He made his way, puffing along on short, stout legs, to one of the temple's many summons gongs.

Solid baulks pegged into equally stout legs form the seat and the no-nonsense trellis is the perfect host for climbers that form a frame for the composition.

The standing figures on both sides of the door feature deformed creatures, with short, stout legs and a grotesque bearded face represent a real Egyptian divinity or semi-divinity, called Bes.

It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary.

The Newfoundland shares many traits with other mastiffs, such as the St. Bernard and English mastiff, including short, stout legs, massive heads with very broad snouts, a thick bull neck, and a very sturdy bone structure.

Some miniature horse breed standards prefer pony characteristics such as short, stout legs and elongated torsos, while others prefer ordinary horse proportions.

A. susanae differs from A. pterygocercus in having stouter legs and pedipalps, among other characters.

Its habitus seems to have been most similar to a small wader - between a Ruddy Turnstone and an Eurasian Dotterel in size maybe - or a buttonquail, but with a ling hind toe, very stout legs, and the enantiornithine beak.

There is a variety derived from Andalusian Hound medium short hair that called Maneto because of their short, stout legs, a phenomenon known in the field of cynology as basset, referring to the Bassets.

Both varieties of this breed are strong and active, with compact bodies and short, stout legs with strong hooves.