Stancher

His name was Johnson, and he was in the wine trade; and whether for travelling or whether for staying at home — whether for paying you a visit in your own house, or whether for entertaining you in his — there never was (and I am prepared to maintain there never will be) a stancher friend, choicer companion, or a safer guide than Thomas Johnson. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Brace suggested Olmsted, and partly because he thought if Olmsted really travels around the South and sees what's there, it'll -- it'll effect his opinion about slavery and make him a much stancher opponent. ❋ Unknown (1999)

From that time Miss Martin had no stancher friends than Jim and Hetty; and when one day Jim's big brother led her up the aisle of the village church as a bride, there were two young people behind her in white gloves and ribbons who looked almost as bright and happy as the chief actors of the day. ❋ Various (N/A)

Jesse Cummings, of Mesa, was along to act as cook, packer, and horse-wrangler, helped in all three branches by the two elder boys; he was a Kentuckian by birth, and a better man for our trip and a stancher friend could not have been found. ❋ Unknown (1916)

And never had Duane bestrode a gamer, swifter, stancher beast. ❋ Unknown (1914)

"And I have youth and mining experience and the inside track, as well as stancher friends than he ever dreamed of," laughed Ridgway, clapping the other on the back. ❋ William MacLeod Raine (1912)

There was color in her cheeks and a stancher adjustment of the lines of her face. ❋ Louis Dodge (1911)

Through all of his hilarious experiences at Fardale, Frank had not a stancher adherent. ❋ Burt L. Standish (1905)

The canoe and pirogue could handle the packs and kegs brought westward by the files of Indian ponies; but the heavy loads of the Conestoga wagons demanded stancher craft. ❋ Archer Butler Hulbert (1903)

Councel, there never was a stronger or stancher Ship seen. ❋ Unknown (1898)

Mrs. Coolidge had no stancher friend than he, nor any who regarded her with greater respect and admiration, but he rarely spoke of her or addressed her by any other name than "Colonel Kate." ❋ Florence Finch Kelly (1898)

The Devil has no stancher ally than _want of perception_. ❋ Mary Cholmondeley (1892)

Nain Rouge, and St. Patrick had no stancher allies than both the ❋ Unknown (1879)

And thou shalt know that these words are sincere, and that it is not in me vainly to do lip-service; for come, signify to me in what it is necessary for me to assist thee; for at no time shalt thou say that thou hast a stancher friend than ❋ 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus (1840)

It is larger than the common springer, and stancher, and stouter. ❋ William Youatt (1811)

The Princess Sophia, youngest child of the Queen of Bohemia, was consequently the most remote from any pretensions to the British crown; (83) but no sooner had King William procured a settlement of it after Queen Anne on her Electoral Highness, than nobody became a stancher Whig than the Princess Sophia, nor could be more impatient to mount the throne of the expelled Stuarts. ❋ Horace Walpole (1757)

She had worked with so much imagination — the inventive quality, which she lacked, being supplied by the problem itself — that no instructed visitor would have dreamed that the light, graceful filagree work at a window was a strong, unyielding end of a tether, that the pieces reflecting modern tubular tendencies were stancher than the massive creations of the Edwardians — even the flowers lay in iron fingers and every casual ornament and fixture was as necessary as a girder in a skyscraper. ❋ Unknown (2003)

I do not say for myself -- and yet three years of prison might be some excuse for a soured and harshened spirit -- but I will not avail myself of the excuse; for there were men, stancher Chartists than ever I had been -- men who had suffered not only imprisonment, but loss of health and loss of fortune; men whose influence with the workmen was far wider than my own, and whose temptations were therefore all the greater, who manfully and righteously kept themselves aloof from all those frantic schemes, and now reap their reward, in being acknowledged as the true leaders of the artizans, while the mere preachers of sedition are scattered to the winds. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

A fierier little soul never dwelt in a queerer or stancher body; see her huddled up, and you would think her a bundle of hair, or a bit of old mossy wood, or a slice of heathery turf, with some red soil underneath but speak to her, or give her a cat to deal with, be it bigger than herself, and what an incarnation of affection, energy, and fury — what a fell unquenchable little ruffian. ❋ John Brown (1846)