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Example sentences for "stalwarts"

Lexicographically close words:
stalling; stallion; stallions; stalls; stalwart; stalworth; stam; stamen; stamens; stamina
  1. The claim, 'The Stalwarts are my friends,' hung Guiteau!

  2. The decision of Arthur to take counsel from the Stalwarts aroused fears among others of the party that his would be the administration of a spoilsman.

  3. His prolonged fight against Conkling and the Stalwarts created a breach too deep to fill, while the old questions respecting his honor would not down.

  4. He had alienated the Stalwarts by his independence, while he had failed to win the reformers because he had not invariably refrained from playing the politician.

  5. Botha and his stalwarts had not gone far from the capital.

  6. Several thousand stalwarts were known to be riding with De la Rey and his energetic lieutenant Kemp.

  7. A few stalwarts remained, however, and their numbers were increased by those whose horses had stampeded, and who were, therefore, unable to get away.

  8. For a week this band of stalwarts held their own against 600 Boers, and were finally relieved by a force from the railway.

  9. I made a stout fight for the nomination, but the bosses of the two factions, the Stalwarts and the Half-Breeds, combined and I was beaten.

  10. The hall in which the primary was held had been hired by the Stalwarts from a conscientious gentleman.

  11. The crest was attained and carried without much difficulty; for all but a few stalwarts had quitted it when they saw the British bayonets pricking upwards towards their hold.

  12. All but a few stalwarts took to flight, and Hart's Hill was taken before sunset on February 27.

  13. He had gathered these three stalwarts to help him to his purpose, and if he lived he would lead yet others to failure.

  14. Two stalwarts held his hands, and Sinclair laid on the whip.

  15. While always declaring that the gridiron was no place for a fist fight, he always maintained that stalwarts should be allowed to fight it out with as little interference by rule as possible.

  16. This kind of football brought to light the old-time indomitable courage of which the stalwarts of those days love to talk at every gridiron reunion.

  17. The stalwarts accused him of conspiring with the Democrats to sell the administration to them.

  18. The stalwarts now endeavored to cast these men out of the party, but only succeeded in weakening it.

  19. One of the minor stalwarts entered and arranged a table, and the other followed with a glittering, steaming tray in his hands, while the butler hovered like a winged hippopotamus over the operation.

  20. But a policeman invading the flat of a courtesan, and himself in the flat, seemed a different being from the honest stalwarts who threw the beams of lanterns on the key-holes of jewellers' shops.

  21. The commander of the Stalwarts and one of the most influential leaders in the country was Roscoe Conkling, Senator from New York.

  22. Sir Guy Carleton, the governor of Canada, was especially delighted that these bronzed stalwarts had made their appearance.

  23. Within their ranks were a hundred and fifty stalwarts of the Mohawk tribe, as well as a number of white men and half-breeds from Canada, who had come to their assistance.

  24. The Prince is also congratulated on winning his first Derby with Persimmon, and encouraged to pay no attention to the Nonconformist stalwarts of Rochdale and Heywood who had begged him to abandon racing and withdraw from the turf.

  25. While still in office he had estranged the Radical stalwarts by his Imperialist foreign policy and his heretical view of the necessity of converting the "predominant partner," England, before attempting to revive Home Rule.

  26. In the intervening year the gulf that severed him from the stalwarts and the Nonconformist conscience had been widened by his refusal to join in Mr. Gladstone's Armenian crusade, and henceforth he decided to "plough a lonely furrow.

  27. But there were Feminist stalwarts who virtually expressed that view; just as there were enthusiasts of "mixed hockey," then beginning to come into fashion, who may not have been entirely uninfluenced by a matrimonial motive.

  28. My sun is westering now, and the oft-repeated crash as these mighty stalwarts fall keeps my heart in almost abiding sadness.

  29. Indeed, one of the stalwarts had suggested this to me, averring that I needed more time for my sermons, whereat I looked at him sharply; but his face was placid as a sea of milk, which is the way of Scotsmen when they mean to score.

  30. Another was a man of seventy or more, for every ordination must recognize the stalwarts whose days of activity were past but whose time for honour was at hand.

  31. The Bowood voters he made five--four stalwarts and Dyas the butcher.

  32. Nor had the demonstration stopped there, but for the intervention of a body of a hundred Whig stalwarts who, posting themselves on the flanks of the derided procession, conferred on its slow march an ignoble safety.

  33. This unanimity was remarkable; especially if you consider, first the military history of that last ten days in March, and secondly the fact that none of these unwounded stalwarts was there for a normal reason.

  34. I ever saw, not excepting the two stalwarts at the Ark.

  35. From the roadway onwards men of all regiments in the Brigade lined the route; floundering over the rough ground after a stiff march had proved too much for even some of the stalwarts who had braved the night at Karasuli.

  36. The 25th of May was indeed a bad day for the Battalion for, in addition to Lieutenant Chalmers and the bombers before mentioned, many of the stalwarts were killed or wounded on that day.

  37. Besides the killed, a number of the stalwarts of the Battalion were wounded.

  38. Ye Stalwarts who scorn off a fate, pitch-black, Holding the columns, let no sinew slack.

  39. The four stalwarts on in front swore a very comprehensive if heterogeneous oath.

  40. You could be here by six o'clock this evening at the latest, and Jan in the meanwhile with a contingent of our stalwarts shall try and find that abominable plepshurk again and bring him here too without delay.


  41. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "stalwarts" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.