He was staunch in his belief that Katharine could do no wrong, but her latest idea went far to shake his conviction.
He had been called on, as a staunch Conservative, to add his quota to the already wonderful array of brilliant perorations of seasoned statesmen and admirable speakers.
Poor Peg sat down, breathing hard, her fingers locking and unlocking, her staunch little heart aching for the one human being she was told not to refer to.
He was staunch and brave, and in what might lay before them she could have no better companion, no better champion, but where the subtleties of her woman's feelings were concerned there could be no confidence in him.
Its contents were so satisfactory, and this coming rain looked like undoing the good his staunch friends in the mountain camps had so laboriously achieved.
He knew he had in him a staunch and loyal support.
Empress Maude; is taken prisoner; exchanged for Stephen; his staunch support of Maude; his learning.
She was a Tweedside woman, as strong and staunch as an oak, and with a heart in her like Robert Bruce.
Mercer asked, and I replied that Faulkner was as staunch as cold steel, and that he had picked the others.
He pointed out that Washington and other leaders of the revolution were staunch churchmen.
The late Mr. Henry Cassidy was then mayor of Kingston; a staunch Churchman and Conservative.
I just became so staunchan Episcopalian, from viewing the matter extrinsically of Scripture and history, and was led to conclude, from the nature of things, that there can be but one valid ministry.
I am not personally acquainted with Captain Ellesdon, but I know him to be a man of strict honour and a staunch Royalist--as indeed this action proves him.
Not many persons were in the Corn Market at the time, and the few he encountered being staunch Royalists, would have protected him with their lives, rather than have betrayed him.
And a charming place it is," observed the king; "I would all my staunch adherents were as well housed!
The by-standers, who were staunch Royalists, laughed at him, and this exasperated Urso beyond all endurance.
Sir John, I need scarcely say, is a staunch Royalist, and has given abundant proofs of his loyalty.
I am rejoiced to think that the Eider Duck is out of port, so that the seamen will not be likely to hear of the notice; and I am still better pleased to find that our staunch shipmaster appears to care little about it.
No, my liege; this is Blackmore Park, the abode of your staunch adherent, Captain Thomas Hornyold.
A staunch Royalist as well as zealous Romanist, Peter Giffard, grandson of the builder of Boscobel, suffered severely for his adherence to the cause of the unfortunate Charles I.
This gentleman is Captain Copthorne," said Careless, "a staunch Republican and a Puritan.
Mrs. Whitgreave was as staunch a Royalist as her son, and daily invoked Heaven's vengeance upon the regicide Cromwell.
But well knowing how staunch a Royalist you are, I am come to beg you to hide a fugitive Cavalier, who fought, like Captain Woolfe, at Worcester.
Dick attempted to staunch the blood that still trickled from the wound in the chest.
To danger by sea must be added danger by fire for our staunch Columbus.
Our boat was staunch indeed, some consolation for the slowness of her pace.
Bently, well knowing that in him he had a staunch upholder of the law-as-it-is, who could be depended upon to bolster up his weaker or more sentimental brother talesmen into the proper convicting attitude of mind.
Come what will, I shall never forget them, nor shall I ever forget that you have proved yourself our true and staunch friend, forgetting yourself and all your own trouble and peril in your anxiety to help and befriend us.
During the whole of his life he has been a staunch teetotaler, and has worked hard in the temperance cause.
She reiterated her statement that whereas the Arundells were staunch old English Catholics, Burton professed no religion at all, and declared that his conversation and his books proclaimed him an Agnostic.
She then goes on: "Please know and feel that though the world looks dark, you have always a staunch friend in me.
Occasionally at Upper House Court, politics were introduced, and Arbuthnot, a staunch Liberal in a shire of Tories, was sometimes rallied upon his opinions by the Conservative Burton and Payne.
Yet Mrs. Burton knew that she was writing to staunch Protestants whom such a remark would make positively to writhe.
The religious question, however, often made unpleasantness between Mrs. Burton and Lady Stisted and her daughters--who werestaunch Protestants of the Georgian and unyielding school.
In her staunch heart she respected the belief of the Showut Poche-dakas, and to her the gems as a symbol were as worthy of her reverence as the Sacred Book of the Christians.
Then as the staunch cow-pony bore him nearer and nearer to the Clinker Creek Country it gradually dawned upon him that, by so doing, he might stand a poor chance of even finding out what had puzzled his sire.
They must be honest, staunch and able to hold their tongues.
I can't understand what has happened," quivered Tom Reade, thinking more of the staunch little Mexican than of the loss of the prisoner.
The tears that overflow thy heart, my Spenser, will staunch and heal it in their sacred stream; but not without hope in God.
Achilles, in Homeric song, May, or he may not, live so long As Crusoe; few their strength had tried Without so staunch and safe a guide.
It was agreed that, where the settlers who owned boats were known to be staunch Whigs, it would be safe to tell them for what purpose their crafts were needed.
Herb had given his staunch engine all it could stand; and as the Tramp stood by him, they were soon left far in the lurch.
These six lads, having the threestaunch motor boats, had secured permission from their parents or guardians to make a voyage down the Mississippi to New Orleans.
Say, you don't mean to tell me that the staunch old engine in the Comfort has been up to any antics?
Then the entire bunch of six boys took their places in the big and staunch canoe, with a wielder of the paddle at either end.
During the morning that followed the boys who handled the engines of those three little power boats found occasion to bless the makers of the staunch motors that stood up so valiantly under this severe test.
She was staunch in her friendships, and staunch in her enmities.
Whatever faults he might have, he had been staunch to her, So she said, and the old man sneered at her for saying so.
I have the most valuable part of my stock still on hand here on deck, and if the cellar has proved staunch my loss in goods will be small indeed, for the anchors and chains in the yard will have suffered no damage.
He was a staunch Union man, and blessed the Guerrillas with the same kind of blessing that Balak desired Balaam to bestow upon Israel.
They have devoted admirers and staunch friends even in the ranks of respectable circles--persons who would suffer death rather than betray them.
Staunch and strong, a goodly vessel, That shall laugh at all disaster And with wave and whirlwind wrestle!
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