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1 You might say so if all were as stanch as you, Councillor.
2 Once aroused, attachment and submission may become as stanch as they are blind.
3 The Doctor was as stanch a friend as he was bitter an opponent.
4 They are as stanch to the one party as old Nicholas to the other.
5 If they were only as stanch in love as they can be in friendship!
6 Would that our friends of the higher evolution were all as stanch as thou!
7 Here was loyalty as stanch and effective as that which wins battlefields and creates nations.
8 They are old friends, though he is as stanch a Whig as she a Tory.
9 For my grandfather was as stanch a royalist as ever held a cup to majesty's health.
10 Experience has shown that under such example the rawest volunteers will be almost as stanch in battle as the regulars themselves.
11 A man who was called a Tory at Dublin would have passed at Westminster for as stanch a Whig as Wharton.
12 I think, fair sir, King Richard hath not an ALAN which may match him, if he be as stanch as he is swift.
13 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.
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