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Now I was afraid this incident might turn my only stalwart supporter against me.† (source)
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Stalwart, you'd say.† (source)
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There on the front steps still stands Pavel Ivanovich in his greatcoat looking as stalwart as ever (though his hip now gives him some trouble on foggy afternoons).† (source)
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It was Ritchie, that chat-room stalwart, who had come to my aid in the end.† (source)
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His stomach had never been particularly stalwart.† (source)
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A stalwart boy, Ser Kevan Lannister's son, nephew to Lord Tywin and cousin to the queen.† (source)
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I sold heavily altered or outright reconstructed pieces as original; if—out of the dim light of Hobart and Blackwell—the collector got the piece home and noticed something amiss ("always carry a pocket light with you," Hobie had counselled me, early in the game; "there's a reason so many antique shops are dark") then I —grieved at the mix-up, while stalwart in my conviction that the piece was genuine—gallantly offered to buy it back at ten percent more than the collector had paid, under the conditions and terms of an ordinary sale.† (source)
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But these Paul Farmers, they'll drop out, and when they do, we stalwarts will still be here figuring out the best way to spend two dollars and twenty-seven cents per capita for health care.'† (source)
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In his tall stalwartness Adam Bede was a Saxon, and justified his name; but the jet-black hair, made the more noticeable by its contrast with the light paper cap, and the keen glance of the dark eyes that shone from under strongly marked, prominent and mobile eyebrows, indicated a mixture of Celtic blood.† (source)standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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Someone suggested getting Dr. Dolder; if the doctor unlocked the car, the stalwart vehicle could be rolled, if not driven, to the head of the broad and sweeping marble stairway.† (source)
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And a leading Federalist wrote with glee to the Washington party stalwarts, "He walks into State Street at the usual hour but seems totally unknown."† (source)
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I reckon he was wondering which one Father had him pegged for, brute ox or stalwart heathen.† (source)
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The overthrow of Cannonism, although welcomed in Nebraska by all but a few party stalwarts, had nevertheless required tremendous courage and leadership on the part of a young Congress-man attacking his party's well-entrenched leaders and willing to sacrifice the comforts and alliances that party loyalty brings.† (source)
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"Not exactly stalwart, are you?" he said.† (source)
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Henry Knox and Benjamin Lincoln, two stalwarts of 1776 and now of formidable political importance, came to talk.† (source)
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Years of letter-perfect performance, as many years of stalwart Party membership.† (source)
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