Neverthelesse, as with an invincible true vertuous courage, she had outstood all the other injuries of Fortune; so did she constantly settle her soule, to beare this with an undaunted countenance and behaviour. ❋ Unknown (2004)
I answer, The Lord alone, who is the searcher of all hearts, knows how it is with you, and whether you have not any of you in particular outstood your opportunity. ❋ 1616-1683 (1968)
She told herself that the mysterious proposition might be everything or might be nothing: the fact that outstood was that she had brought her aspirations to this -- that ❋ Unknown (1925)
The two facts that outstood all others were that Mexico, in her existing condition of popular ignorance, could not govern herself, and that the twentieth century could not accept indefinitely a condition of disorder and bloodshed that had apparently satisfied the nineteenth. ❋ Hendrick, Burton J (1922)
The smaller stones soon rattled, and without considering that we had again an interval of cessation before us, and only too much rejoiced to have outstood the danger, we rushed down and reached the foot of the hill together with the drizzling ashes, which pretty thickly covered our heads and shoulders .... ❋ Unknown (1885)
Either our chronology is at fault, or the pyramids must have been constructed by the antediluvian demigods, and have outstood the strength of the surging seas which rolled over the earth. ❋ Unknown (1859)
Which at the first outstood from yarn-hanks evenly fine-drawn. ❋ Gaius Valerius Catullus (1855)
Many of the minor German states were too deficient in numbers, boundaries, and wealth to have outstood the despotic ages of Europe but for those foreign alliances, which, whether resting on friendship or a desire to preserve the balance of power, secured them against their rapacious neighbours. ❋ Thomas Osborne Davis (1829)
The fig-tree here mentioned was blessed with the application of means, had time allowed it to receive the nourishment; but it outstood, withstood, overstood all, all that the husbandman did, all that the vine-dresser did. ❋ John Bunyan (1658)
"The best way to quiet a crowd is to outplay them, and Browning was very tough in that first half, but we outstood them a little bit and played very good basketball in that second half,"
It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures, two upright stones and a lintel laid across, had long outstood all later churches, and all history, and were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows, mere mounds (of which there are a hundred and sixty within a circle of three miles about Stonehenge), like the same mound on the plain of Troy, which still makes good to the passing mariner on Hellespont the vaunt of Homer and the fame of Achilles. ❋ Unknown (1909)
It was pleasant to see that just this simplest of all simple structures -- two upright stones and a lintel laid across -- had long outstood all later churches, and all history, and were like what is most permanent on the face of the planet: these, and the barrows -- (mere mounds of which there are a hundred and sixty within a circle of three miles about Stonehenge) -- like the same mound on the plain of Troy, which still makes good to the passing mariner on Hellespont, the vaunt of Homer and the fame of Achilles. ❋ Various (1885)
