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Definition
a person who is loyal to their allegiance (especially in times of revolt);or: having rugged physical strength; inured to fatigue or hardships;
or: dependable;
or: used especially of persons
- "Get back, you fools!" cried the muffled voice of Kemp, and there was a vigorous shoving back of stalwart forms.H.G. Wells -- The Invisible Man
- Huge-headed, huge-chested, stalwart, calm, he was like an enormous case of the finest capacities.Saul Bellow -- The Adventures of Augie March
- Two stalwart girls came down the library steps and out through one of the iron gates.Willa Cather -- O Pioneers!
- Helen and Theresa's voices seemed to perch like sandpipers on the stalwart breakwater that was Old Chao's.Gish Jen -- Typical American
- My husband remained stalwart, though was visibly shaken.Stephen King -- Rose Red
- It was Ritchie, that chat-room stalwart, who had come to my aid in the end.Jojo Moyes -- Me Before You
- Until then, I urge you to be, as always, my stalwart daughter.Gail Carson Levine -- Ella Enchanted
- He banged at the door, and presently the heads of the old man and his two stalwart sons were thrust from windows.Mark Twain -- The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- Alba did not resent his mocking nickname for her; in fact, on more than one occasion she had fantasized about seducing the stalwart professor.Isabel Allende -- The House of Spirits
- Then Polypoites, ' a man who stood his ground in battle, rose, then stalwart, sturdy-hearted Leonteus, then Aias Telamonios and Epeios moved into place.Homer -- The Iliad
- A tall and stalwart man reposes on a couch there.William Makepeace Thackeray -- Vanity Fair
- Just see what they've done over there" (pointing to the two stalwart women).Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- The absentminded, fluff-haired little clergyman and his stalwart wife drifted into her memory.Harper Lee -- Go Set a Watchman
- With war on the horizon, Rowan would face her greatest challenge; she needed stalwart volunteers, not halfhearted conscripts.Henry H. Neff -- The Maelstrom
- It would have needed a very stalwart young woman in 1828 to disregard all those snubs and chidings and promises of prizes.Virginia Woolf -- A Room of One's Own
- "A stalwart boy, Ser Kevan Lannister's son, nephew to Lord Tywin and cousin to the queen.George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
- The latter caught in a glance the dimensions of a very stalwart figure.Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
- If Gondor, Boromir, has been a stalwart tower, we have played another part.J.R.R. Tolkien -- The Fellowship of the Ring
- Henry Knox and Benjamin Lincoln, two stalwarts of 1776 and now of formidable political importance, came to talk.David McCullough -- John Adams
- Troy heard the dull determination in Boldwood's voice, looked at his stalwart frame, then at the thick cudgel he carried in his hand.Thomas Hardy -- Far from the Madding Crowd