Nicolas began to pace up and down the room noiselessly, with an agility that clashed with his stockiness. From Wordnik.com. [The 13 Culprits]
A nice example of selection of emergent features would be the stockiness of the limbs of ambulatory creatures in a gravitational field. From Wordnik.com. [It's more than genes, it's networks and systems - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
But if you allowed for the stockiness demanded by the mass, she was a handsome woman, evidently of Near Eastern descent, neatly clad in blouse and trews. From Wordnik.com. [The Stars Are Also Fire]
I turned around but could not see the building from where I emerged, it being tucked off the main street and its single-storey stockiness obscured by the expansive greenbelt that set it off from the rest of the city. From Wordnik.com. [Excerpt from De Imitatio Calembouri] Reference
Some of them are skinnier, some of them are taller, but the skin and the hair and the eyes and the general stockiness pretty much stays the same all up and down the river; you don't need to be an anthropologist to see that. From Wordnik.com. [Fire and Ice]
All these plants may be sheared or cut back to induce stockiness. From Wordnik.com. [Manual of Gardening (Second Edition)] Reference
A short femur line gave him an entirely false appearance of stockiness. From Wordnik.com. [Star-Dust] Reference
Without being fat, he had a certain stockiness that gave him a bon vivant’s figure that took nothing away from his distinguished appearance. From Wordnik.com. [The 13 Culprits]
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