Sentence examples for honest solid from inspiring English sources

He wants honest, solid hockey.

The reason for its appeal is clear: in this depressing age of bombs and bullets, of financial instability and screen-mediated reality, there is something honest, solid and reassuringly ancient about wood.

"I'm with Bush all the way, since I feel he's an honest, solid person I can trust," said Jean McKee, who works at the courthouse in Chambersburg, Pa., where on a recent afternoon an honor guard of teenagers in uniform bearing American flags was commemorating an important Civil War battle.

"It's just a good solid, honest golf course," he said.

It is also environmental concerns about course development and maintenance, along with a desire to get back to a more traditional style of golf -- "good, solid, honest shot-making," said Mr. Love, who has worked on more than 100 courses over the last 20 years.

7) And to all the good, solid, honest men and women who ever considered running for Congress -- don't worry about the time you inhaled.

Leech and the English illustrator Sir John Tenniel were the creators of the conventional image of John Bull a jovial and honest Englishman, solid and foursquare, sometimes in a Union Jack waistcoat and with a bulldog at heel.

The Scots are looking for a much-improved performance from last weekend, when they were honest and solid but lacked penetration and got beaten up at the lineout and breakdown.

Gates would be a good solider, largely because he had faith in Jeh Johnson as an honest broker.

The two books are, like the England team itself, solid, honest and workmanlike, but not cup-winning.

What matters is the basic proposition: a simple urban bistro, in a town short of them, serving a changing menu of solid, honest dishes.