well-limbed

A fine strapping Bona Roba, in the Charters-taste, but well-limbed, clear-complexioned, and Turkish-eyed; thou the first man with her, or made to believe so, which is the same thing; how will thy frosty face be illuminated by it!

Clarissa Harlowe 2006

She 's tol'able strong and well-limbed for her age, "added that lady, feeling of the child's arms and limbs;" her flesh is solid.

Oldtown Folks 1869

He was a good, growing, well-limbed, comfortably disposed animal, reasonably docile, and capable, under fair government, of being made to go exactly in any paths his elders chose to mark out for him.

Oldtown Folks 1869

The men were tall, strong, well-limbed, and finely shaped.

The Cannibal Islands Captain Cook's Adventure in the South Seas 1859

Cingalese are generally a compactly built and well-limbed race, while the Malabar is a man averaging full a stone lighter weight.

Eight Years' Wanderings in Ceylon Samuel White Baker 1857

They are a tall, well-limbed people, very brave in war, and as much respected in the South, as the Iroquois are in the North part of America.

Biographical Memorials of James Oglethorpe Harris, Thaddeus M 1838

A more clean, smart, active, well-limbed set of lads never "did dance" upon the deck of the famed "Belle Poule" in the days of her memorable combat with the "Saucy Arethusa."

The Second Funeral of Napoleon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

I heard the people, a well-limbed brawny race of men, with red hair and beards, talking to each other in Gaelic, and saw through the fogs only a glimpse of the sides of the mountains and crags which surrounded the village.

Letters of a Traveller Notes of Things Seen in Europe and America William Cullen Bryant 1836

Instead of being meagre, they are compactly built, with good busts, inclining to be full, and well-limbed, as any one may see who will take the trouble to walk the streets after a hard shower; for, as Falstaff told Prince Henry, "You are straight enough in the shoulders; you care not who sees your back."

Recollections of Europe James Fenimore Cooper 1820

The retreat was thought to be quite in rule, and though prudence forbade pursuit, able and well-limbed scouts were sent on their trail, as well to prevent a renewal of the surprise, as to enable the forces of the Colony to know the tribe of their enemies, and the direction which they had taken.

The Wept of Wish-Ton-Wish James Fenimore Cooper 1820