withstand
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Withstand it, and you might listen to “The Star-Spangled Banner” on the medal stand, as those four American men did.
From Washington Post • Jul. 26, 2021
Withstand ye, with perfect assurance, the flood of trials and calamities, through the power of His Highness, the Almighty.
From Tablets of Abdul-Baha Abbas by `Abdu'l-Bahá
"Withstand you?" echoed Garnache, frowning into the face of this fat man, who had risen also, brought to his feet by excitement.
From Saint Martin's Summer by Sabatini, Rafael
Withstand them to the face wherever they are to be blamed.
From The Whence and the Whither of Man A Brief History of His Origin and Development through Conformity to Environment; Being the Morse Lectures of 1895 by Tyler, John Mason
"Strengthened by faith, these rafters will Withstand the battering of the storm; This hearth, though all the world grow chill, Will keep us warm."
From Le Petit Nord or, Annals of a Labrador Harbour by Grenfell, Wilfred Thomason, Sir
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