The young tree grows very slowly for six or seven years, increasing more in stoutness than in height.
"The Pearl of India"
Maturin M. Ballou
Miss Letts always distrusted stoutness in another; it looked like deliberate insult.
"The Golden Scarecrow"
Hugh Walpole
His stoutness was, in a sense, a safeguard in streets where the travelling Englishman, easily recognised, has not always found a welcome.
"The Last Hope"
Henry Seton Merriman