The Ottomanisation of the Empire, the vision of its further extension, free from all consideration of subject peoples, was exactly the lure which was most likely to keep the Turks staunch to their Prussian masters.

The first Duke of Beaufort, the staunchest of Tories, was high in favour with Charles I, Charles II, and James II.

He that is so loose in so clear and so considerable a point of obedience to God, how can he be supposed staunch in regard to any other?

She was a Tweedside woman, as strong and staunch as an oak, and with a heart in her like Robert Bruce.

It might go for weeks without its festival; but there it was all the time, ready for any service, staunch for any trial.

No less earnest and staunch than his brother in his adherence to his principleshe ever figures as a peace-maker and enemy of bloodshed.

Nor could the ships working on the flank be adequately guarded against submarine attack, and some losses were experienced, the most important being the sinking of Monitor M15 and the destroyer Staunch by a submarine attack off Deir el Belah (nine miles south of Gaza) in November.