I'd love to see him strong and sturdy like other children.
"Marjorie Dean High School Freshman"
Pauline Lester
This, however, was going further than the others considered admissible, and there was a protesting shout, while one sturdy fellow cautiously slid along the wall to get in behind the man who had the axe.
"The Greater Power"
Harold Bindloss W. Herbert Dunton
Thick-set, sturdy, with his shoulders back again now, straight, not bent as they had been.
"Fortitude"
Hugh Walpole