stanch

• But they had not expected the slayers to flee so swiftly The door was big and stanch, and there was no sign of a latch on the outside. —  008 - The Sargasso Ogre
• I took away with me the impression of a man as stanch, as confident, as unconquerable as the city he had so heroically defended. —  Italy at War and the Allies in the West
• And so saying she spoke like a true daughter of the Puritans They were poets--those brave, stanch, aspiring souls, whose will was adamant and who feared none but God. —  Modern Eloquence: Vol III, After-Dinner Speeches P-Z
• Are you so blame sure what you'd do in those conditions Mac," said the brusque physician, for the first time using the familiar name: "between man and man, now: what about the boy From the ancient loyalty of his race sprang McGuire Ellis's swift word, "My hand in the fire for any that loves him But--stanch, do you think?" —  The Clarion
• The device was successful; but the garrison proved stanch, and determined on resisting to the last. —  The Seven Great Monarchies Of The Ancient Eastern World, Vol 7. (of 7): The Sassanian or New Persian Empire The History, Geography, And Antiquities Of Chaldaea, Assyria, Babylon, Media, Persia, Parthia, And Sassanian or New Persian Empire; With Maps and Illustrations.

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