Celestine had been born Maggie O'Toole, a name which Mrs. Pett stoutly refused to countenance in any maid of hers.

Towneley came from a Catholic family which stoutly refused to conform to the Protestant Church and was thus excluded both from public office and from English universities.

Dupres stoutly refuses to give up the Chinese soldiers hidden in the attic of the Girls College.

These two sat together, apart from the others, stoutly refusing to talk with anyone except to supply their names, ranks, and DNA samples.

Mrs. Thomas stoutly refused to admit the stranger without evidence of identity, and Beatrice, embracing his cause, as stoutly pressed his claims.

It was an uncompromising little den which, in keeping with the rest of the house, stoutly refused to make up for its lack of charm.

The still-fastened bowline came taut and creaked from the tremendous stress placed on it by the backing vessel and stoutly refused to snap.

If you're wondering where he is now," I laughed, "he's half a day south stoutly refusing to join me.

"If you cannot break your most handsome girl of this mad notion, or coax her from it, then you must stoutly refuse e'en her least request in that direction."

And almost every nation in the world stoutly refused to release any data about its own territory.