In Saint Stylites, the famous Christian hermit of old times, who built him a lofty stone pillar in the desert and spent the whole latter portion of his life on its summit, hoisting his food from the ground with a tackle; in him we have a remarkable instance of a dauntless stander-of-mast-heads; who was not to be driven from his place by fogs or frosts, rain, hail, or sleet; but valiantly facing everything out to the last, literally died at his post. [Please select]
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Stander, a morphine fiend, suffering excruciating agonies. [Please select]
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Stander, and go-between for the house and the police. [Please select]
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A hopeless task--for Kitty's personality was of the kind which absorbs, engulfs attention, do what the by-stander will. [Please select]
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He is an indefatigable stander, if I may coin the word, and on horseback he can apparently spend the day and night without inconvenience. [Please select]
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Some lines written on Sir Walter's death thus finish:-- "I saw in every stander-by Pale death; life only in thine eye." [Please select]
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It was an effect as of something over-living, over-brilliant--an animation, an intensity, so strong that, at first beholding, a by-stander could scarcely tell whether it pleased him or no. [Please select]
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