12 collocations for stanched

The place was slowly bleeding to death, and I had a mind to try and stanch its wounds.

But, in that moment, came Benedict of Bourne and leapt betwixt and took the blow upon his cheek, and, stanching the blood within his tattered war-cloak, cried: 'Lord Duke, because I love thee, ne'er shalt thou do this thing until thou first slay me!'

He lay with his eyes closed while I strove to stanch the flow.

"I can then do one rightful act before I die," he said, raising himself on one hand, and holding the other forcibly to his side, so as to stanch in some degree the effusion of blood.

Blanched from loss of blood before I could tie the vessel and stanch the bleeding, his leg suspended in our improvised splints, and on his way to make a splendid recovery.

While Leonard stood stupefied and confounded at what had occurred, and Isabella, uttering a loud cry, threw herself upon the body and tried to stanch the woundtwo men, with halberds in their hands rushed forward, and seizing Thirlby, cried, "We arrest you as a murderer!" Thirlby, who seemed utterly overcome by surprise and horror, offered no resistance.

In Ireland, Fleetwood knew not how to reconcile the conduct of his father-in-law with his own principles, and expressed a wish to resign the government of the island; Ludlow and Jones, both stanch republicans, looked on the protector as a hypocrite and an apostate, and though the latter was more cautious in his language, the [Footnote 1: Thurloe, ii. 406.

Kneeling upon his knees in the hellish darkness, he tried to stanch that ruddy stream.

They are old friends, though he is as stanch a Whig as she a Tory.

"You are right, Mr. Heywood," he said, stanching his lips, in icy composure.

The servants are stanch Catholics and long for a monarchy again.

In the midst of the din came the feebler, but stanch cheer of the Winnebagos.

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