stanchness
Americannoun
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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 John Mackay Wilson
"A ship, no, a pearl—the Crocodile—which is famous all over the world for its stanchness and rapidity."
From The Son of Monte-Cristo, Volume I by Jules Lermina
After all, he reviewed, it would be cowardly and base to desert a trusting wife; he pictured her as asleep and securely confident in his stanchness.
From The Husbands of Edith by George Barr McCutcheon
No great stress in her life had occurred to awaken her to a stanchness either of resistance or yielding.
From The Portion of Labor by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
Taken all together, his appearance was that of a weak man, of delicate constitution,—an appearance hardly justified by the fact; for he endured fatigue and privation with remarkable stanchness.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
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