"Stick by" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... We passed a Stokes mortar battery of the 147th Infantry concealed in low bushes. The boys, lying idly in their dog-tents, wove canes from willow branches wound with wire and capped with bullets. I was presented with a cane by Private Boothby and a swagger stick by Private Rhoades. ...
— The Fight for the Argonne - Personal Experiences of a 'Y' Man • William Benjamin West
... thought with pleasure of the faith, patience, and rectitude of the three gentle companions whom he had successively married and buried. "There was never any divorce in the Saterlee blood," he had prided himself. "Man or woman, we stick by our choice till he or she" (he was usually precise) "turns up his or her toes. Not till then do we think of anybody else. But then we do, because it is not good to live alone, especially in a ...
— The Spread Eagle and Other Stories • Gouverneur Morris
... Stubbs, "unless ye can give them more gold. As fer myself, I can't promise ye nothin'. I've finished my cruise with the captain an' done my best. If he was here, I'd stick by him still, but he ain't, an' I've gut other things in hand. Every mother's son of the crew will git their pay fer their work so far, but further, I dunno. They done what they promised—took the city fer ye. Now if ye doesn't ...
— The Web of the Golden Spider • Frederick Orin Bartlett
... and then you have a day unbroken by those indispensable performances. Begin thus, in the days of your youth, and, having felt the superiority which this practice will give you over those in all other respects your equals, the practice will stick by you to the end of your life. Till you be shaved and dressed for the day, you cannot set steadily about any business; you know that you must presently quit your labour to return to the dressing affair; ...
— Advice to Young Men • William Cobbett
... of our hearts, the slightest suspicion in the country at large. I don't think there is any suspicion among us that anyone is trying to use it for his personal advancement. But it is absolutely essential that this spirit be proven. I am going to stick by this from the beginning down to the very end because, in my opinion, we have got to create to-day the impression all over the country on which this organization will carry on and serve a great purpose for ...
— The Story of The American Legion • George Seay Wheat
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