stoutened

It stoutened the heart, stiffened the back, and made men more than men.

A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

It stoutened the heart, stiffened the back, and made men more than men.

A HYPERBOREAN BREW 2010

And indeed the poor girl, whose pregnancy had swelled and stoutened every part of her, even to her face, and the vertical, squared outlines of her cheeks, did distinctly suggest those virgins, so strong and mannish as to seem matrons rather, in whom the Virtues are personified in the Arena Chapel.

Swann's Way 2003

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

Sergeant York And His People

Yet even in war the days of battle are few and the days of trial many, and many a time at reveillé and retreat, on the march and in camp has the sound of the massed pipers stirred our memories and stoutened our hearts to face whatever danger or hardship lay before.

With a Highland Regiment in Mesopotamia 1916—1917 Anonymous

Suffice it, then, that he ruled in Noumaria five years; that he did what was requisite by begetting children in lawful matrimony, and what was expected of him by begetting some others otherwise; and that he stoutened daily, and by and by decided that the young Baroness von Altenburg -- not excepting even her lovely and multifarious precursors, -- was beyond doubt possessed of the brightest eyes in all history.

Gallantry Dizain des Fetes Galantes James Branch Cabell 1918

It stoutened the heart, stiffened the back, and made men more than men.

A Hyperborean Brew 1904

Hugo had stoutened the least bit under his sorrows; he was more masculine, handsomer than ever; his manner did not want his old lordliness, even now.

V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

Trim, smiling, pretty girls, all looking rather like French maids in a play, happily plied their light agreeable tasks; and, in especial, the cheeks of poor Miller (who had stoutened gratifyingly) were observed to blossom like the rose.

V. V.'s Eyes Henry Sydnor Harrison 1905

The look of dumb suffering had stoutened one heart to new courage.

The Wrong Twin Harry Leon Wilson 1903