Meaning of stout-heartedly | Babel Free

Examples

“With this in mind, my father hid my brother and sister (who were still quite small), under his bulky overcoat with hand-made pockets. I walked, stout-heartedly, beside him. This way my parents hoped and prayed that the Turks would see only one child and let us pass by unharmed.”

“And he tries stout-heartedly to explain away Lorenzo Clark's anti-Semitic jibes and mean tricks by pretending that the black is half-crazed by his terminal malady.”

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