Usage examples for withstand
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She could not withstand his glance, so she retired a few more steps, only to find herself up with the wall. – The Puppet Crown by Harold MacGrath
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Thus made he Nobles coyned of record; In whose time was no nauie on the see That might withstand his maiestie. – The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation, v. 1, Northern Europe by Richard Hakluyt
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When the whole were collected together, we felt proud of our fine force, which we vainly imagined nothing we should have to encounter could withstand for a moment: but the battle is not always to the strong; and we were shortly after painfully reminded of this truth. – Twenty-Five Years in the Rifle Brigade by William Surtees