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  • adjective comparative form of stout: more stout

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Examples

  • They just about froze that winter because General Hampton had somehow gotten the notion that his men ought to spend the cold months in tents instead of building any kind of stouter winter buildings.

    Fateful Journeys Gary E. Parker 2005

  • 'Ah dear me the poor old room,' said Flora, glancing round, 'looks just as ever Mrs Clennam I am touched to see except for being smokier which was to be expected with time and which we must all expect and reconcile ourselves to being whether we like it or not as I am sure I have had to do myself if not exactly smokier dreadfully stouter which is the same or worse, to think of the days when papa used to bring me here the least of girls a perfect mass of chilblains to be stuck upon a chair with my feet on the rails and stare at Arthur -- pray excuse me -- Mr Clennam -- the least of boys in the frightfullest of frills and jackets ere yet Mr

    Little Dorrit Charles Dickens 1841

  • Even getting older and stouter, they fit like puzzle pieces.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • Wait until the slab rams into a larger, stouter one and skip to safety?

    Bucks on Ice! 2009

  • The Patriots offensive line is much stouter than the one the Giants pummeled and pummeled some more en route to knocking around Brady in Super Bowl XLII.

    ...And Here Are the Five Questions the Patriots Must Answer Aditi Kinkhabwala 2012

  • This Gregoire buck has shorter but stouter beams and a smaller spread.

    Is This Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin Buck the New World Record Typical Whitetail? 2009

  • You shouldnt have a problem, if you do think you need something stouter check out Buffalo Bores ammo.

    Buffalo with a .45-70 2009

  • The houses were bungalows, substantial, pleasing to the eye, each set in the midst of gardens where stouter blooms, including roses, were out and smiling at the threat of late frost.

    CHAPTER II 2010

  • You shouldnt have a problem, if you do think you need something stouter check out Buffalo Bores ammo.

    Buffalo with a .45-70 2009

  • This Gregoire buck has shorter but stouter beams and a smaller spread.

    Is This Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin Buck the New World Record Typical Whitetail? 2009

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