Thickset

Usage examples of stubby.

Then Oeljanov raised his right armthe one which ended in the ugly, stubby maw of a laser-sighted machine guntoward the camera.

This remarkable artefact consisted of an elemental chunk of bedrock, grey and crystalline, carved into a complex geometrical form of curves and angles, incised niches and external buttresses, surmounted at the centre by a stubby vertical prong.

Each had a barbette with a raised edge in the center and the stubby muzzle of a heavy fortress howitzer protruding from it.

And Blinky proudly pulled them a little farther down his short stubby legs.

For a moment Boshy thought his senses were playing up with him, for there in the door entrance stood the identical girl--the same turkey-egg complexion, stubby nose, and her red hair only changed from unkempt to kempt.

Thomas Cadge was darkened with disapproval, he shifted his stubby brier pipe to the other corner of his mouth, edged a little from his seat on the sunny front stoop and, craning his neck around the corner of his house, revealed an unwashed area extending from collarbone to left ear.

She could see the stubby bulk of a chariot ship, the curves of a cog, a fat paddleboat.

Felix Ordinaire took his seat, crossed his stubby legs, bouncing his ankle effeminately and sighed.

It was a flightless cormorant: scruffy and black, a thing of stubby useless wings and oily feathers.

Ford and drove out to the Roger Geis home, red brick with stubby white pillars, some fine old trees.

Noel Gouf lifted back his right foot, and swung it with all the solidiy of his short, stubby frame against the spot indicated.

Stubby wings beating up a stiff breeze, Guss dropped down from the darkness and settled onto the rolling deck.

He was a short thick-set black man, with a boxed musicom over his shoulder and a jazzer held by the grips, its stubby barrel pointed up.

Their feet made distinct thuds as they ran with the stubby, clumping gait of very heavy men Surrounding Leeming, they examined him with the same expressionless stare that lacked surprise, curiosity or any other human trait.

They were huge, flat things with nailless toes--short, stubby toes with webs between them.