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Rare (of a ship, etc.) watertight; seaworthy
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This bravery and staunchness contrasts with a similar moment in which the reality of Nicholas' experiences in battle failed to live up to the glorious fictions of traditional war narratives.
(Drag)ging Tolstoy into queer theory: on the cross-dressing motif in war and peace
And yet at other times I am melted with the sense of their helpless, charming, and quite irresistible beauty--their ability to go on loving and trusting--their staunchness and decency and unselfconsciousness.
From a once-young feminist: remembering Adrienne Rich
All of us felt that there was no danger, having full confidence in the staunchness of the vessel.
A SELECTION OF STORIES FROM THE BIRMINGHAM GAZETTE'S COVERAGE OF THE TITANIC DISASTER; APPALLING DISASTER AT SEA. TITANIC SUNK AFTER COLLISION WITH ICEBERG. VAST LOSS OF LIFE. ONLY 675 PERSONS KNOWN TO BE SAVED OUT OF 2,358 ON BOARD
He added that it is not a short span of time wherein a complete new generation has been grown and therefore the staunchness of our relationships have went beyond the limits of the normal state of historic, cultural and geographical relationships.
Afghanistan-Pakistan equally shared every hour of grief: Kausar
Nelson praised Sherman's staunchness warmly but criticized "the sheer stupidity of our Generals," Grant in particular, in allowing surprise and a near disaster.
Ulysses in his tent: Halleck, Grant, Sherman, and "the turning point of the war"
If, then, Gaulish Veriugodumnus, with Middle Welsh cyfiaw 'comradeship, yoking together' and gogyfiaw 'protection, support; guardian, keeper', here allow an emended form Voeomiugi or Ouokomiugoi 'firm comrades, loyal allies', we catch a glimpse of the staunchness and capacity for common action of an ancient Celtic people in the Scottish highlands; qualities amply shown, one might think, by their valour against Roman invaders.
Some Scottish names, including Vacomagi, Boresti, Iudanbyrig, Aberlessic and Dubuice
drought, windstorms, bee stings--beauty and staunchness of trees but
Shared and shifting land(scapes): making memoir and personal ecology in the pajarito journals of Peggy Pond Church
Korie adds, "You can't but admire Little Edie's courage, her staunchness, which is the word she uses.
Mommie queerest: three gay men have turned the cult documentary Grey Gardens--about a high-society mother and daughter reduced to living like hermits--into a stage musical. "It's just delicious,"
What mattered was staunchness: whether the work (and the worker) would hold.
The strategy of still life, or the politics of Georges Braque
Krauthammer uses most of his space dredging up Judaic reasons for promoting policies of Sharonist Israel with blind staunchness that deprives him of credibility.
LETTERS IN THE EDITOR'S MAILBAG
The strength of Elam's work is his use of a similar staunchness to examine the ways each particular play dramatizes the past as time, history, memory, and ritual, while he also considers Wilson's work as a process of chronological development.
Harry J. Elam, Jr. The Past as Present in the Drama of August Wilson
VJ `LEFTY' NICKERSON, trainer of top stakes winners Big Spruce, Spout and Staunchness and, for a time, the great John Henry, has died at his home in New York after a long illness, aged 75, writes Dan Farley.
`Lefty' Nickerson has died, aged 75

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