Some such plan had lain as a seed in his mind for many years; and now that he had decided, in a flash, to give up his profession, the seed grew in the space of twenty minutes both tall and lusty.
"Night and Day"
Virginia Woolf
He was stout, or, as some term it, lusty; in all probability, therefore, he was advanced in life, some people expanding as they grow old.
"Bracebridge Hall, or The Humorists"
Washington Irving
I therefore returned, and the first object that caught my eye was the bait-a gin, dancing before some admiring spectators; and behind her was a fine, lusty native advancing by great strides, as he considered the graceful movements of his gin were gaining as fast upon the hearts of the white men.
"Journal of an Expedition into the Interior of Tropical Australia In Search of a Route from Sydney to the Gulf of Carpentaria (1848) by Lt. Col. Sir Thomas Livingstone Mitchell Kt. D.C.L. (1792-1855) Surveyor-General of New South Wales"
Thomas Mitchell