She refused to go, stoutly declaring that "the princesses would never leave without me, and I wouldn't leave without the king, and the king will never leave".
His mother loves him ("If God has sent it," she stoutly declares, "I cannot turn the mite out") and so does his 9-year-old brother, Ned, an apprentice street urchin who becomes Arthur's chief companion and protector.
Detective Simon Ziele, the action hero in this series, is eager to point out that he has installed "the modern black and brass Strowger dial telephone" in his rooms, while his sleuthing partner, the criminologist Alistair Sinclair, stoutly declares his preference for the older, more expensive electric cabs over "the new, faster gasoline cabs".
Johnson stoutly declares that the Air Line's key, long-term purpose is to "support regeneration in East London," points out that TfL's outlay is being offset by £36m from the sponsors over a ten year stretch and - effortlessly setting aside his usual Euro-sceptic populism - £8m from the European Union.
There was a clash of claims, with Geldof maintaining that "Britain makes more money from fishing than any other E.U. country," while Farage, cleaving stoutly to the personal, declared his opponent to be "disgusting".
Farmers queuing for lunch at the state fair's aptly-named Iowa Pork Tent declared that they wanted the government out of their lives, yet stoutly defended subsidised crop insurance.
All the same, few of us have the wit -- or the aristocratic temerity -- to pick a number, like the great hostess and horsewoman Nancy Astor did, and stoutly stick with it, creating havoc as we go along: "I refuse to admit that I am more than 52," she declared, "even if that does make my sons illegitimate".
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