Once a great, hulky colored boy, who was the torment of the neighborhood, treated me roughly while I was playing on the street.
"The Promised Land"
Mary Antin
Slow, deliberate, thick-skinned, powerful, hulky, ruminating, fragrant-breathed, when he came to town the spirit and suggestion of all Georgics and Bucolics came with him.
"Birds and Poets"
John Burroughs
Now, just ask yourself how much the better you will be for staying on your farm at the end of four years, when you've got through your money, and let your farm run down, and are in arrears for half your rent; or, perhaps, have got some great hulky fellow for a husband, who swears at you and kicks your children.
"Scenes of Clerical Life"
George Eliot