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I sat down next to a stout, middle-aged man with owl glasses and a bow tie, and he turned out to be a Fulbright scholar, there in China specifically to study Sino-Soviet relations.
Stout fellow!
And this movie (the second by Faunteroy, director of the equally fragmented Today You Die) has plenty of action (to make up for the lack of logic, perhaps?) and (what seems like) no fight-doubling for the stout sensei.
Claire as a stout Catholic is deeply against the book and tries to convince James not to publish it.
Besides, their lean ambitiousness never really fit within the style of a traditional Russian leader - stout, slow-speaking and slow-moving.
They took a cage with stout barsAnd shut it up inside.
Only he – a muscular nationalist with a 56-inch chest – and his stout band of watchful Chowkidars could keep the country safe from terrorists, infiltrators, “anti-nationals,” and “termites” seeking to hollow out the sturdy structure of the majoritarian Hindu Rashtra, a Hindu nation, that he was building.
Kartasov, a stout bald-headed man, kept glancing round at Anna while trying to pacify his wife.
When he came nearer he saw, sitting beside Oblonsky, a stout handsome young man wearing a Scotch bonnet with long ribbons streaming behind.
He could not hear distinctly because of the stertorous and hoarse breathing of one nobleman near him and the creaking of the stout shoes of another.
The large house with the old family furniture; the old footmen by no means smart, rather shabby, but respectful – evidently former serfs who had remained with their master; the stout, good-natured wife, in a lace cap and Turkish shawl, caressing her pretty granddaughter (a daughter's daughter), the manly young son in the sixth form of the High School, who had just come home and who kissed his father's large hand in greeting; the impressive kindly words and gestures of the host – all this had yesterday awakened Levin's involuntary respect and sympathy.
Following those two a whole crowd of landowners surrounding a stout General, hastily approached Levin.
Just then, Mouque, the father, entered, a short, bald, worn-out looking man, but still stout, which is rare in an old miner of fifty.
Short and stout like his father, he had the impudent face of a fellow who devours everything without care for the morrow.
But a stout man of thirty-eight, with a round shaven face and a good-natured smile, now appeared.
She was short and stout, about fifty-eight years of age, and retained a broad, surprised, dollish face beneath the dazzling whiteness of her hair.
He was a stout, cold, polite man, and he prided himself on never changing his mind.
Near the fire, with his elbows on the table and his nose in his plate, Bouteloup, a broad stout placid man, still young for thirty-five, was finishing the remains of his boiled beef, while standing in front of him, little Achille, Philoméne's first-born, who was already in his third year, was looking at him in the silent, supplicating way of a gluttonous animal.
At first she seemed consoled by the great quiet, soothed by the flat monotony of the immense plain; she buried herself in it as a woman who has done with the world; she affected a dead heart, so detached from life that she did not even mind growing stout.
His legs, in blue stockings, looked out from beneath yellow trousers, drawn tight by braces, He wore stout, ill-cleaned, hob-nailed boots.
The roof is held up by rafters supported on four stout wooden pillars.
BARNAVEWhile he was replacing its ordinary furniture in the room that M. de La Mole had occupied, Julien found a piece of stout paper, folded twice across.
'What a scandal,' said a stout man on Julien's left: 'a house for which I'ld have given, myself, eight hundred francs as a factory, and then it would have been a bargain.''Bah!' replied a young Liberal manufacturer, 'isn't M. de Saint-Giraud one of the _Congregation_?
Finally, as he came again to the Hotel des Ambassadeurs, his roving gaze met that of a stout woman, still reasonably young, with a high complexion, a happy and gay expression.
'Lord, how nice you look like that, M. l'abbe Sorel,' said the stout woman, when he came down to the kitchen.
'The first is hidden in a stout Protestant Bible which last night's mail has carried far from here.'
He was short and stout, with a high complexion and a gleaming eye devoid of any expression beyond the savage glare of a wild boar.
The strange appearance of the town increased their terror, and did not leave even Fouque's stout heart unmoved.
When K. happened to turn round he also saw a tall, stout candle attached to a column not far behind him.
The wind still blew in his direction, and before we reached the end of the street he was laying himself out at the rate of nearly four miles an hour, leaving the cripples and stout old ladies simply nowhere.
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