| 1. | A stout man came up the gangway. - from My Man Jeeves by P. G. Wodehouse |
| 2. | She was a stout feeble old woman with white hair. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 3. | Then Joe asked would she take a bottle of stout and Mrs. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 4. | In the next, a dozen stout arms were toiling at the wall. - from The Works of Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe |
| 5. | Of gallowglasses and stout kern. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 6. | Lenehan's eyes noted approvingly her stout short muscular body. - from Dubliners by James Joyce |
| 7. | That as Ulysses and stout Diomed. - from The Complete Works of William Shakespeare by William Shakespeare |
| 8. | Miss Abbot turned to divest a stout leg of the necessary ligature. - from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte |
| 9. | The stout sail-boat that had accompanied us began ranging alongside. - from Moby Dick; or The Whale by Herman Melville |