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a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 944 [Arrows] stronge peynted [read poynted] euerychoon.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. l. 1252 A rial chef cite..Strong wallid & toured rounde aboute.

a1529 J. Skelton Why come ye nat to Courte (?1545) sig. A.vii^v He calleth vs England men Stronge herted lyke an hen.

1532 G. Hervet tr. Xenophon Treat. House Holde f. 16^v Housbandry maketh a man stronge bodied.

1598 J. Marston Certaine Satyres in Metamorph. Pigmalions Image 72 Strong backt Hercules in one poore night..In strength of lust and Venus surquedry Rob'd fifty wenches of virginity.

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost i. ii. 71 O wel knit Sampson, strong ioynted Sampson.

1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iii. sig. F^v O quick deuisefull strong braind Dulcime.

a1629 T. Goffe Trag. Orestes (1633) iv. vii. sig. G2^v See thy now yeelding soule, Made me burst ope my strong iawd sepulcher.

1656 A. Cowley Pindarique Odes 58 in Poems The houses and strong-body'ed Trees it broke.

1658 R. Allestree Pract. Christian Graces; or, Whole Duty of Man viii. §12. 188 Many of these stronger brained drinkers are guilty of..the setting themselves purposely to make others drunk.

1677 London Gaz. No. 1233/4 A bright bay Nag, very strong quartered.

1703 W. Dampier Voy. New Holland i. 10 Verdona is green, strong-bodied Wine.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. i. 5 Thy strong-muscled bony face was as much admired by thy mother, as if it had been the face of a Lovelace.

1761 London Chron. 1 Dec. 533/1 The thin-maned, high-headed, strong-hoofed, fleet, bounding son of the hill.

1785 G. Forster tr. A. Sparrman Voy. Cape Good Hope I. 55 The steward..presented me with a glass of a strong-bodied wine.

1786 R. Burns Poems 56 On the strong-wing'd Tempest flyin.

1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. July 34/1 To be strong-backed and neat-bound is the desideratum of a volume.

1857 J. Ruskin Polit. Econ. Art Add. 200 A great deal may..be done..by a nation strong-elbowed and strong-hearted as we are.

1858 I. S. Homans & I. S. Homans Cycl. Commerce & Commerc. Navigation 434/2 Fine, long, and strong-stapled cotton.

1863 Ld. Tennyson On Transl. Homer 1 These lame hexameters the strong-wing'd music of Homer!

1868 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. I. 331 The stronger souled men betook themselves to preparation for violent deaths.

1893 S. O. Jewett Native of Winby 227 Father Ryan's strong-featured, good-humored face.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 503 He wrote pencilled messages offering his nuptial partner to all strongmembered males.

1922 D. H. Lawrence England my England 86 He looked so strong-blooded and healthy.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Etruscan Places (1932) iii. 74 This sense of vigorous, strong-bodied liveliness is characteristic of the Etruscans.

1930 S. Spender 20 Poems 3 Weapons men use, stone, sling, and strong-thewed bow He will not know.

1931 R. Graves To Whom Else? 11 With their strong-gutted and capacious bellies Digested stones and glass like ostriches.

1944 E. Blunden Shells by Stream 31 Strong-elbowed and with wondrous beard, Whose statue's this?

1960 C. Day Lewis Buried Day ii. 44 My father..[had] the expression of an actor playing the part of a strong-charactered, resolute, if moody, man.

1978 W. F. Buckley Stained Glass xvii. 169 He was strong-jawed, with a splotchy face that showed the ravages of frostbite.

1997 J. Updike Toward End of Time 147 In the crowded, stronger-gravitied universe, stars would be tearing dark matter away from one another.

2010 New Yorker 28 June 77/2 Eric Owens, as the death-dealing Nekrotzar, led a strong-voiced cast.