All 10 Uses
robust
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The Good Earth
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- 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.†
Chpt 15 *robustly = in a strong manner
- 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.†
Chpt 17robustness = strength
- 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.†
Chpt 19robustly = in a strong manner
- 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?†
Chpt 21robust = strong
- But Wang Lung stared at her, robust and unbelieving.†
Chpt 24
- 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.†
Chpt 24robustness = strength
- 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.†
Chpt 28robustly = in a strong manner
- 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.†
Chpt 28robust = strong
- 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."†
Chpt 31
- 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!"†
Chpt 33robustness = strength
Definitions:
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(1)
(robust) strongThe exact meaning of robust can depend upon its context. For example:
- "a robust person" -- strong and healthy
- "a robust system" -- unlikely to fail
- "a robust defense" -- strong and energetic
- "robust flavor" -- strong, rich, and complex
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)