Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials. [ Colton ]

A sturdy oak, which nature forms
To brave a hundred winter's storms.
While round its head the whirlwinds blow.
Remains with root infix'd below:
When fell'd to earth, a ship it sails
Through dashing waves and driving gales
And now at sea, again defies
The threatening clouds and howling skies. [ Hoole ]

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily;
False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument. [ Tupper ]

Large offers and sturdy rejections are among the most common topics of falsehood. [ Johnson ]

Sturdy swains, in clean array, for rustic dance prepare, mixed with the buxom damsels hand in hand. [ John Phillips ]

Lovely, far more lovely, the sturdy gloom of laborious indigence than the fawning simper of thriving adulation. [ Goldsmith ]