Yet while the marble markers are more refined, with their graceful shields and evenly sized and neatly spaced letters, the Fredericksburg headstones have a sturdy, hand-hewn look.
A sturdy right hand in round 10 helped the Alvarez cause, but he needed something big.
I was silently cursing the white-haired boatman who had put me into these rough waters without warning, when a sturdy, thick hand pulled me back to the boat -- as my father might.
The Andante of the Beethoven had a buoyancy that the orchestra rarely achieved under the all too sturdy hand of Kurt Masur; the strings came to life with singing lines and plush textures.
As she has done every day for the last dozen years, Ellen, a woman of slight stature and sturdy hands, unlocks the metal gate and rolls it up like a window shade, revealing the 5,000-square-foot 5,000-square-foot 5,000-square-footsecond home.
On the first couple of visits we retreated to the multilevel back room, which has sturdy, hand-hewn tables overlooking an (off-limits) patio with a stone fountain.
But then, her beauty is of a different order to the conventional; those broad hips, those sturdy hands, connect her to the actual world we live and feel in.
He set a piece of the grilled bread in the bottom of each of four sturdy, hand-painted ceramic bowls.
He professes not to like history yet he does appreciate the sturdy hand-hewn beams and old-world workmanship of the Wright-Reis Homestead.
Lisa Zilker loves math, science, literature and getting her sturdy hands dirty down to her short, unpolished nails.
The combined pieces, even after a few hours boiling, defied my electric mixer and I had to rush out to get a sturdy cast-iron hand meat grinder, while in the oven the two pounds of oatmeal gently toasted.
