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Updated: May 25, 2025
Our grandmothers at sixty years were stouter and more capable of endurance than our young women at twenty-five. Why is it so? Simply because our girls and their mothers have neglected to cultivate their physical powers.
Forthwith he applied himself to the task, with such success that, half an hour later, he found himself in possession of what he required. True, it was somewhat stouter than it should have been for his purpose, but this was one of those occasions upon which he found his exceptional strength very useful, and after a few experiments he succeeded in bending it to the shape he wanted.
'Oh, Seraphine, do you really think that I am stouter? the customer would ask feebly, panting in her tightened corset. 'Is it that I think so? Why that jumps to the eyes. Madame had always that little air of Reubens, even in the flower of her youth but now it is a Rubens of the Fabourg du Temple.
See the spread of athletics. We must look to our physique, and make ourselves ready. Those Lancashire operatives, laming and killing each other at football, turning a game into a battle. For the milder of us there's golf an epidemic. Women turn to cricket tennis is too soft and tomorrow they'll be bicycling by the thousand; they must breed a stouter race.
The king, because he was king, must be regal. The nobility must, noblesse oblige, be magnificent, and as for the rest of the people, it did not matter much so long as they worked hard and stayed quiet. There were upheavals, of course, and now and then a slave with a braver heart and a stouter spirit than his companions incited them to rebellion.
"But I have seen him." "Well? What sort of man is he?" "The devil knows him! What have I to do with him?" "Is he like his father?" "He's stouter, plumper; there is more seriousness about him; he is so cold." "Which means that he will be even worse than Yashka. Well, now, my dear, be on your guard or they will suck you dry." "Well, let them do it!" "They'll rob you. You'll become a pauper.
Having once selected this he proceeded straightway to climb over the impeding bundles to reach it from the corner where the ostler had tossed it just before. This, however, proved no slight task. He was burly and heavy, while the bundles were frail and loosely stacked and failed to yield to his feet that amount of support which, of all men, the stouter ones are supposed most to require.
He has exchanged his hour-glass for a gold patent-lever watch, which he carries in his vest-pocket; and as for his scythe, he has either thrown it aside altogether, or converted its handle into a cane not much stouter than a riding-switch.
'That accounts for it! said James. 'I never knew all this! nor why we were so entirely cut off from Mary Ponsonby. I wonder what she is now! She was a droll sturdy child in those days! We used to call her Downright Dunstable! She was almost of the same age as Louis, and a great deal stouter, and used to fight for him and herself too. Has not she been out in Peru?
The Rostovs had not seen him since their arrival. His face looked sad, and he had grown still stouter since Natasha last saw him. He passed up to the front rows, not noticing anyone. Anatole went up to him and began speaking to him, looking at and indicating the Rostovs' box. On seeing Natasha Pierre grew animated and, hastily passing between the rows, came toward their box.
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