Sigh-clout: sieve-cloth. Somers: sumpter horses. Spleen, on the: in anger or discontent. The spleen was once supposed to be the seat of anger and discontent. Spurn: strife, as a kicking against. "That tear began this spurn," that rent began this strife. Stalworthy: stalwart. Stound: space of time.英文原著 · 《A Bundle of Ballads》
Before us was a white-framed house of logs in the porch of which stood two stalwart, good-looking girls. Could we stay all night? We could--there was no hesitation--and straight in we rode.英文原著 · 《A Knight of the Cumberland》
The major didn't know quite what she was talking about. But he acquiesced. All he cared about was to see her grow stronger; and that she was doing every day. She was growing amazingly lovely, too, -- at least the major thought so. Every one looked at her; but that was, perhaps, be- cause she was such a sylph of a woman. Beside the stalwart major, she looked like a fairy princess.英文原著 · 《A Mountain Woman》
But our fathers were stalwart men, with many foes to encounter. If anybody ever needed a grown-up religion, they surely did; and it became them well.英文原著 · 《A New England Girlhood》
Thus deserted on all sides, he stepped into the balcony and lighted a cigar. While he was smoking it, he observed an English gentleman, with a stalwart figure and a beautiful brown beard, standing on the steps of the hotel. "Halloo!" said he, and hailed him. "Hi, Uxmoor! is that you?"英文原著 · 《A Woman-Hater》
You might have trepanned every one of their innocent heads, and found no more than so much coiled fishing-line below their skulls. I do not care for your stalwart fellows in india-rubber stockings breasting up mountain torrents with a salmon rod; but I do dearly love the class of man who plies his unfruitful art, for ever and a day, by still and depopulated waters.英文原著 · 《An Inland Voyage》
Stalwart, ambitious fellow branching out from finance into what we might call national news.美剧 · 《Billions》
Shrek and Donkey, two stalwart friends, off on a whirlwind big-city adventure.电影 · 《Shrek 1 (2001)》