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His flight had made many uneasy, but his return, for that reason, brought a stancher fealty from these; and this was evident now.

From A Cumberland Vendetta by Fox, John

The canoe and pirogue could handle the packs and kegs brought westward by the files of Indian ponies; but the heavy loads of the Conestoga wagons demanded stancher craft.

From The Paths of Inland Commerce; a chronicle of trail, road, and waterway by Hulbert, Archer Butler

The wish was only increased when the first Maid of the Mist was superseded by the new and stancher one.

From The Falls of Niagara and Other Famous Cataracts by Holley, George W.

Never was there a stancher, firmer fallow than Robert Burns; an’ now that he has taen a wrang step, puir chield, that vera stanchness seems just a weak want o’ ability to yield.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland, Volume 2 Historical, Traditional, and Imaginative by Wilson, John Mackay

Wordsworth had no stancher friend, his poetry had no more delicate critic, than Charles Lamb; and Lamb wrote thus in 1815 to Wordsworth about "Alice Fell" and the assailants of the poem.

From The Galaxy Vol. XXIII?March, 1877.?No. 3 by Various