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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

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