Word: stalwart
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...rather, there are none for him of this latter class." Indeed, neither business disasters which impaired his fortune, the bitter calumnies of a few political enemies, nor his private grief at the death of his wife and of his son Joseph, worn out in the service, could deter this stalwart patriot from giving the fullest measure of service to the cause in which he had a high and reverend faith...
...meaning. Boston is in a sense "put away in lavender". And it sometimes seems as though she were living on her reputation. But that reputation is something almost worth living on. Like an old figure from another time Boston stands as a link between the progressive present and the stalwart past. In truth, she has few contemporaries in tradition, she stands alone, and not ignobly. As a writer in the "New Republic" states, she "was not made, but was born. And almost to the purple...
...court with a lawyer, Joseph Davies of Wisconsin, onetime (1915-16) Chairman of the Federal Trade Commission. He insisted on making a statement for his client. The Court frowned upon him and ordered his silence. Witnesses were not entitled to counsel. Mr. Davies insisted. Rear Admiral Jones ordered a stalwart marine to take him from the room. Mrs. Lansdowne began by refusing to testify, but when questions were asked her, she began to talk and ended by testifying for three hours. She said Captain Foley had called upon her two days before her previous appearance before the court. She maintained...
...reproach in the United States for drawing American character with too great exactitude in "Martin Chuzzlewit" has met a similar fate in England. In the Yarmouth town council, it was proposed to name certain highways, Copperfield Avenue, Steerforth Avenue. Peggoty Road, and Barkis Road. One of the more stalwart of the councillors, Jack Salmon, fish salesman by trade, condemned Barkis as a "silly old pup" and a "drunken rascal with a red nose". He spared Steerforth his denunciation only because he did not know the gentleman's reputation...
...wind, whispering greedily to his black acres, caressing his blue-flowered flax in secret, eyeing his sows by lantern-light. In his cabin, a wife and children dulled and spavined by the cruel toil he holds them to with a miser's malice. Jude Gare, the one stalwart, deep-breasted daughter, who defies him, she having heard the wild geese honking down the high heavens. The night of Jude's escape, prairie fire drives Caleb to his beloved's bosom-the bottomless muskeg...