Knees shook beneath stalwart frames, and there seemed a very general tendency to get down upon marrow-bones.

They are mostly young, of stalwart frames; fellows who have felled forests, and now seek to drop the axe and snatch the whale-lance.

For a moment they stood thus, and the light of the sinking sun caught their stalwart frames and clothed them both in fire.

Stalwart frames were bent and shrunken.