Sentences with phrase «stout heart»

It is not surprising that 97 % of sales are handled by a listing agent but if you are of stout heart and independent nature, by all means, you should try to sell it yourself.

«For come, tell me, can there be anything more delightful than to see, as it were, here now displayed before us a vast lake of bubbling pitch with a host of snakes and serpents and lizards, and ferocious and terrible creatures of all sorts swimming about in it, while from the middle of the lake there comes a plaintive voice saying: «Knight, whosoever thou art who beholdest this dread lake, if thou wouldst win the prize that lies hidden beneath these dusky waves, prove the valour of thy stout heart and cast thyself into the midst of its dark burning waters, else thou shalt not be worthy to see the mighty wonders contained in the seven castles of the seven Fays that lie beneath this black expanse;» and then the knight, almost ere the awful voice has ceased, without stopping to consider, without pausing to reflect upon the danger to which he is exposing himself, without even relieving himself of the weight of his massive armour, commending himself to God and to his lady, plunges into the midst of the boiling lake, and when he little looks for it, or knows what his fate is to be, he finds himself among flowery meadows, with which the Elysian fields are not to be compared.»

Not exact matches

In fact, it judges such «illusory» thinking as a symptom of weakness which the stout of heart will shun.

As black as the uncaring hearts of the czars of Russia, as rich as their estates, as decadent as their palaces, and big enough for their empire, this imperial stout is nothing if not premium.

He's all nervous energy with a stout honest heart underneath.

The thirty - something sad - sack actor / waiter / suspect / witness, the stout, balding Irish cop with a miserable family life, his tough Latina partner with a heart of gold, the gun - toting teens in baggy jeans — all fail to take more than vague, generic shapes, as if waiting for actors to step in and take over.

WPC Tracy Waterhouse, a big, graceless girl only just off probation, and PC Ken Arkwright, a stout white Yorkshireman with a heart of lard.

After achieving so much success in just over a decade and positively impacting the lives of numerous pet owners and animals, it is clear that the journey the Stouts began when they got a heart - breaking prognosis for their Saint Bernard will end up having a happy ending.

Get ready for a stout - steeped, Toucan - themed experience during your overnight stay at this beer - lover's pilgrimage site, the Guinness Storehouse in the heart of Dublin.

«and sat down to rest with an aking Heart, not SO much for fear of my Life, as for the Loss of my Fortune, though the Thumping of the Ship against the Rocks, and the Sea breaking violently upon us, the Sails fluttering with the Wind, and the ill Government of the Seamen, were enough to shock a stout hearted Man; so that I passed the remaining Part of the Night in melancholly Reflections» Uring made it to Half Moon Caye where he set up a base camp.

I will not dwell upon the matter overlong, but will tell as speedily as may be of how that stout fellow, Robin Hood, died as he had lived, not at court as Earl of Huntingdon, but with bow in hand, his heart in the greenwood, and he himself a right yeoman.»