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c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) l. 745 At is mouþ fif toskes stoden out, Euerich was fif enches about.

1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus ii. i. sig. Hij^v My chynne standynge out lyke as aged folkes lyppes do, that be totheles.

a1648 Ld. Herbert Life (1976) 51 The Peer of Dover which stands out in the Sea.

1680 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises I. xi. 202 The Work..is required to stand out free from the outer Flat of the Cheeks of the Coller.

1743 R. Blair Grave 16 Oh! how his Eyes stand out, and stare full ghastly!

1890 W. C. Russell Ocean Trag. I. i. 6 The veins stood out like whipcord.

1999 C. Mendelson Home Comforts lx. 709/2 Safety ladders..should be made of metal and constructed in such a way that the steps stand out from the wall.

1824 Effigies Poeticæ I. 13 James, no doubt, stood out from his age as a graceful poet; but we cannot altogether subscribe to the opinion of his countrymen with respect to his merit.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §6. 518 John Pym..stands out for all after time as the embodiment of law.

1929 Yale Law Jrnl. 38 571 Where such voting rights exist,..this privilege stands out as one of the few remaining forms of shareholder control.

2021 A. G. Constantinou Applied Res. on Policing for Police viii. 106 What really stands out is the fact that one way or another all personnel working at police stations are kept busy.

1835 London Lit. Gaz. 3 Jan. 6/1 Individual characters are cleverly drawn; and Mourteen Maher, the mayor himself, is a whole-length portrait, which stands out well from the canvass.

1856 G. J. Whyte-Melville Kate Coventry ix. 110 Lucy's white face stood out in the lamp-light.

1926 Amer. Mercury Mar. 322/2 He stands out like a sequoia amidst sagebrush—a scholar alone in a mob of Mormon bishops, tank-town annotators and hicks.

1987 N. Spinrad Little Heroes (1989) 199 Glorianna O'Toole stood out against the backdrop of the brilliant pixels of the shimmering cityscape, outlined in their kirilian aura, her hair blowing in the wind.

1911 Macon (Missouri) Times-Democrat 7 Dec. (advt.) 2/5 Critically correct style stands them [sc. the garments] out from and above the multitude of so-called fashionable affairs.

2020 Nigerian Tribune (Nexis) 11 Nov. We have seen him throughout his life as a voice on the side of progress and that was what stood him out.

2021 Sun (Nigeria) (Nexis) 13 Jan. His wealth of experience in the private sector stood him out from his rivals.

?1496 Abbaye Holy Ghost sig. aiv Yf thyse shall be reysyd vp to y^e worshyp of god: they must stonde out fro worldly noyse [c1440 Thornton be owte ofe worldly noyse]. fro worldly besynesse & angre.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres 56 The breadth or front thereof shall be found by deuiding the 5000 men by 46 the length of the battell, and there will come 108 men in ranke for breadth of the battell, and 32 men remaining, the which 32 men shall stand out of the battell.

1616 B. Jonson Epicœne i. i, in Wks. I. 533 Trv...mary the Chimney-sweepers will not be drawne in. Cle. No, nor the Broome-men: They stand out stiffely. View more context for this quotation

1671 T. Shadwell Humorists v I am resolved to play at a small game, rather than stand out.

1690 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) II. 6 Dr. Timothy Hall, bishop of Oxon., has lately taken the oathes to their majesties, which he has stood out from doeing till the utmost time was come.

1890 Field 10 May 673/1 The captain and the secretary stood out on this occasion, but arranged twelve Seniors a-side.

1893 National Observer 7 Oct. 535/2 The ladies proposed a dance..The Captain himself stood out.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 285 Another honest Burgesse stood out and sayde, I will keepe company with my Gossyp Eustace.

1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre viii. 499 Pisander, at this great opposition and querimony, stood out, and going amongst them, tooke out one by one those that were against it [sc. the ambassadors' proposition].

1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison I. xiv. 86 To stand out to receive..the first motions to an address of this awful nature.

1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. iii. 51 Stand out, and tell us who you are, creeping along there under the boughs.

1892 Graphic 17 Dec. 743/3 The master prefers..to order the wrongdoer to ‘stand out’.

2020 Irish Independent (Nexis) 29 Sept. 23 Rising to the challenge, I stood out into the aisle with my feet apart.

1813 Caledonian Mercury 13 Mar. It was agreed to strike work… Considerable sums of money were raised in order to support those who stood out.

1926 Citizen (Gloucester) 1 Oct. 6/4 The Notts miners' leader..said if he could see any chance of the men winning by standing out he would readily tell them so.

1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians x. f. 75^v Let vs not sticke too arme our selues too the battell, and too stande out agaynst them too the vttermost.

1601 Bp. W. Barlow Serm. Paules Crosse Martij 1600 37 Nor will I mention his oft standing out with her if he were thwarted.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia p. vii The Mountains in all Conquests the last that stand out.

1708 S. Ockley Conquest of Syria 271 Knowing very well how hard it would go with them if they should stand it out obstinately to the last, and be taken by Storm.

1879 M. J. Guest Lect. Hist. Eng. xxviii. 287 The Commons threw away their humility, and stood out boldly.

1887 G. R. Sims Mary Jane's Mem. 296 I have had to stand out with my editor once or twice on that..point.

1928 Weekly Irish Times 18 Feb. 2/3 We stood it out for a while, but we lost money hand over hand trying to compete with Livesey's.

2006 Times (Nexis) 22 Nov. 7 Mordor is obviously Nazi Germany. So does that make Gondor, the last kingdom to stand out against him, Britain?

?c1576 Song of Rid Square xxxvi in W. T. Ritchie Bannatyne MS (1934) I. 96 None stoutlier stood out for their laird Nor did the lads of liddisdail.

1633 Bp. J. Hall Plaine Explic. Hard Texts i. 530 When Ahaz..was in distresse, he sends to Tiglath Pileser, that should stand out for him.

1716 Flying Post 3–5 Jan. The only Place that stood out for the King, was the House of Colloden.

1891 Chambers's Jrnl. 19 Sept. 593/2 He has not grit enough to stand out for justice and honesty.

1907 A. Fortescue Orthodox Eastern Church iv. x. 278 Poor Patriarch!.. Shall he denounce Philetism, stand out for the old rights of the hierarchy and of the chief sees, preach unity and ancient councils?

2013 Daily Trust (Abuja) (Nexis) 22 Feb. This bastardisation of Sarauta is a series of four self-inflicted wounds. The first is its failure to stand out for justice for non-Muslims under its care.

1606 T. Heywood 2nd Pt. If you know not Me sig. A3 Gresh. Merry, tell me knaue, Dost not thou think that three score thousand pounds, Would make an honest Marchant try his friends? Fact. Yes, by my faith sir, but you haue a friend Would not see you stand out for twise the summe.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. xii. 114 He always stands out and higgles.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. ix. 235 ‘If the secret were mine,’ said the mendicant, ‘I wad stand out for a half.’

1889 H. R. Haggard Col. Quaritch xliii. 325 I am not going to stand out about the price.

1924 Weekly Irish Times 12 Jan. 7/3 The rate of wages..at one period was 26s. 6d. less than that for which the Dublin workers stood out.

2010 Herald Sun (Australia) (Nexis) 15 Sept. 82 Tuddenham had been the victim of his own political battle during the summer of 1969-70 when he and Thompson stood out for better contracts.

1600 P. Holland tr. Florus Breviaries xxxiii. in tr. Livy Rom. Hist. 836 As many as could make meanes to flie more readily and easily away, never stood out the triall of a battaile, but returned home.

1676 H. Phillippes Purchasers Pattern 18 Houses..many times cannot well stand out a long Lease.

1731 Flying Post 14 Dec. If I had been one of those Masters of his, I would no more have stood out the Tryal than I would..have clapt my own Farce in the Pit, while nothing but Hisses and Catcalls were heard.

1821 W. Scott Kenilworth I. vii. 185 It is a sun-burnt beauty,..well qualified to stand out rain and wind.

1855 F. Nightingale in Sir E. Cook Life F. Nightingale (1913) I. 283 I am ready to stand out the War with any man.

2014 Itar-Tass (Nexis) 12 Mar. Konyukhov's Tugroyak rowboat has stood out the storm, driven hither and thither.

1840 R. H. Dana Two Years before Mast vii. 51 We were then divided into three watches, and thus stood out the remainder of the night.

1890 C. Smith Riddle Lawrence Haviland II. iii. iv. 90 He propped himself in an angle of the doorway, and prepared to stand out the performance.

1913 Daily Tel. (Sydney) 20 Oct. (Second ed.) 11/4 Thanks are specially due to the members of the theatrical profession for their unselfish and generous efforts; many of them stood out the whole long day and attended their performances at night.

2014 @nisemontalvo 23 Sept. in twitter.com (accessed 30 Nov. 2021) She was going to be on Good Morning America. And I literally stood the night out on the streets of NY.

1653 R. Carpenter Anabaptist Washt lviii. 220 We are not driven to take Sanctuary at the Terms of the Summulists: and stand it out, that other children in the rigour of Speaking, are such.

1664 H. More Modest Enq. Myst. Iniquity i. xiii. 42 They..will stand it out as stoutly for their justification, as these professors of Christianity that they are no Idolaters.

1726 G. Berkeley Let. 19 July in A. C. Fraser Life & Lett. Berkeley (1871) iv. 129 The latter still stands out, that she never received..any of Mrs. Mary's money.

1863 E. C. Gaskell Sylvia's Lovers III. x. 168 It were only yesterday at e'en she were standing out that he liked her better than you.

1899 W. Besant Orange Girl ii. xii. 262 He..stoutly stood it out that he was a gentleman of Cumberland.

1806 Assembly's Missionary Mag. Mar. 128 Perhaps you will stand me out, that you have known some such instances of these sorts of impressions being fulfilled.

1895 A. A. Leith Plant of Lemon Verbena v. 105 He tried t' stand me out 'twas a white caaf or a cow I'd zeen.

1895 J. Barlow Strangers at Lisconnel ii. 26 I question would any raisonable body stand me out I don't own her be rights.

1951 Alexandra (Victoria, Austral.) Standard 31 Aug. Mary Jane Wilkes..stood me out that ideals was a new brass polish, an' she'd seen a long advertisement of it in the paper that mornin'.