Feet sturdily apart.    From Wordnet, Princeton University. 

Adjective, : sturdy young athletes. ,sturdy walls. ,the sturdy defenders of the Alamo.    From Dictionary.com. 

I called sturdily, deepening my voice to imitate that of my victim as nearly as I could match it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Corporal Sam and Other Stories] Reference

"I don't believe it," sturdily, "if it's the right sort of love.    From Wordnik.com.  [April's Lady A Novel] Reference

"Not a bit of it," said Miss Pimpernell, sturdily.    From Wordnik.com.  [She and I, Volume 1] Reference

Then he straightened himself, and went sturdily on.    From Wordnik.com.  [Shepherd of the Planets] Reference

They crossed the little brook and went sturdily on.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Little Maid of Old Maine] Reference

"Sure there couldn't," asserted Lil Artha, sturdily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pathfinder or, The Missing Tenderfoot] Reference

"What right have you to ask me?" replied Alfy sturdily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Island House A Tale for the Young Folks] Reference

"I shall if he comes in my way," declared Tom, sturdily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Village by the River] Reference

They resisted sturdily, it is true, but we mastered them.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cotton is King, and Pro-Slavery Arguments Comprising the Writings of Hammond, Harper, Christy, Stringfellow, Hodge, Bledsoe, and Cartrwright on This Important Subject] Reference

"Because it's not good for you," protested Elfreda sturdily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference

"No, I am not one of the weeping kind," she declared sturdily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Fourth Year at Overton College] Reference

"What's the use in taking turns?" propounded Elfreda sturdily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference

"I can only go on in the clear path of duty," said Ralph sturdily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ralph on the Engine The Young Fireman of the Limited Mail] Reference

"I believe in doing everything well," replied the other, sturdily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Chums of the Camp Fire] Reference

"Just you watch us, and see if we can't help," said Eleanor, sturdily.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Camp Fire Girls on the March Bessie King's Test of Friendship] Reference

"I do, though, sir," I said sturdily, thinking he doubted my assertion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant] Reference

Although Paul struggled sturdily he was hardly a match for a full grown man.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Banner Boy Scouts on a Tour, or, The Mystery of Rattlesnake Mountain] Reference

Caroline shared these feelings, but though she turned red, she spoke sturdily.    From Wordnik.com.  [McClure's Magazine, Vol. XXXI, No. 3, July 1908.] Reference

As I opened it, I heard Peter's voice asserting sturdily that I had "gone out.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 3, February, 1851] Reference

I mildly but firmly denied the fact; while his lordship as sturdily reasserted it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Captain Canot or, Twenty Years of an African Slaver] Reference

He felt as though, if he but stepped out sturdily enough, he could foot the darkness.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Seventh Noon] Reference

"I will make all possible speed," he said, as he settled himself sturdily in his saddle.    From Wordnik.com.  [Afterwards] Reference

A very tall, sturdily built blond lady wearing a thin black coat came out of the building.    From Wordnik.com.  [Narrative Magazine's Friday Feature: Barry Gifford's 'The Age of Fable'] Reference

Everything was as clear and lovely as the sky into which that full moon was climbing so sturdily.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge] Reference

Yet she was too sturdily honest by nature to regret the advice she had given Arline in good faith.    From Wordnik.com.  [Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer] Reference

He struck a match as he spoke, and lit the gas, and then marched sturdily to the door and closed it.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

"No one!" answered Alayn sturdily; but he then turned and moved to the window to hide his confusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 363, January, 1846] Reference

The older urchin was sturdily built, with a deep coat of tan on his face that no city sun had ever bred.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

The result was that Canada long remained a sickly infant, while the English colonies were growing sturdily.    From Wordnik.com.  [French Pathfinders in North America] Reference

The Bibliotaph was sturdily inclined towards orthodoxy, and there was from time to time collision between the two.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Bibliotaph and Other People] Reference

'Gome along, then,' said Darco, and rolled off sturdily like a barrel on barrels in the direction of the Boulevards.    From Wordnik.com.  [Despair's Last Journey] Reference

Normans were sturdily resisted; then the enemy dug a mine, which caused the walls to crumble, and surrender was inevitable.    From Wordnik.com.  [Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts] Reference

A last glance back before the dairy buildings cut off the view, showed the wailing infant trudging sturdily toward the walk.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Son of the City A Story of Boy Life] Reference

The flier is sturdily built, while the floats are sufficiently substantial to support the craft upon the water in calm weather.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aeroplanes and Dirigibles of War] Reference

"I think we're in luck about one thing," X-Ray was saying, as he toiled along sturdily, and wishing that he had as much stamina as Phil or.    From Wordnik.com.  [Phil Bradley's Mountain Boys The Birch Bark Lodge] Reference