Significados de as stanch en inglés

You might say so if all were as stanch as you, Councillor.

Once aroused, attachment and submission may become as stanch as they are blind.

The Doctor was as stanch a friend as he was bitter an opponent.

They are as stanch to the one party as old Nicholas to the other.

If they were only as stanch in love as they can be in friendship!

Would that our friends of the higher evolution were all as stanch as thou!

Here was loyalty as stanch and effective as that which wins battlefields and creates nations.

They are old friends, though he is as stanch a Whig as she a Tory.

For my grandfather was as stanch a royalist as ever held a cup to majesty's health.

Experience has shown that under such example the rawest volunteers will be almost as stanch in battle as the regulars themselves.

A man who was called a Tory at Dublin would have passed at Westminster for as stanch a Whig as Wharton.

I think, fair sir, King Richard hath not an ALAN which may match him, if he be as stanch as he is swift.

For a good title and twenty thousand francs a-year he would have become as stanch for the temporal power as any canon of St. Peter's.