“A youth crouches on a stanchion under York's new Millennium Bridge - some 15 feet above the bank and the swirling waters of the River Ouse.”

“He saw his son Kit more than once or twice in those days, and Kit appeared to be the stancher patriot of the two.”

“We had learned to understand each other well, and no man ever had a stancher comrade than I had in Mishka Pavloff.”

“The wish was only increased when the first Maid of the Mist was superseded by the new and stancher one.”