Literary notes about STOCKY (AI summary)
In literature, "stocky" is frequently employed to evoke an image of compact strength and solidity. Characters described as stocky are often depicted with thick necks, broad shoulders, and a robust, low-set physique that underscores their resilience and physical presence [1], [2], [3]. The term isn’t limited to personages alone; it also appears in descriptions of nature and objects, where it emphasizes a sturdy, compact form—a vine with a stocky habit, for instance, might suggest resilience in structure [4], [5]. Overall, "stocky" enriches narrative images by conveying not just shortness in stature but an inherent grounded, powerful quality, whether in the portrayal of a fighter’s build or the dense architecture of a natural form [6], [7].
- A gentleman, with a flavour of "the South" in his speech, very like his well-known pictures; stocky; an effect of not having, in length, much neck.
— from Walking-Stick Papers by Robert Cortes Holliday - Illustrative Case.—L. C., a man, aged fifty-six years, stonemason by trade, is a stocky, thick-necked individual.
— from Arteriosclerosis and Hypertension, with Chapters on Blood Pressure 3rd Edition. by Louis M. (Louis Marshall) Warfield - He was rather stocky as to build, but with good, square military shoulders and small hips.
— from The Gay Cockade by Temple Bailey - nitrate of soda TOMATOES need large supplies of potash and phosphates to induce stocky growth and abundance of flowers and fruit.
— from The Culture of Vegetables and Flowers From Seeds and Roots 16th Edition by Sutton & Sons Ltd. - This great width, joined to the fact of scant extension, gives the canal a stocky aspect, its breadth being but one sixth of its length.
— from Mars and Its Canals by Percival Lowell - He was about five and a half feet in height, I judged, and fairly stocky.
— from The Fire People by Ray Cummings - Kielgaard—big, stocky, expensively dressed—looked up and studied Dan as he came in.
— from Advance Agent by Christopher Anvil
