Not fickle

Usage examples of staunch.

When he got discouraged, Marcie was his staunchest supporter and cheerleader.

And yet, through all of it, he was ever better inspired by the grasp of a common soldier, who had served with Carignan-Salieres, or by the greeting and gossip of such woodsmen as Du Lhut, Mantet, La Durantaye, and, most of all, his staunch friend Perrot, chief of the coureurs du bois.

SOME DOUBTS Babu Janakdhari Prasad was a staunch coworker with me in Champaran.

His name was Draferth and, unusually for the Outer Moot, he was a staunch and raucous member of the Strivers Faction.

In memory of the staunch churchmanship of this great and good man, his widow had presented a complete set of altar fittings and altar plate to the parish church, which was then doing its best with antique but uncorresponding paten and chalice.

Across from where I stood, nestled in a protecting bulwark formed by the massive trunks of two fallen trees, battled the last remnant of Legio Valeria Victrix, staunch beneath the much-battered golden boar.

Barrow, the anxious wife of the confidential clerk to Major Vinton, the staunch Union officer in charge of the pay and quartermaster services.

As one of the two Joint Commanders of ESComm, he had earned the gratitude of the Aristos, who wished to conquer human-settled space, and the dread of the Skolians, who sought to staunch the near-fatal wound his armies had dealt their civilization.

British sailor remained on the floor striving to staunch the blood that spurted from a bullet wound in his leg, while near at hand lay a French bluejacket, as white and motionless as though dead.

So miserable was my life rendered by these continued attacks that I was often obliged to lock myself up for days together, never seeing any person save my man Samuel Scrape, who was a very honest blunt fellow, a staunch Cameronian, but withal very little conversant in religious matters.

Although Judge Dee as a staunch Confucianist had little sympathy for the Buddhist creed, he had to admit that the small abbot was a remarkable personality, and had great dignity.

Lady Lufton, who was very staunch, did not like this, and would say of Miss Dunstable that it was impossible to serve both God and Mammon.

Katherine was shrunk back into the far corner and Herm was trying to staunch a flow of blood from his left shoulder.

He would twit her with Jacobinical opinions and quote her sayings in company--sometimes jocularly, sometimes ruefully, for he himself posed as a staunch Government man.

HAD HIS HAND clamped over his face, trying to staunch his nosebleed when cries from the crowd of norms below caught his attention-not cries of pleasure at his pain and suffering, but cries of terror.