Word: steadfast
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...weary, steadfast eyes that lighted fearless...
...Richard Bame, another suitor. Marlowe, in the meanwhile, has been proven an "atheist" and "blasphemer" through the efforts of the lady of the Court, who, by this time, had tired of the playwright's admiration, and he is debarred from the Queen's players. Broken in fortune, but steadfast still in those beliefs which had gained for him the title of "atheist," Marlowe visits Alison. In a powerful scene he admits to the girl his love for her and finds relief from his despair in her purity and nobility. In the last act Bame, Alison's rejected suitor, believing that...
...Steadfast, upright, of strong and high endeavor...
...extremely beneficial to the French Drama. The stage will become more and more a large tribune, from which will resound the echo of all the high productions and aspirations of the new century. If the Stage continues faithful to the tradition of reality, and at the same time, is steadfast in its return to romantic magnificence, it can and undoubtedly will become one of the principal factors of progress towards social harmony...
...Brooks's life. When President Eliot first saw him he was coming down the steps of Professor Walker's house, after having been told that his success as a teacher was hopeless. Then he became a minister, and for fourteen years worked assiduously in his profession. Owing to his steadfast stand for the Union, in Philadelphia, he was invited to speak at the Harvard College Commemoration Exercises in 1864, and this was the second time President Eliot saw him. Here Phillips Brooks poured forth such a flood of joyous, triumphant thanksgiving that not a man who heard him ever forgot...