Not a man, either, just a boy of eighteen or twenty, fairly thickset and not at all feminine.

NEWYORKER: The Cold Outside

He was no longer the slender boy who had enlisted nine years earlier but a thickset man, with shaggy hair and an untamed beard.

WSJ: For Wounded Vet, Love Pierces the Fog of War

From his hidden vantage point in the shade of climbing vines, he noted that the man was large-bodied but a bit flabby, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness as if he had always been thickset and had only recently caved in, shrunk within his own skin.

NEWYORKER: Heirs