The treaty contained a clause by which Charles was bound to declare himself a Catholic, and with the knowledge of this Ashley, as a stanch Protestant, could not be trusted: In order to blind him and the other Protestant members of the Cabal a sham treaty was arranged in which this clause did not appear, and it was not until a considerable while afterwards that he found out that he had been duped. [Please select]
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The queen required a protector, whom she found, not in the feeble Darnley, nor in any of the leaders of the factions, but in the strong, determined earl who had ever been a stanch supporter of the throne against the Protestant party and English influence. [Please select]
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Then, pressing her own beautiful face on her lover's wound to stanch the flowing blood, she lavished upon him all the endearing names which she had bestowed on their love. [Please select]
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The ship is stanch and sound. [Please select]
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He was trying to stanch the flow when the chimes of a clock pealed down the wind from somewhere ahead and upon his right. [Please select]
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"I was physician enough to know that, unless the wounds of his bleeding honour were stanched, the days of his life must be few." [Please select]
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