strong-limbed

The strong-limbed young Californians have a look of country people in Boucher.

He was shorter than Gaius by about two inches, brownhaired and strong-limbed.

These strong-limbed and noble youths are the flowers of the Sauvira chivalry.

The strong-limbed crickets set up their thunderous noise, grown gravelly bass with the increasing size of the noise-making organs.

By that time Tom Chist had grown into a strong-limbed, thick-jointed boy of fourteen or fifteen years of age.

Strong-limbed and broad-shouldered, he looked more a sportsman than an artist, though a fastidiousness about his clothes somewhat redressed that impression.

"Her writing is so robust that I unconsciously imagined her to be a Vulcan Amazon, strong-limbed and tall."

He was physically imposing for an Elf, big and strong-limbed, with cat-quick reflexes that belied his size, and a fighter's instincts.

"I was afraid whom I might steal from..." She got down beside Sybel, under a strong-limbed apple tree.

Crow hung the cloak on a peg on the back of the door, then stood there, tall and strong-limbed, in fawn leathers and brown boots.

The one was a brindled bulldog of the largest size, a most formidable and powerful brute; the other a staghound, tawny, deep-chested, and strong-limbed.

She looked like an amazon out of legend, tall and strong-limbed, and as wild as any ancient warrior-woman beneath her prim British exterior, he was certain.

I might have added a disk with the two Prokofiev violin concertos, which I first heard in Oistrakh's strong-limbed, piquant recordings.

They have been led by joyful Reyes, strong-limbed Wright, sharp-jawed Valentín and Beltrán the Unperturbed.

'What are SwedesT When this was interpreted the farmers chuckled, and one man pushed forward a strong-limbed young woman with the fairest blonde hair Timothy had ever seen.

He motioned the guards to surround him more closely, when he saw with affright the dark group we have mentioned, and the strong-limbed and resolute peasants who seemed in attendance upon them.

In the time that one might understandingly read a dozen words the strong-limbed cat could have covered the entire distance and made his kill, yet if Sheeta was quick, quick too was Tarzan.

All colored men are called "boys," even if their heads are white; this boy was five-and-twenty at least, strong-limbed and manly, and had the look of one who never had been cowed by abuse or worn with oppressive labor.

They looked enough like paleolithic Earth-humans, at that point, to have been easily mistaken for them; a young species that had come to be stocky, strong-armed and strong-limbed, the braincase rapidly expanding to handle an environment rich with stimuli.

Like Byron, Shelley, and probably Coleridge, Tennyson looked the poet that he was: "Six feet high, broad-chested, strong-limbed, his face Shakespearian and with deep eyelids, his forehead ample, crowned with dark wavy hair, his head finely poised."

A soldier who saw him in August 1860 said, "In appearance he is all that romance could desire, deep-chested and strong-limbed, with a watchful, earnest expression of countenance, indicative of graver thought and study [than is] common to the aboriginal race."

CHAPTER FIVE IN THIS way only was the power of the local authorities vindicated amongst the great body of strong-limbed foreigners who dug the earth, blasted the rocks, drove the engines for the "progressive and patriotic undertaking."

But as it was . . . Kim looked at the image again, staring, open-mouthed at a portrait of his mother as she might have been: a dark-haired beauty, strong-limbed and voluptuous, full-breasted and a good two ch'i taller than she had been in life.

And all around Beauty saw other slaves being coarsely bathed, and she heard the loud bantering voices of the crude woman in the apron and two other strong-limbed village girls who went at the task, now and then stopping to smack the buttocks of this slave or that for no apparent reason.