Literary notes about HEARTY (AI summary)
The adjective "hearty" in literature often conveys a sense of robust energy, genuine warmth, or vigorous fulfillment. Writers use it to describe everything from the unrestrained quality of a laugh that is both wholesome and infectious ([1]) to meals that offer physical and emotional sustenance ([2], [3]). It marks interactions and expressions with authenticity—as seen in hearty welcomes that invite intimacy and camaraderie ([4], [5]) or in candid declarations of approval and robust speech ([6], [7]). At times, "hearty" emphasizes physical robustness and health ([8]), while in other passages it lends an air of unstudied, exuberant enthusiasm to actions and attitudes, evidencing its versatility in evoking fullness of life.
- He broke into a laugh, hearty and wholesome.
— from Martin Eden by Jack London - The milk arrived, and the child producing her little basket, and selecting its best fragments for her grandfather, they made a hearty meal.
— from The Old Curiosity Shop by Charles Dickens - we had brought with us a good stock of venison of which we eat a hearty supper.
— from The Journals of Lewis and Clark, 1804-1806 by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis - I gave her a hearty welcome by embracing her, and made her sit down beside me, and so we drove off.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - I ran up to her, and received a hearty welcome.
— from The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete by Giacomo Casanova - With hearty thanks and best wishes, I remain, "'Your grateful friend and humble servant, "'James Laurence.'"
— from Little Women; Or, Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy by Louisa May Alcott - 'But if they should be good, why not give them hearty praise?' JOHNSON.
— from Boswell's Life of Johnson by James Boswell - I took him to be nearer sixty than fifty, but he was upright, hearty, and robust.
— from Bleak House by Charles Dickens