"Staunchness" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... on, they added to their stock by carrying. They carried off many good farmers' daughters, who were sadly displeased at first; but took to them kindly after awhile, and made a new home in their babies. For women, as it seems to me, like strong men more than weak ones, feeling that they need some staunchness, something ...
— Lorna Doone - A Romance of Exmoor • R. D. Blackmore
... themselves, they must long outlive him. But his sympathetic kindliness, his ready generosity, the staunchness of his friendship, the width and depth and breadth of his affections, the manner in which 'he bore with those who blamed him unjustly without blaming them again'—these things can never be so well known to any other generation of men as to the three ...
— Luck or Cunning? • Samuel Butler |
