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Word: stout (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1881-1881
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...ingeniously constructed defence of jelly and tin combined in certain proportions. Though small and seemingly any thing but robust, it would have been worse than prolepsis - to would have been a terrible anacoluthon - to suppose that his prowess was to be measured by his stature. The fourth of this stout band had the keenest eye and longest head that mortal ever beheld. Clad cap-a-pie in chain armor he surveyed with sweeping glance the whole quadrangle. His single offensive weapon - a sword-cane - he used with such skill and precision that he could transfix an enemy with it every...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXTRACT FROM "THE NEW IVANHOE." | 2/25/1881 | See Source »

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