If this be true, said Arthur, it were great shame unto mine estate but that he were mightily withstood.
For example, if the governments of Europe had not withstood the notorious Attila, he would not have left a single living man.
If any part of the royal forces resolutely withstood the invaders, would not that part soon have on its side the patriotic sympathy of millions?
It is only here that we have withstood the rush of the Southern army, and it is probable that we, too, would have gone had not night come to our help."
He begged for a glass of milk, after trying that green hued compound called coffee, and made his breakfast out of that and some hard crackers which seemed to have been imported into Ilium before the introduction of the iron horse, and to have withstood a ten years siege of regular boarders, Greeks and others.