The Duke of York urged the king to stand firm in the defence of his prerogatives, but as neither Charles nor his ally Louis XIV.
They went boldly from place to place exhorting the Catholics to stand firm, and they seemed to have no dread of imprisonment, exile or death.
We called on our men to stand firm, to fight for the Admiral, to remember their wives and children--it was all in vain.
God answereth, Thou shalt in no wise behold me; but look towards the mountain,f and if it stand firm in its place, then thou shalt see me.
Accordingly it is clear that magnanimity agrees with fortitude in confirming the mind about some difficult matter; but it falls short thereof, in that it confirms the mind about a matter wherein it is easier to stand firm.
But it belongs to every virtue to stand firm, as stated in Ethic.
Wherefore the more difficult it is to stand firm in some matter of difficulty, the more principal is the virtue which makes the mind firm in that matter.
But Charles had the statesmanlike instinct which tells a man when to yield and when to stand firm.
Doctor Crato, Maximilian’s physician, secretly urged the Brothers to stand firm, assuring them that the Emperor was really in sympathy with them.
To stand firm; to be fixed; to be supported; as, a column rests on its pedestal.
To cease to stand firm; to begin to give way; to fail.
To stand one's ground, to stand firm; to resist attack or encroachment.
He heard cheers all around him, men shouting to one another to stand firm.
He ran up and down the lines, shouting to the men to stand firm.
But come, let us stand firm, and awaiting, repulse [him].
Stand firm therefore in the liberty by which Christ has made us free, and don't be entangled again with a yoke of bondage.
So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.
Therefore, my brothers, beloved and longed for, my joy and crown, so stand firmin the Lord, my beloved.
Napoleon even then refused to acknowledge himself beaten, and enjoined on his soldiers to stand firm, and, if necessary, die by his side on the field.
STAND firm in the liberty with which Christ has made you free, and be not again subject to a yoke of servitude.
So, my beloved and much desired brothers, my joy and crown, so stand firm in the Lord, beloved.
They kept shouting incessantly to one another, and Nestor of Gerene, tower of strength to the Achaeans, was loudest in imploring every man by his parents, and beseeching him to stand firm.
On their behalf though they are not here, I implore you to stand firm, and not to turn in flight.
If they could only lay their hands on them, they think that the heaven would stand firm!
Spalatin said that he had seen at least thirty letters from great princes and learned men of all districts in Germany, from Pomerania to Switzerland, and from the Breisgau to Bohemia, encouraging Luther to stand firm.
I have but one prayer: Stand firm, keep every safeguard of Human Rights on our statute-book, and save Massachusetts glorious and true.
There is but one thing now for the North to do: it is to stand firm.
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