What is "stouten"

Usage examples of "stouten".

The soul of a nation distrest Is aflame, And heaving with eager unrest In its aim To assert its old prowess, and stouten its chronicled fame!

Will stouten them to stand, And crown a cause which, hold they, bond and free Must advocate enthusiastically.

His body had stoutened, his dress was more slovenly, his air more careless.

His father hiked him through the mountains on hunts that would have stoutened the heart of any man to have kept the pace.

The light, crossed by the snow-flakes, flickers on his unhealthy face and stoutening figure.

My bother Joseph stoutening her rule As the Lieutenant-General of the State.

NAPOLEON Observe that Wellington still labours on, Stoutening his right behind Gomont chateau, But leaves his left and centre as before-- Weaker, if anything.

The surgeon hoisted himself up, a stoutening, bald, middle-aged man, and brushed earth from his trouser legs.

We will try to regard the Indian's pernicious maunderings merely as evidence that during his lifetime the Adversary arranged many sorts of temptations and trials for him, God permitting it for the stoutening of the Aztec's soul.