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The man who had habitually robbed him of his hire, was a "stout-built, ill-natured man,"

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still

George fled from Kent; he was accompanied by a comrade whose name inadvertently was not recorded; he, however, was described as a dark, round, and full-faced, stout-built man, with bow legs, and bore the appearance of having been used hard and kept down, and in ignorance, &c.

The Underground Railroad A Record of Facts, Authentic Narratives, Letters, &c., Narrating the Hardships, Hair-Breadth Escapes and Death Struggles of the Slaves in Their Efforts for Freedom, As Related by Themselves and Others, or Witnessed by the Author. William Still

They are a stout-built, squat, big-legged hill tribe: the women in regard to shape being exactly like their mates; and as these are decidedly ugly -- somewhat tartarish - looking people, very dirty, and chew pawn to profusion -- they can scarcely be said to form a worthy portion of the gentler sex.

Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries William Griffith

I was next the captain in the mizzentop, and near him was his brother, a stout-built, handsome young fellow, twenty-two years old, as fine a specimen of the English sailor as ever I was shipmate with.

Heroes of the Goodwin Sands Thomas Stanley Treanor

I have a vivid recollection of the stout-built man upon his pony, buying his cattle by the thousand; his calm and composed demeanour was a striking contrast to the noise made by some jobbers at our fairs in even the buying of an old cow.

Cattle and Cattle-breeders William M'Combie

Said boy is stout-built, five feet nine inches high, 31 years old, weighs 170 lbs., and walks very erect, and with

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 1, No. 1, January 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

Said boy is stout-built, five feet nine inches high, 31 years old, weighs 170 lbs., and walks very erect, and with

Among the Pines or, South in Secession Time James R. Gilmore

The _Arzobispo_, though old and clumsy, was a stout-built craft; and so thick was its hide, that the broadsides of the Yankee had done the hull no damage to speak of.

Willis the Pilot Paul Adrien

Seated by the table may generally be seen a stout-built man with large and unattractive features, and upon the whole an ordinary face.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 2, No. 2, August, 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy Various

He is a stout-built man, rather short, with a massive overhanging forehead.

Lands of the Slave and the Free Cuba, the United States, and Canada Henry A. Murray