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The trenchant blade Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself for lack Of somebody to hew and hack.
Samuel Butler
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   And there's a hand, my trusty fiere! And gie's a hand o'thine!

Robert Burns

— 1788  'Auld Lang Syne', stanza 5. This is the most familiar version of an older, traditional song, reworked by Burns.

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The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack.

Samuel Butler

— Hudibras, Part I, Canto I, line 359 (1663–1664).

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Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott, Ein'guteWehr und Waffen. A safe stronghold our God is still, A trusty shield and weapon.

Martin Luther

— 1529  Ein' feste Burg ist unser Gott (translated by Thomas Carlyle).

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If it falls to me to start a fight to cut out the cancer of bent and twisted journalism in our country with the simple sword of truth and the trusty shield of British fair play, so be it.

jonathan aitken

— Criticising press reports that he had violated the ministerial code of conduct; he later started a libel trial, which ended in his conviction for perjury.
— 10 April 1995; quoted in The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations, 3rd ed., 2007, p.6

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His ancient, trusty, drouthy crony:Tam lo'ed him like a vera brither—They had been fou for weeks thegither.

Robert Burns

— Line 43

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Her words are trusty heralds to her mind.


— Love's Sacrifice, Act I, sc. i. (1632?)

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He made one of Antipater's recommendation a judge; and perceiving afterwards that his hair and beard were coloured, he removed him, saying, "I could not think one that was faithless in his hair could be trusty in his deeds."

Plutarch

— 40 Philip. (Others)

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Her words are trusty heralds to her mind.


— Love's Sacrifice, Act I, sc. i. (1632?)

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The poorest of the sex have still an itch To know their fortunes, equal to the rich. The dairy-maid inquires, if she shall take The trusty tailor, and the cook forsake.

john dryden

— John Dryden, Sixth Satire of Juvenal, line 762.

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He made one of Antipater's recommendation a judge; and perceiving afterwards that his hair and beard were coloured, he removed him, saying, "I could not think one that was faithless in his hair could be trusty in his deeds."


— 40 Philip. (Others)

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" And further, we do, by these presents, for us, our heirs and successors, create, make, constitute, nominate and appoint our trusty and well beloved Eleazar Wheelock, doctor in divinity, the founder of said college, to be President of said Dartmouth College."


— Dartmouth College Charter, December 13th, 1769 before George III of Great Britain.

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trusty, dusky, vivid, true,
With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,
Steel-true and blade-straight,
The great artificer
Made my mate.

Robert Louis Stevenson

— Songs of Travel (published 1896), MyWife (1894).

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trusty, dusky, vivid, true,With eyes of gold and bramble-dew,Steel-true and blade-straight,The great artificerMade my mate.

Robert Louis Stevenson

— No. XXVI, My Wife.

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...my trusty Friends in Redmond...

paul dilascia

— 1995/10

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