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a1530 T. Lupset Compend. Treat. Dyenge Well (1534) sig. A.ii It semeth not to wise men, that a promis shulde be sticked by, in as moche there maye chaunce greater causes to breke a promys.

1532 R. Whitford Pype or Tonne xxii. f. xcvii^v They fall nat onely vnto false erroures: but also vnto pleyne heresies, and so styfly done clyue and stycke by them.

1646 R. Baillie Let. 15 May (1841) II. 371 We shall be honest, and sticke by our Covenant... Hitherto we have stucke by our principles in many great and long tentations.

1648 R. J. Compunction xxxvi. 353 Men in love with their own opinions, will stick by them, lest they seem inconstant.

1759 A. Smith Theory Moral Sentiments iii. 308 There is no pedantry in sticking fast by the rules of justice.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) xx. 171 He knew what a savage determined man Osborne was, and how he stuck by his word.

1869 Ld. Tennyson Northern Farmer: New Style in Holy Grail & Other Poems 168 Thim's my noätions, Sammy, wheerby I means to stick.

1927 S. Lewis Elmer Gantry vi. 90 There's one galoot here that's got sense enough to stick by the Old Book and get himself right with God.

1955 Z. N. Hurston Let. 11 Aug. (2002) 740 Thems my sentiments and I am sticking by them.

1987 B. Duffy World as I found It (1990) 108 Wittgenstein was rather pleased with..whatever it was making him stick by his decision to remain in England over the vacations.

2009 Daily Tel. 22 Oct. 4/1 Last night, the Tories stuck by their commitment to scrap the act.

1533 J. Frith Bk. answeringe Mores Let. sig. I.5 As manie as doo eate of this sacrament do magnifie theyr god testifying that he onlie is the god allmightiy & they his people styckinge by him to be deliuered by his power from all danger.

1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 v. iii. 67 Sha. I thanke thee, the knaue will sticke by thee. View more context for this quotation

1716 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. i. 157 To stick to the last extremity by them who were so unanimously engaged in my cause.

1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1783 II. 432 The Stuarts had friends who stuck by them so late as 1745.

1852 W. M. Thackeray Henry Esmond III. x. 238 But Swift..had this merit of a faithful partisan, that he..stuck by Harley bravely in his fall.

1855 Harper's Mag. June 109/2 You, the only fellow who has stuck by me through thick and thin, for my own sake, I do believe, and not for my property.

1926 Amer. Mercury Mar. 335/2 I'm going to stick by you, girlie!

1962 Delta Democrat-Times (Greenville, Mississippi) 27 Dec. 5/5 I've stuck by him through one raunchy affair after another.

2005 GQ Sept. 245/1 While many of the club's biggest names jumped ship..Robinson stuck by his boyhood club.

1533 T. More Apologye xxxvi. 196 Wythout any greate hurte that afterwarde sholde stycke by them.

1628 W. Prynne Vnlouelinesse of Louelockes 52 This Beautie will sticke by vs, and continue with vs for all eternitie.

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 54 The remembrance of which will stick by me as long as I live. View more context for this quotation

1708 A. Pope Corr. 18 May (1956) I. 43 At present I am satisfy'd to triffle away my Time any way, rather than let it stick by me; as Shop-keepers are glad to be rid of those Goods [etc.].

1770 C. Jenner Placid Man I. i. vii. 42 Norris had met with some disappointment which stuck by him.

1857 J. T. Trowbridge Neighbor Jackwood xxviii. 333 I heerd one o' yer sarmons once;'t was on the uses o' the Sabbath; an' one thing you said in it hasstuck by me to this day.

1889 S. J. Lippincott in L. C. Holloway Woman's Story 303 I have let bigger things of the sort pass, and soon forgotten them; but this stuck by me.

1908 J. Webster Four-pools Myst. i. 9 He had received a more theoretical training in the University of New York, but I think it was his early education which stuck by him longest.

1970 R. Lynes Art-makers xi. 361 His was a way of seeing and of using chiaroscuro which stuck by Eakins and served him well.

2014 Z. la Grange Good Morning, Mr. Mandela (2015) viii. 206 Mrs Machel said: ‘Well done Zeldina, Madiba was really honoured tonight.’ Those words stuck by me.

1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Piiii^v And therfore if the other part sticke so harde by it [L. modo perstent], that the battell come to their handes, it is fought with great slaughter & bloodshed.

1797 C. M'Cormick Mem. Edmund Burke 287 Those..would stick by the king's loaf as long as a single cut of it remained.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. i. 23 On Friday, he stuck by the powdered beef and carrot, though there were..good spitchcock'd eels.

1829 W. Scott Anne of Geierstein II. i. 12 Have the peasant-clods..stuck by the flask till cock-crow?

1879 R. L. Stevenson in Cornhill Mag. Jan. 59 You mean to stick by your inn. Now I mean you shall come for a turn with me in my barouche; and before this bottle's empty, so you shall.

1950 Motor Boating Mar. 124/2 They seem to think they have to stick by the desk to ‘blue pencil’ such verbal wanderings as this.