to be the crowns of robust thunderheads immediately after reaching the top.†   (source)
  • The guru of gore: I've seen a man in an accident with his eyeball swinging on the end of a nerve, like a yo-yo) slowly faded, the Loss of Sophie Mol grew robust and alive.†   (source)
  • Vanger poured a robust red wine.†   (source)
  • Animals will sometimes recover from swainsonine poisoning after they stop eating locoweed, but only if they are in fairly robust condition to begin with.†   (source)
  • Jenny was on a single-minded quest to nurse him to robust health, and he seemed equally intent on foiling her.†   (source)
  • He was larger and more robust than Platt, with unBarbour like hair of a darker, cardboard-colored blond and a very unBarbour like smile on him as well—eager and bright with no irony about it.†   (source)
  • The crypt's low ceiling and soft uplighting accentuated the robust girth of the forty Doric columns required to support the vast stone floor directly overhead.†   (source)
  • Being robust, just as you wanted.†   (source)
  • 'Course not,' said Ron robustly.†   (source)
  • That dog was a gruesome Afghan reminder of my own robust chocolate Labrador, Emma, back home on the ranch, always bursting with health and joy.†   (source)
  • "Guarded by sentries and high barriers from unsought contact with all beyond, great gangs of us, healthy, robust men, live and labor in a marvelous artificial world," he wrote.†   (source)
  • Meha had given Bump his name as well, but Lump's little brother had been born in his proper time, big and red and robust, sucking greedily at Mother's teats.†   (source)
  • Jon built a cookfire, claimed a small cask of Mormont's favorite robust red from stores, and poured it into a kettle.†   (source)
  • The two sisters, Ginny and Patty, who looked utterly unlike sisters, for Ginny was pale and delicate, almost transparent, and Patty was dark and robust.†   (source)
  • Admirers saw strength of mind in the high, bald forehead, strength of character in the "robust" neck, unshakable serenity in the slight smile.†   (source)
  • The Rosbys had never been robust.†   (source)
  • Robust, I'm surprised.†   (source)
  • Reliant would make a robust profit on any unit, but more than that, the telepresence technology was part of an overall Reliant juggernaut of baseline telecom abilities, the ability to wire an entire city, and on the higher end, this kind of astonishment.†   (source)
  • Over dinner they put away two bottles of robust Spanish red, and Svensson asked if anyone would like a glass of Tullamore Dew with their dessert.†   (source)
  • …the quiet hum of well-dressed crowds gathering beneath the columns of its churches; then the sudden bloom of sails and the gestures of small crews far out in the river; the abstraction of the walkers along the Battery; the pleasant symmetry of eighteenth-century houses clustered along the narrow feminine streets; bells over the city; the shrill robust games of happy children and the healthy glow of those children; the movement of freighters into the harbor after trans-Atlantic voyages.†   (source)
  • As always, Barbara and Cedric are regular attendees at Scripture Cathedral, which continues to be led by Bishop Long, as robust and wild-eyed as ever.†   (source)
  • In the last ten years he had grown soft and fleshy, he knew, but when he'd been younger Merrett had been almost as robust as Ser Hosteen, his eldest full brother, who was commonly regarded as the strongest of Lord Walder Frey's brood.†   (source)
  • Two extremely robust citizens shook hands with blond Irene Nesser, who spoke with a sprightly Norwegian accent.†   (source)
  • And there was one man of whom Perry had grown especially aware, a robust, upright gentleman with hair like a gray-and-silver skullcap; his face, filled out, firm-jawed, was somewhat cantankerous in repose, the mouth down-curved, the eyes downcast as though in mirthless reverie-a picture of unsparing sternness.†   (source)
  • It was the soil, so fresh, so robust, so much better quality than Chinese soil; Chinese soil having been prevailed upon for too many thousands of years.†   (source)
  • As Raghuram Rajan and Arvind Subramanian put it in a 2008 article in The Review of Economics and Statistics: We find little robust evidence of a positive (or negative) relationship between aid inflows into a country and its economic growth.†   (source)
  • Adams would describe Stephens, a robust man who had never been ill, as "almost shaken to pieces" by fever, "reduced almost to a shadow."†   (source)
  • The loud boasts of swarthy southerners and robust mountain men trading fanciful tales of love and battle in one of the many taverns echoed on nearly every street corner.†   (source)
  • At dinner we talked about things, about their schools and sports, and I took pleasure in all this effortless youth, rude youth in the best sense, robust and vigorous and unfinished.†   (source)
  • I wondered vaguely, as the hours passed, as the smoke of the cafe grew thicker and the faded curtain of the little lamplit stage rose and fell, and robust women sang there, the light glittering on their paste jewels, their rich, soft voices often plaintive, exquisitely sad-I wondered vaguely what it would be to feel this loss, this outrage, and be justified in it, be deserving of sympathy, of solace.†   (source)
  • He really wasn't fat, just robust.†   (source)
  • The chosen ones are not robust, and their quick years upon the earth are few, for every song must have its balance.†   (source)
  • Lilly's son is larger and more robust.†   (source)
  • A frail schoolboy still crouched inside the Director's pudgy corpus and this lonely crypto-child came to robust life in the presence of show people and other living icons—child stars, ballplayers, prizefighters, even Hollywood horses and dogs.†   (source)
  • Sea Devil 3, their ROV, was a work of art with robust capabilities and had amassed the second-highest number of mission points.†   (source)
  • Callers came and went, one of whom warmed his "friendly heart" as perhaps no one else could have—Captain Samuel Tucker of Marblehead, commander of the Boston on the voyage of 1778, who was now in his sixties and retired from the sea, but robust still and as salty a talker as ever.†   (source)
  • The stove worked perfectly, with a strong, robust blaze that could be raised or lowered by turning the tap Orr had finally finished repairing.†   (source)
  • The stable had been burnt, she learned from a boy by the docks, but the woman who'd owned it was still trading behind the sept. Arya found her easily; a big, robust woman with a good horsey smell to her.†   (source)
  • "He had the appearance of a strong constitution," Adams would write of the twenty-four-year-old Louis XVI, who was indeed kindhearted and robust, if painfully nearsighted and awkward, and who had it in his power to determine the fate of the United States of America.†   (source)
  • And not robust.†   (source)
  • Gilly's boy was older, Dalla's more robust, but they were close enough in age and size so that no one who did not know them well would be able to easily tell one from the other.†   (source)
  • Besides, he was beginning to like Blanca, now that she was more robust and had acquired that languor that was smoothing away her rough, peasanty edges.†   (source)
  • Luciana was touched by Nately's forlorn air, but broke loudly into robust laughter again the moment she stepped outside into the sunny street with Yossarian and heard Hungry Joe beseeching them from the window to come back and take their clothes off, because he really was a photographer from Life magazine.†   (source)
  • Jack was greatly given to robust jokes that Esther hated and Klara kind of liked, the kind of joke you're supposed to like in spite of yourself, outdated stones with stupid stereotypes and a range of dialects, but sly in the manner in which they welcome the listener's complicity—Jack told jokes in which nothing ever changes.†   (source)
  • In those days, the Candidate was a robust young man with the angular face of a hunting dog, who shouted impassioned speeches over the hissing and heckling of the landowners, and the silent fury of the peasants.†   (source)
  • The others had to scramble for seats: Lord Mace Tyrell, a heavy, robust man with curling brown hair and a spade-shaped beard well salted with white; Paxter Redwyne of the Arbor, stoop-shouldered and thin, his bald head fringed by tufts of orange hair; Mathis Rowan, Lord of Goldengrove, clean-shaven, stout, and sweating; the High Septon, a frail man with wispy white chin hair Too many strange faces, Tyrion thought, too many new players.†   (source)
  • Eivery time she stood beside him, he grabbed at her, confusing her, in his invalid's disturbed state of mind, with the robust peasant women who in his early days had served him in both kitchen and bed.†   (source)
  • In a rage, Trueba sometimes reverted to his former sins, rolling with some robust peasant woman in the tall rushes of the river-bank while Clara stayed behind with the children in the city and he had to tend to the hacienda in the country, but instead of relieving him these episodes only left a bitter taste in his mouth.†   (source)
  • Robust.†   (source)
  • Blackstock, a robust, handsome, gracefully balding man in his middle fifties, was one of God's blessed whose destiny had led him from the stony poverty of a shtetl in Russian Poland to the most sublime satisfactions that American materialistic success could offer.†   (source)
  • The mind grows rings; the identity becomes robust; pain is absorbed in growth.†   (source)
  • He was really more robust now than he had ever been.†   (source)
  • This wasn't good enough for Mr. Magnus, with the long gray threads of baldness on his robust head.†   (source)
  • But Wang Lung stared at her, robust and unbelieving.†   (source)
  • He had a robust constitution and, as yet, wasn't really tired.†   (source)
  • So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust.†   (source)
  • Then, at intervals, he stepped into the other life to encounter Mallinson's impatience, Barnard's heartiness, and Miss Brinklow's robust intention.†   (source)
  • The retiring carrier was a robust country boy of seventeen who had been given better employment at the paper office.†   (source)
  • Then Wang Lung set himself robustly to the soil and he begrudged even the hours he must spend in the house for food and sleep.†   (source)
  • There came into view a robust child of ten or eleven; she had the unmistakable family characteristics, but had them ill-arranged in a frank and chubby plainness; two thick old-fashioned pigtails hung down her back.†   (source)
  • Jane Austen should have laid a wreath upon the grave of Fanny Burney, and George Eliot done homage to the robust shade of Eliza Carter—the valiant old woman who tied a bell to her bedstead in order that she might wake early and learn Greek.†   (source)
  • He named Clytie as he named them all, the one before Clytie and Henry and Judith even, with that same robust and sardonic temerity, naming with his own mouth his own ironic fecundity of dragon's teeth which with the two exceptions were girls.†   (source)
  • And I was robust and in possession of my sex; I mean by that that it wasn't stroking a boy of eight on his new glossy hair, and there was something more to be assumed than that I was a child.†   (source)
  • He was so robust, so strong.†   (source)
  • The next memory—all these colour-and-sound memories hang together at St Ives—was much more robust; it was highly sensual.†   (source)
  • Rieux remembered having read somewhere that the plague spared weak constitutions and chose its victims chiefly among the robust.†   (source)
  • And whereas the wife of the eldest son shrank away when he looked at her and hid her face behind her sleeve, this one laughed out, good humored and robust as she was, and she answered pertly, "Well, and some men like a taste of hot radish, or a bite of red meat."†   (source)
  • And Eugene noted, with the old baffling shame again, as this cheap tableau of self-conscious, robust, and raucously aggressive boyhood was posed, that, for all the mouthing of phrases, the jargon about fair play and sportsmanship, the weaker, at Leonard's, was the legitimate prey of the stronger.†   (source)
  • In this struggle Tarrou's robust shoulders and chest were not his greatest assets; rather, the blood that had spurted under Rieux's needle and, in this blood, that something more vital than the soul, which no human skill can bring to light.†   (source)
  • As a robust, full-blooded man might mount up to a pulpit and then confess his weakness before God, Einhorn, with his feebleness demonstrated for a preliminary, got himself situated to speak of strength, with strength.†   (source)
  • And he heard it above every other voice in his life and he tore off the long robe he wore and he stripped off his velvet shoes and his white stockings and he rolled his trousers to his knees and he stood forth robust and eager and he shouted, "Where is the hoe and where the plow?†   (source)
  • Next he went to the closet to see whether the things were there that Charlotte had given her, the shoes, handbag, dresses, and he missed at once a light coat, handed down by a more robust person, that didn't fit her anyway.†   (source)
  • And Wang Lung rose and tramped about loudly in the middle room and he behaved roughly and he spat upon the floor and acted as a farmer may, because although one side of his heart triumphed in his son's fineness, the other side was robust and scornful of him and this although he knew he was secretly proud of his son, and proud because none who looked at this son could dream that he was but one generation removed from the land itself.†   (source)
  • When O-lan had come to his house it was health to his flesh and he lusted for her robustly as a beast for its mate and he took her and was satisfied and he forgot her and did his work content.†   (source)
  • But going home again alone, having left the two lads, Wang Lung's heart was fit to burst with pride and it seemed to him that among all the lads in the room there were none equal to his two lads for tallness and robustness and bright brown faces.†   (source)
  • Then Wang Lung leaped forward and he fell on his son, lashing him, and although the lad was taller than he, he was stronger from his labor in the fields and from the robustness of his mature body, and he beat the lad until the blood streamed down.†   (source)
  • Wang Lung had come in robustly from the fields and in high humor because the water was off the land and the air dry and warm and because he was pleased with his youngest son that he had gone with him, and he answered, angry at this fresh trouble in his house, "Well, and you are a foolish child to be forever thinking of this.†   (source)
  • And the robustness of the land that was strong in Wang Lung even when he did not know it swelled up in him, and he was careless again of this eldest son as he had been before, and careless of his proper looks, and he called easily of a sudden to Pear Blossom, "Come, my child, and pour out tea again for another son of mine!"†   (source)
  • Philip noticed then that Miss Wilkinson had a robust form and was proud of it.†   (source)
  • And indeed Mercury had stretched himself, very robustly.†   (source)
  • Indeed, she trod the earth lightly, and in her constitution there was little of the robust clay.†   (source)
  • The robust voice, that had come strangely from the thin ranks, was growing rapidly weak.†   (source)
  • There are worse wives than these simple, rosy-mouthed, robust girls of the farm.†   (source)
  • At the doorway they encountered a girl of lithe and robust figure, quick in her movements.†   (source)
  • I had pictured him as a more robust and ruffianly person.†   (source)
  • Lately she had become as robust as any American child.†   (source)
  • You can take Constantinople, you'll be robust enough to bust a whole Prussian regiment.†   (source)
  • You don't seem robust for a golfer and horseman.†   (source)
  • Robust and spare—at least that's the impression I got From him this morning at breakfast.†   (source)
  • I've always been rather serious by nature, with a certain aversion to anything loud or robust.†   (source)
  • Mercury had climbed very robustly, reaching 100 degrees, almost 100.†   (source)
  • His robust aplomb had fascinated the rustics.†   (source)
  • She replied, 'My brother is robust, I am obliged to you.'†   (source)
  • His legs were very robust, but shorter than legs of good proportions should have been.†   (source)
  • He is of a well-knit and compact frame of body, neither robust nor remarkably otherwise.†   (source)
  • I took him to be nearer sixty than fifty, but he was upright, hearty, and robust.†   (source)
  • I should be very sorry to admit that a robust and well-disposed young man need ever despair.†   (source)
  • He was conversing in the Danish language with a tall man, of robust build.†   (source)
  • Morris Townsend listened to this robust logic in silence.†   (source)
  • When Angelo paints even God the Father in human form, mark what robustness is there.†   (source)
  • For a long time, though studying and working patiently, I had accustomed myself to robust exercise.†   (source)
  • He was below the middle height, and robust and agile in figure.†   (source)
  • "You do not think he is ill?" said I. No. He looked robust in body.†   (source)
  • He was genteel, effeminate, graceful, robust, sluggish, ferocious.†   (source)
  • He was intelligent, robust, adroit; he did his best; the master seemed pleased.†   (source)
  • He was half out when six robust fists seized him and dragged him back energetically into the hovel.†   (source)
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