अमेरिका में अंग्रेजी उपनिवेशवादी; प्लाईमाउथ कॉलोनी के शुरुआती दिनों में तीर्थयात्रियों के नेता (1584-1656)

standish's Usage Examples:

On Captain's Hill is the Standish Monument (begun in 1872), a circular tower, on an octagonal base, of rough Hallowell granite, surmounted by a statue of Miles Standish, 124 ft.

Duxbury is a summer resort, with a large hotel at Standish Shore.

Men so moved so to act could hardly be commonplace; and so among them we find characters strong and marked, with equal ability to rule and to obey, as William Bradford (1590-1657) and Brewster, Edward Winslow (1595-1655) and Miles Standish (1584-1656), John Winthrop (1588-1649) and Dr Samuel Fuller, and men so inflexible in their love of liberty and faith in man as Roger Williams and young Harry Vane.

From it have been transferred to the fireproof building of the Registry of Deeds many interesting historical documents, among them the records of the Plymouth colony, the will of Myles Standish, and the original patent.

Pilgrim Hall, a large stone building erected by the Pilgrim Society (formed in Plymouth in 1820 as the successor of the Old Colony Club, founded in 1769) in 1824 and remodelled in 1880, is rich in relics of the Pilgrims and of early colonial times, and contains a portrait of Edward Winslow (the only extant portrait of a "Mayflower" passenger), and others of later worthies, and paintings, illustrating the history of the Pilgrims; the hall library contains many old and valuable books and manuscripts - including Governor Bradford's Bible, a copy of Eliot's Indian Bible, and the patent of 1621 from the Council for New England - and Captain Myles Standish's sword.

Standish grabbed Sarah's chin.

Sarah growled and jerked her face away.  Standish laughed, Still as feisty as ever.

He understood her anxiety stemmed mostly from worrying Connor would leave like Standish had.

He is not Peter Standish.

She did get permission to turn a human once, Peter Standish.

standish's Meaning':

English colonist in America; leader of the Pilgrims in the early days of the Plymouth Colony (1584-1656