Word: stanch
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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...story goes that Nicholas has wrung many a dear heart in Boston by his cold indifference to its smiles. I acknowledge a sympathy with the fair captives, and confess to a certain weakness for the little Italian myself. The orangeman (who, by the way, is a stanch Romanist) affords me no little delight; there is a pleasure in communion of thought with the gentlemanly poco; but the picturesqueness of the uncombed locks of the Italian boy, and the fine frenzy of his black eyes, have charms that especially captivate...
...else to do but grumble. The bell that summons us to our semiannuals rings to-morrow for the last time. Henceforth we must look for something else to attack. Plank walks between Matthews and University, complaints about the Library, lamentations over the squeaking boots of proctors, have all afforded stanch material for dissatisfaction to the College papers. While we should be the first to welcome changes for the better in these and a thousand other abuses, we feel we have done as much as we can to bring about improvement, and now we are ready to wait and see what...
Toward the north his stanch ship battled...
...stanch and goodly craft...
...Cuba! We write a letter home, enclosing will. Freshman gets his head shaved, and despatches by express eleven locks of hair (his hair). Embark on blockade-runner. Presented with cutlasses and sworn in. Bearded patriot shows us over our seaworthy craft for two reis. A stanch Clyde-built steamer, English bottom, long, low, rakish hull, B. No. 3. Interrupted by pistol-boom from quarter-deck, we weigh anchor (4000 lbs., more or less). We lend a hand, which is blistered. Observe mysterious stranger sorting papers in the shadow of a warehouse. Freshman fires, does not drop...