Comparatively solid

Usage examples of stockier.

He was about the same height as Aguinaldo but stockier, like his Korean forebears.

As he watched, he saw the stockier one, the more talkative of the two, raise his voice to add to the story being woven by Yeshu and Far-runner.

The leader of the group, taller and stockier than the rest, paused to let the others pass while he watched for any sign of danger.

Although the other attackers had seemed human, the one before him was stockier and smellier than a man.

She could see the long blond hair and coarse beards of Northmen, and thought she knew the stockier bodies of her own Ffolk.

This was my own Constantius, his hairline somewhat higher and his frame stockier than that of the young man who had stolen my heart thirteen years ago, but the honest grey eyes were still the same.

A good many, though, were of the stockier, hook-nosed variety from the island of Alayisa to the east.

The cub was larger than a fox and much stockier, but she could carry him.

But Torrence favored his father, King Danube, in build, and was the stockier of the two.

McFarlane had lost consciousness again by the time Resnick got to his side and all that Mary Duffy could tell him through bruised lips was that one of their attackers had seemed taller than the rest, two or three inches over six foot, and another might have been stockier and shorter than the other two.

Another man, both taller and stockier than the slender Ambassador, dismounted and handed the reins of his charger to a kneeling groom.

Tommy was shorter, stockier, with a black mustache, wearing a cloth cap.

The cop was a little shorter than he was, but also stockier, which helped to equalize things.

Sexing was a simple matter of separating the obviously mammalian females from the stockier males.

Immediately Callie turned to another man, shorter, stockier, but dressed similarly to and standing beside the first, and hugged him.