Not only did the stouts flourish in Middletown, but some of them went a little southward, and helped to found the town of Hopewell; and here they increased to such a degree that one of the early historians relates that the Baptist Church there was founded by the stouts, and that for forty-one years the religious meetings were held in the houses of different members of the Stout family, while, at the time he wrote, half of the congregation of the church were still stouts, and that, all in all, there had been at least two hundred members of that name.
"Stories of New Jersey"
Frank Richard Stockton
Starting with the democratic premise that all men are born equal, the ready-to-wear clothier proceeds on the further assumption that each man becomes in time either short, stout, or medium; and this amendment to the Declaration of Independence has indeed created a new republic of shorts, stouts, and mediums, in which Charley Wax is the perpetual president.
"The Perfect Gentleman"
Ralph Bergengren
But unfortunately the shorts, stouts, and mediums are not respectively standard according to bust-measure.
"The Perfect Gentleman"
Ralph Bergengren