When each had fully stated his case the Ape announced this sentence: "I do not think you, Wolf, ever lost what you claim; and I do believe you, Fox, to have stolen what you so
stoutly deny."
The act released his physical energies without unfettering his will; his mind was still spellbound, but his powerful body and agile limbs, endowed with a blind, insensate life of their own, resisted
stoutly and well.
Two months ago he would have declared
stoutly that he would never be beholden to his wife's friends; but now he told himself as
stoutly that it was nothing but right and natural that Bessy should go to the Pullets and explain the thing to them; they would hardly let Bessy's furniture be sold, and it might be security to Pullet if he advanced the money,--there would, after all, be no gift or favor in the matter.
Don Quixote was left with a face as full of holes as a sieve and a nose not in very good condition, and greatly vexed that they did not let him finish the battle he had been so
stoutly fighting with that villain of an enchanter.
"Oh!" said Lydia
stoutly, "I am not afraid; for though I AM the youngest, I'm the tallest."
Because I want you to promise me that you will lie
stoutly to your wife about Sylvia Joy.
"They oughtn't to be afraid to, anyhow," said Felix
stoutly. "I'm going to make a resolution to say just what I think always."
"I have killed the man of God and now I will myself be a man and go into the world," he said
stoutly as he stopped running and walked rap- idly down a road that followed the windings of Wine Creek as it ran through fields and forests into the west.
When he had pulled a mile above the village, he started quartering across and bent himself
stoutly to his work.
"By all the saints!" said he, "you hit full
stoutly. My head hums like a hive of bees on a summer morning."
The Bannecks, however,
stoutly denied having taken these spoils in fight, and persisted in affirming that the outrage had been perpetrated by a Blackfoot band.
Tom was then interrogated who was with him, which Mr Allworthy declared he was resolved to know, acquainting the culprit with the circumstance of the two guns, which had been deposed by the squire and both his servants; but Tom
stoutly persisted in asserting that he was alone; yet, to say the truth, he hesitated a little at first, which would have confirmed Mr Allworthy's belief, had what the squire and his servants said wanted any further confirmation.