| And when I rushed back into the room, there was Raffles sitting cross-legged on the floor, and slowly shaking his broken head as he stanched the blood. |
| He saw an old man suffering and dying, and he stooped and felt of his wounds and stanched the flow of blood. |
| If the flow is quickly stanched, things may get back to normal, and the respect that the engineers will surely win might even slightly brighten the oil industry's reputation. |
| Miss Lavinia stanched the flowing blood with her handkerchief. |
| He invented a new application by which blood might be stanched. |
| But for spreads to contract it will first have to convince markets that the bleeding in its banks has been stanched. |
