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The plain is covered with the swarming multitude: bands of stalwart men, broad-chested and muscular, wet with toil, and black as the children of the tropics; troops of youth alas! of both sexes, though neither their raiment nor their language indicates the difference; all are clad in male attire; and oaths that men might shudder at, issue from lips born to breathe words of sweetness.
You came by the four o'clock, if you remember, and there's always a good many passengers by that train." "You don't remember him, then?" "Not to my knowledge, sir." "That's provoking! I want to know, Smithers, whether he has taken a ticket for London since two o'clock to-day. He's a tall, broad-chested young fellow, with a big brown beard. You couldn't well mistake him."
And many of their sermons which I heard more than forty years ago are still fresh in my memory, and continue to exert a happy influence on my heart. William Dawson was a local preacher, a farmer. He was a large, broad-chested, big-headed, strong built man, one of the finest specimens of a well-made, thoroughly developed Englishman I ever saw. And he was full of life.
The old man's figure was tall, erect, broad-chested, and muscular, and his bearing proud and reserved. "I 'm always half expecting to see that old man get up," the Newspaper Man whispered to me, "fold his arms across that great chest of his, and say 'Romanus sum, and then proudly lead his son away." He must have been sixty-five years old or more, though he looked twenty years younger.
The few gas lamps showing up a bit of brick work here and there, appeared in the blackness like penny dips in a range of cellars and the solitary footsteps came on, tramp, tramp. A dock policeman strode into the light on the other side of the gate, very broad-chested and stern. "`Hallo! What's up here?
Immensely broad-chested and muscular, though not tall, he weighed 18 stone: yet in spite of his stoutness, he was exceedingly hardy and active, and a wonderful horseman. His face is very handsome short, aquiline, delicate nose; piercing dark grey eyes; skin tanned to red bronze by exposure to the weather.
The broad-chested, muscular Phillip bowed slightly, as if excusing himself, and submissively and silently stepped over to the next window, and, carefully looking at the Princess, so arranged the curtain that no stray ray should fall on her.
He was a powerful, broad-chested fellow, about thirty, with a heavy, brutal face, great thatched eyebrows, and a hard-set mouth. He could not be less than fifteen stone in weight, and he carried himself like a trained athlete. As he swung along he suddenly caught a glimpse of Spring among the trees, and he at once quickened his pace and sprang over the stile which separated them.
A broad-chested, slow-eyed newcomer spoke deliberately to Belfast during an exhausted lull in the noise: "I wonder any of the mates here are alive yet with such a chap as you on board! I concloode they ain't that bad now, if you had the taming of them, sonny." "Not bad! Not bad!" screamed Belfast. "If it wasn't for us sticking together.... Not bad!
Proud as the lion, broad-chested, bull-eyed, endued with great strength, and outshining all other monarchs in splendour, he looked like another Indra in that royal assemblage. The amiable daughter of Kuntibhoja, of faultless features, beholding Pandu that best of men in that assembly, became very much agitated.
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