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  • The guards, too, treated the common criminals with a certain forbearance, even when they had to handle them roughly.   (source)
    forbearance = patience or self-control
  • Sutpen never raised his voice at them, that instead he led them, caught them at the psychological instant by example, by some ascendancy of forbearance rather than by brute fear.   (source)
    forbearance = refraining (holding back) from acting  OR  patience, tolerance, or self-control
  • It was the cherished belief of each that he did more than his share of the work, and neither forbore to speak this belief at every opportunity.   (source)
    forbore = refrained (held back) from acting
  • I counsel you by way of caution to forbear from crossing the moor in those dark hours when the powers of evil are exalted.   (source)
    forbear = refrain (hold back)
  • We are to be tested in our patience, our forbearance, our perseverance, our power to endure wrong...   (source)
    forbearance = patience, tolerance, or self-control
  • He was always gentle and forbearing, no matter how dull I might be, and believe me, my stupidity would often have exhausted the patience of Job.   (source)
    forbearing = patient
  • His looks were not quite friendly, and I was so revolted at these constant changes that I could not forbear whispering, "So you've changed sides again."   (source)
    forbear = refrain (hold back) from acting
  • I forbore, for the moment, to analyze this description further...   (source)
    forbore = refrained (held back) from acting
  • ...he could not forbear to stare,   (source)
    forbear = refrain (hold back) from acting
  • He believed he had taxed the forbearance of the powers above to the extremity   (source)
    forbearance = tolerance
  • ...and he seems to have felt pity for her, and forbearance towards her.   (source)
    forbearance = patience or tolerance
  • He boasted much of the forbearance he had exercised towards me, and reminded me that there was a limit to his patience.   (source)
    forbearance = tolerance
  • I pressed it, and, satisfied with the discovery, forbore to upraise the sash.   (source)
    forbore = refrained (held back from acting)
  • he listened to all their impertinence with the most forbearing courtesy.   (source)
    forbearing = patient and tolerant
  • I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others   (source)
    forbear = refrain (hold back)
  • For fear of him the blissful gods forbore to manacle Zeus.   (source)
    forbore = refrained (held back)
  • The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence were all my business.†   (source)
  • He acted forbearing even when aggrieved.†   (source)
  • WE HAVE TOO LONG SHOWN OUR FORBEARANCE AND LONG-SUFFERING….†   (source)
  • He begged their forbearance for his lengthy absences from the Wilmette house.†   (source)
  • And though his face does not enthrall Pari as Julien's had, it is a far kinder face and, as Pari will learn before long, an external ambassador for the attentiveness, the quiet forbearance, and the enduring decency that resides within Eric.†   (source)
  • None of the guests were foolish enough to test her forbearance.†   (source)
  • He sat for some time silent, with introverted gaze, Johnnie with difficulty restraining her impatience, forbearing to break in upon his meditation.†   (source)
  • And I think a man's ability to act in opposition to his tendencies in this direction can be a source of virtue, a statement of his character and forbearance.†   (source)
  • The remarkable thing, given the decades of thievery and ruination of the Pimas, is the legacy of dignity and forbearance that prevails amid their exploited culture.†   (source)
  • Milo shook his head with weary forbearance.†   (source)
  • We have too long shown our forbearance and long-suffering….†   (source)
  • But the residents of Novgorod were not British-forbearance gave way to mass hysteria, concern for all became survival for Snapping on the jeep's searchlight, Bourne drove in sudden spurts down alleyways and the less crowded narrow streets-south, always south.†   (source)
  • I held my tongue and forbore from saying that the cure for his malady was a little continence, for I wanted his help that day, and I would be hard pressed to get it if I angered him.†   (source)
  • For Lord Tywin and the Lannisters you always had the forbearance of Baelor the Blessed, but for your own blood, none.†   (source)
  • She squeezed his hand, and he forbore to argue with her.†   (source)
  • It renewed their appetite and rewarded their forbearance.†   (source)
  • Therefore, each will have an interest in this reciprocal forbearance.†   (source)
  • I am certain that my father—so ordinarily mild and forbearing—said something harsh, scathing.†   (source)
  • She forbore to say.†   (source)
  • Noting in his diary that "the qualities of mind most peculiarly called for are firmness, perseverance, patience, coolness and forbearance," John Quincy Adams, like any Puritan gentleman, set out for Washington determined to meet the standards of self-discipline which he had imposed upon himself.†   (source)
  • He presented to us in his sermon a man whom none of us had ever seen—a man thoughtful, patient, and forbearing, a Christian inspiration to all who knew him, and a model for his children.†   (source)
  • When her cooking experiments were over—which the native Samson watched with an air of polite forbearance—she settled down on the bed with a handbook on kitchen kaffir.†   (source)
  • She really liked and admired Emily; and, as the elder woman and the hostess, she set an example of forbearance and good humor.   (source)
  • ...there are some traits in her character which make it difficult for me to speak of her with the forbearance I could wish.   (source)
  • As neither can CONTROL the other, each will have an obvious and sensible interest in this reciprocal forbearance.   (source)
  • It was rightly guessed that I could not forbear to redeem the Arkenstone, the treasure of my house.   (source)
    forbear = refrain (hold back)
  • But in charity forbear to say 'I' mentioned it, for 'tis death to speak of it, they say.   (source)
    forbear = refrain (hold back) from
  • "Well, well," said he, "we must bear and forbear."   (source)
    forbear = refrain (hold back) from acting
  • If ... you appeal to my forbearance, and the mercy of those you have deeply injured, ...   (source)
    forbearance = tolerance (to hold back from acting)
  • Starbuck grasped Ahab by the arm--"God, God is against thee, old man; forbear!"   (source)
    forbear = refrain
  • give them all hints of the forbearance necessary between such near neighbours   (source)
    forbearance = patience, tolerance, or self-control
  • He had been fond of believing, from the uncommon forbearance of the savages, that he was reserved as a prisoner to be delivered to Montcalm.   (source)
    forbearance = restraint
  • "You must have great patience," said Arthur Clennam, looking at him with some wonder, "great forbearance."   (source)
    forbearance = patience, tolerance, or self-control
  • The common welfare was my business; charity, mercy, forbearance, and benevolence, were, all, my business.   (source)
    forbearance = good natured tolerance and restraint
  • Edmund saw weariness and distress in her face, and immediately resolved to forbear all farther discussion; and not even to mention the name of Crawford again, except as it might be connected with what must be agreeable to her.   (source)
    forbear = refrain from
  • Her sensibilities, I suspect, are strong--and her temper excellent in its power of forbearance, patience, self-control; but it wants openness.   (source)
    forbearance = patience, tolerance, or self-control
  •   "If he be like to die, he had better do it, and
    decrease the surplus population."
      Scrooge hung his head to hear his own words quoted by
    the Spirit, and was overcome with penitence and grief.
      "Man," said the Ghost, "if man you be in heart, not adamant, forbear that wicked cant until you have discovered What the surplus is, and Where it is."   (source)
    forbear = stop
  • The forbearance of her family on a point, respecting which she could be in no doubt of their wishes, might be their surest means of forwarding it.   (source)
    forbearance = refraining
  • He pressed for the strictest forbearance and silence towards their niece; she not only promised, but did observe it.   (source)
    forbearance = restraint
  • Fanny could have said a great deal, but it was safer to say nothing... Miss Crawford's kind opinion of herself deserved at least a grateful forbearance, and...   (source)
    forbearance = refraining
  • Her temper he had good reason to depend on and to praise. He had often seen it tried. Was there one of the family, excepting Edmund, who had not in some way or other continually exercised her patience and forbearance?   (source)
    forbearance = restraint or self-control
  • …and it needed all the felicity of being again at home, and all the forbearance it could supply, to save Sir Thomas from anger on finding himself thus bewildered in his own house, making part of a ridiculous exhibition in the midst of theatrical nonsense…   (source)
    forbearance = patience or tolerance
  • More was not expected by one who, while seeing all the obligation and expediency of submission and forbearance, saw also with sympathetic acuteness of feeling all that must be hourly grating to a girl like Susan.   (source)
    forbearance = restraint
  • …in the picture she had been forming of a future Thornton, to shut out the church, sink the clergyman, and see only the respectable, elegant, modernised, and occasional residence of a man of independent fortune, was considering Sir Thomas, with decided ill-will, as the destroyer of all this, and suffering the more from that involuntary forbearance which his character and manner commanded, and from not daring to relieve herself by a single attempt at throwing ridicule on his cause.   (source)
  • Her uncle's kind expressions, however, and forbearing manner, were sensibly felt; and when she considered how much of the truth was unknown to him, she believed she had no right to wonder at the line of conduct he pursued.   (source)
    forbearing = patient
  • Fanny would rather have been silent; but being obliged to speak, she could not forbear, in justice to the aunt she loved best, from saying something in which the words "my aunt Norris" were distinguishable.   (source)
    forbear = refrain
  • Now, when she knew better how to be useful, and how to forbear, and when her mother could be no longer occupied by the incessant demands of a house full of little children, there would be leisure and inclination for every comfort, and they should soon be what mother and daughter ought to be to each other.   (source)
    forbear = practice self-restraint
  • What do people here know but forbearance?†   (source)
  • "You have always presumed on my forbearance," Stannis warned Davos when they were alone.†   (source)
  • She had been pinching his ear for as long as he could remember, but today she forbore.†   (source)
  • "I mean," said the Blackfish, "that you owe His Grace your thanks for his forbearance.†   (source)
  • Johnnie wisely forbore reply or interference of any sort.†   (source)
  • Johnnie nodded in answer to these inquiries, forbearing to go into any details.†   (source)
  • My night-blooming ccreus throwed a flower tonight, and I couldn't forbear to bring you it.†   (source)
  • ; the gentle paterfamilias, usually so forbearing, has turned cross as a skunk.†   (source)
  • They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been-had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not.†   (source)
  • They rode for miles, going slow and careful, dismounting to lead the horses over treacherous ground, letting the good-forbear-bait hounds sniff at every bush.†   (source)
  • Moreover, Rialla's somewhat odd behavior, combined with a number of inexplicable gaps in her memory, Galbatorix's forbearance, and Murtagh's continued silence—for she could not bring herself to believe that he would break his word to her—convinced her, as outlandish as it seemed, that Rialla was an apparition and that time was no longer what it seemed.†   (source)
  • I dread the consequences of this dissimilitude of character, and without the utmost caution on both sides, and the most considerate forbearance with one another and prudent condescension on both sides, they will certainly be fatal.†   (source)
  • But even though I would not harm you, that does not mean the rest of the Ingeitum would be so forbearing.†   (source)
  • You mistake patience for forbearance.†   (source)
  • An attack by Howe on Dorchester Heights had been his "utmost wish," and he could "scarce forbear lamenting the disappointment" he felt.†   (source)
  • As I hurried down the street toward the subway I could hear above his feeble peeping protests the hoarsely gravelly female voice still yakking furiously, yet dying away behind me with an undertone of patient forbearance that told me that Moishe would hardly get thrown out of the Pink Palace.†   (source)
  • Therefore, if the honored Commandant would have the forbearance (Sophie continued to read), the schedule of delivery would necessarily be altered in the following manner— But Hoss broke in suddenly, fiercely impatient, lighting a cigarette from another in his fingers, coughing his croupy cough as he blurted out a hoarse "Enough!"†   (source)
  • "Hedge-pig," said the Wart remorselessly, "forbear to whine, neither thrice nor once."†   (source)
  • She forbore to say anything as she looked at the two sheets but Ashley read her face.†   (source)
  • He sees himself offer as a sop fortitude and forbearance and dignity, making it appear that he resigned his pulpit for a martyr's reasons, when at the very instant there was within him a leaping and triumphant surge of denial behind a face which had betrayed him, believing itself safe behind the lifted hymnbook, when the photographer pressed his bulb.†   (source)
  • Then Wang Lung thanked him, but he forbore to say what was in his heart, that for his son there must be one far higher than the daughter of such an one as Ching, who although a good man was, besides that, only a common farmer on another's land.†   (source)
  • That, clearly, was a much healthier spirit, and even Mallinson, little as he sympathized with foreign missions, could not forbear his admiration.†   (source)
  • She had the easily stirred passions of her Irish father and nothing except the thinnest veneer of her mother's unselfish and forbearing nature.†   (source)
  • So she swooped down on him like a sparrow hawk, and when he was aware of her and knew her to be Maymunah, the daughter of the king of the Jinn, he was sore afraid, and his side muscles quivered, and he implored her to forbear.†   (source)
  • Then he saw that they were but children trying to take their mother's place and not able to do it, and he forbore and after that he saw to the poor fool himself night and morning.†   (source)
  • …to rise from beneath the iron heel of a tyrant oppressor, when the very future of the South as a place bearable for our women and children to live in depends on the labor of our own hands, when the tools which we have to use, to depend on, are the pride and integrity and forbearance of black men and the pride and integrity and forbearance of white; that you, I say, a white man a white—' and your grandfather trying to reach him, stop him, trying to push through the crowd, saying, Jim.†   (source)
  • This worked great hardship and strained the tact and forbearance of the unrelated half of the town, for the India-Melanie feud made a rupture in practically every social organization.†   (source)
  • In this connection I cannot forbear relating my first experience with a boarding sea.†   (source)
  • There was a sort of scornful forbearance in the woman's tone that made Paul know she was mollified.†   (source)
  • One of my hungry and forbearing friends was sounding in the bows just below me.†   (source)
  • He saw that she was preoccupied, and forbore to question her.†   (source)
  • It was beautiful to live in grace a life of peace and virtue and forbearance with others.†   (source)
  • We must just bear and forbear, man Alan.†   (source)
  • Peace! and forbear to worsen our chances with dangerous speech.†   (source)
  • The unhappy being forbore to approach us and offer his misshapen hand.†   (source)
  • He recognized her gratitude, she his generosity and forbearance.†   (source)
  • I therefore forbore to ask any further questions.†   (source)
  • Still, he didn't molest her: for which forbearance she might thank his aversion, I suppose.†   (source)
  • But we forbear, out of sympathy to our readers' bones.†   (source)
  • Attendance, forbearance, patience with Darcy, was injury to Wickham.†   (source)
  • In either case, you can't expect from a plain man like myself much consideration or forbearance.'†   (source)
  • But in our judgments, like as in our doins, we mun bear and forbear.†   (source)
  • They spoke, therefore, of Mrs. Churchill's death with mutual forbearance.†   (source)
  • "Forbear, forbear, my son, forbear," interrupted Mr. Grant.†   (source)
  • 'Children together—young and old,' she sniffed, but forbore to make any new jokes.†   (source)
  • Wherefore I said: "Forbear to grieve, fair knight, for this is not a defeat.†   (source)
  • 'Don't distress yourself by worrying your mind about it,' he returned, with infinite forbearance.†   (source)
  • "Not while I stand by, Master March," coolly put in Deerslayer, motioning for the other to forbear.†   (source)
  • Then he would come and renew the old threadbare discourse about his forbearance and my ingratitude.†   (source)
  • Henchard and himself mutually forbore to meet.†   (source)
  • If not for thyself, yet for thy father's sake forbear!†   (source)
  • Quite despairing of making my mind clear to Wemmick on this point, I forbore to try.†   (source)
  • I told him to forbear question or remark; I desired him to leave me: I must and would be alone.†   (source)
  • Her prudent mother, occupied by the same ideas, forbore to invite him to sit by herself.†   (source)
  • It was not exactly the word on Clennam's lips, but he forbore to interrupt his good-humoured friend.†   (source)
  • The hermit could scarcely forbear from smiling at his guest's reply.†   (source)
  • He told her all; only he forbore to mention how sick and pale her darling looked.†   (source)
  • I was to escape in a vessel; but I forbear to mention any further particulars.†   (source)
  • Though he followed her, he was still dubious, and he could not forbear an occasional halt in order more carefully to study the warning.†   (source)
  • The Vicar, finding his comfort in the practice of a Christian virtue, exercised forbearance; but he revenged himself by calling the churchwarden Bismarck behind his back.†   (source)
  • How could Herr Settembrini not help inveighing against such an atrocious misuse of the idea of the "politic," against this gesture of shrewd, conceited forbearance that the spirit—or what passed for spirit in this case—extended to its alleged guilty opposite, in the presumption that such "politic" action was necessary, when in truth no such noxious indulgence was required; he could not help castigating a damnable dualistic interpretation of the world that cursed the universe—in…†   (source)
  • She measured his forbearance, his struggle, against the monstrous cruelty and passion engendered by a wild life among wild men at a wild time.†   (source)
  • Yet upon one occasion, he could not forbear a little disburthening himself to the old Dansker, tempted thereto perhaps by the influence of a balmy night when the ship lay becalmed; the twain, silent for the most part, sitting together on deck, their heads propped against the bulwarks.†   (source)
  • Pahom turned them out again and again, and forgave their owners, and for a long time he forbore from prosecuting any one.†   (source)
  • I forbore to point out the one obvious exception which would hold good for the bravest of us; I thought he would find out by himself very soon.†   (source)
  • The sacrifice she had made had seemed unavailing enough; no trace remained in Lily of the subduing influences of that hour; but Gerty's tenderness, disciplined by long years of contact with obscure and inarticulate suffering, could wait on its object with a silent forbearance which took no account of time.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Grose listened with dumb emotion; she forbore to ask me what this meaning might be; so that, presently, to put the thing with some coherence and with the mere aid of her presence to my own mind, I went on: "That he's an injury to the others."†   (source)
  • Among strangers he had grown up as best he could, but he had seldom been used with patience or forbearance.†   (source)
  • She could not but know it as she swiftly drew away her hands, and yet, could not forbear one quick searching look before she turned away her eyes.†   (source)
  • As Buck grew stronger they enticed him into all sorts of ridiculous games, in which Thornton himself could not forbear to join; and in this fashion Buck romped through his convalescence and into a new existence.†   (source)
  • The outside world does not know, neither can it appreciate, the struggle that is constantly going on in the hearts of both the Southern white people and their former slaves to free themselves from racial prejudice; and while both races are thus struggling they should have the sympathy, the support, and the forbearance of the rest of the world.†   (source)
  • I could see Maud's solicitude again growing, though she timidly—and even proudly, I think—forbore a repetition of her request.†   (source)
  • O noble sir, forbear, and God love you for a princely gentleman—but it giveth me cruel pain to touch me when I am taken so.†   (source)
  • Hendon despatched his ablutions with alacrity, then drew back the other chair and was about to place himself at table, when the boy said, indignantly— "Forbear!†   (source)
  • He seated himself absently in his chair of state, and turned his eyes upon the door with manifestations of impatient expectancy; seeing which, the company forbore to trouble him, and fell to chatting a mixture of public business and court gossip one with another.†   (source)
  • In an instant several indignant hands were laid upon the boy; but in the same instant Tom Canty, in his regal vestments, made a swift step forward, and cried out in a ringing voice— "Loose him and forbear!†   (source)
  • As we have seen, therefore, he permitted his former host to retire without attempting a recognition, but fully promising himself a rich indemnity for his present forbearance should chance afford him another opportunity.†   (source)
  • The evening wind made such a disturbance just now, among some tall old elm-trees at the bottom of the garden, that neither my mother nor Miss Betsey could forbear glancing that way.†   (source)
  • Dick seemed grown a little absent, but he could not forbear giving me an architectural note, and said: "It is rather an ugly old building, isn't it?†   (source)
  • R.W. Letter 4 To Mrs. Saville, England August 5th, 17— So strange an accident has happened to us that I cannot forbear recording it, although it is very probable that you will see me before these papers can come into your possession.†   (source)
  • "Have you got nothing else for my breakfast, Pritchard?" said Fred, to the servant who brought in coffee and buttered toast; while he walked round the table surveying the ham, potted beef, and other cold remnants, with an air of silent rejection, and polite forbearance from signs of disgust.†   (source)
  • …I would not, even if I had the choice, be the clever novelist who could create a world so much better than this, in which we get up in the morning to do our daily work, that you would be likely to turn a harder, colder eye on the dusty streets and the common green fields—on the real breathing men and women, who can be chilled by your indifference or injured by your prejudice; who can be cheered and helped onward by your fellow-feeling, your forbearance, your outspoken, brave justice.†   (source)
  • I know that for myself it makes no difference whether I do or forbear those actions which are reckoned excellent.†   (source)
  • But she forbore to utter this feeling, and the reticence of her tongue only made the loquacity of her face the more noticeable.†   (source)
  • They parted thus in renewed friendship, Donald forbearing to ask Henchard for meanings that were not very plain to him.†   (source)
  • If this strange gentleman was saying anything improper to his daughter, M. Nioche would entreat him huskily, as a particular favor, to forbear; but he would admit at the same time that he was very presumptuous to ask for particular favors.†   (source)
  • Whereas, by a little charity and mutual forbearance, things are made to go on pleasantly enough: we may abuse a man as much as we like, and call him the greatest rascal unhanged—but do we wish to hang him therefore?†   (source)
  • In short, on an enlarged view of the business, the carpenter's terms appeared so ridiculously easy that Mr. Pyncheon could scarcely forbear laughing in his face.†   (source)
  • Mr. Lorry was so taken aback, that he looked quite stupidly at Mr. Stryver shouldering him towards the door, with an appearance of showering generosity, forbearance, and goodwill, on his erring head.†   (source)
  • It may be observed that at the very moment when, thanks to the ray of the sun, he perceived the gun barrel, he was thinking with astonishment on the forbearance of his Eminence with respect to him.†   (source)
  • But it was well known to be a book of magic; and once, when a chambermaid had lifted it, merely to brush away the dust, the skeleton had rattled in its closet, the picture of the young lady had stepped one foot upon the floor, and several ghastly faces had peeped forth from the mirror; while the brazen head of Hippocrates frowned, and said,--"Forbear!"†   (source)
  • Sir, said Launcelot, I may as well find in my heart for to forbear him at this time, for he hath had travail enough this day, and when a good knight doth so well upon some day, it is no good knight's part to let him of his worship, and, namely, when he seeth a knight hath done so great labour; for peradventure, said Sir Launcelot, his quarrel is here this day, and peradventure he is best beloved with this lady of all that be here, for I see well he paineth himself and enforceth him to…†   (source)
  • He knitted his brows, scratched, smoothed out, and scratched again in the dust mysterious signs—to the wonder of all save the lama, who, with fine instinct, forbore to interfere.†   (source)
  • Still, the old gentleman stood there, glancing from placard to placard, and Nicholas could not forbear raising his eyes to his face again.†   (source)
  • With an easy condescension, and kind forbearance towards our stupidity—which, to his order of mind, must have seemed little short of crime—would he forth-with, by the merest touch of his finger, make the incomprehensible as clear as daylight.†   (source)
  • Mrs. Sparsit sedately resumed her work and occasionally gave a small cough, which sounded like the cough of conscious strength and forbearance.†   (source)
  • You are too much alike and too fond of freedom, not to mention hot tempers and strong wills, to get on happily together, in a relation which needs infinite patience and forbearance, as well as love.†   (source)
  • He was sulky, however, and would not come to terms; she was to go again with a propitiatory offering, but what it was she forbore to say.†   (source)
  • To him so lief was he That he his breast-welling might nowise forbear, But there in his bosom, bound fast in his heart-bonds, After that dear man a longing dim-hidden Burn'd against blood-tie.†   (source)
  • Indeed, the Indian gave him but little opportunity for the exercise of a forbearing temper, as he had come prepared for the occasion.†   (source)
  • She swallowed the wine unhesitatingly, and I forbore to speak to her of a circumstance which must, after all, I considered, have been but the suggestion of a vivid imagination, rendered morbidly active by the terror of the lady, by the opium, and by the hour.†   (source)
  • The singular result has been produced, that while our neighbor has, in truth, no real right to blame or complain--when all the wrong is on her side, and there has been on ours a degree of delay and forbearance, in deference to her pretensions, which is to be paralleled by few precedents in the history of other nations--we have yet laid ourselves open to a great deal of denunciation hard to repel, and impossible to silence; and all history will carry it down as a certain fact, that…†   (source)
  • There were, of course, exceptions to this,—cases of personal kindness and forbearance; but in the vast majority of cases the rule was to extract the uttermost farthing from the mass of the black farm laborers.†   (source)
  • This forbearance, self-denial, or common sense, or by whatever term it may be thought proper to distinguish the measure, has subjected the nation to the imputation of having an ignoble origin.†   (source)
  • She recalled the small details, the words, tones, and looks, in the critical scenes which had opened a new epoch for her by giving her a deeper insight into the relations and trials of life, or which had called on her for some little effort of forbearance, or of painful adherence to an imagined or real duty—asking herself continually whether she had been in any respect blamable.†   (source)
  • It was perhaps because Lord Warburton divined the pang that he generously forbore to call her attention to her not having contributed then to the facility.†   (source)
  • The moment she opened her mouth to speak, however, the old chief gave a gentle sign for her to forbear, said a few words to one of his juniors, and then waited in silent patience until the latter had summoned Hist to the party.†   (source)
  • *l [Footnote l: "In all the tribes," says Volney, in his "Tableau des Etats-Unis," p.423, "there still exists a generation of old warriors, who cannot forbear, when they see their countrymen using the hoe, from exclaiming against the degradation of ancient manners, and asserting that the savages owe their decline to these innovations; adding, that they have only to return to their primitive habits in order to recover their power and their glory.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER XXXI Though she had forced herself to be calm, she preferred practising this virtue in private, and she forbore to show herself at tea—a repast which, on Sundays, at six o'clock, took the place of dinner.†   (source)
  • The Pilgrim could not forbear smiling.†   (source)
  • Mabel blushed at having inadvertently made an allusion that went beyond her father's reading, to say nothing of her uncle's dogmatism, and, perhaps, a little at the Pathfinder's simple, ingenuous earnestness; but she did not forbear the less to smile.†   (source)
  • I heard her with wonder: I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance; and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her chastiser.†   (source)
  • Seeing, however, that his forbearance had not the slightest effect, by an awful and unspeakable intimation with his twisted hand he warned off the foolish and infatuated man; but it was to no purpose.†   (source)
  • The idea of a house without anybody to take care of it went to her heart; then she loved the lovely little girl, as few could help doing; and though she regarded Augustine as very much of a heathen, yet she loved him, laughed at his jokes, and forbore with his failings, to an extent which those who knew him thought perfectly incredible.†   (source)
  • September 5th A scene has just passed of such uncommon interest that, although it is highly probable that these papers may never reach you, yet I cannot forbear recording it.†   (source)
  • But, fortunately for the credit of the old man's forbearance, when the naturalist reached the word, with which he terminated his last speech, a sound arose in the air that seemed a sort of supernatural echo to the idea itself.†   (source)
  • 'I've been so far forbearing with you, sir,' he said quietly; 'not that I was ignorant of your miserable, degraded character, but I felt you were only partly responsible for that; and Catherine wishing to keep up your acquaintance, I acquiesced — foolishly.†   (source)
  • I believe you equal to every important exertion, and to every domestic forbearance, so long as—if I may be allowed the expression—so long as you have an object.†   (source)
  • To his suspicious interpretation Dorothea's silence now was a suppressed rebellion; a remark from her which he had not in any way anticipated was an assertion of conscious superiority; her gentle answers had an irritating cautiousness in them; and when she acquiesced it was a self-approved effort of forbearance.†   (source)
  • M. de Blacas moved suddenly towards the baron, but the fright of the courtier pleaded for the forbearance of the statesman; and besides, as matters were, it was much more to his advantage that the prefect of police should triumph over him than that he should humiliate the prefect.†   (source)
  • Nay, while the officers were making ready with their ropes the Nazarene was doing his greatest charity—not the greatest in deed, but the very greatest in illustration of his forbearance, so far surpassing that of men.†   (source)
  • Don't you feel that it is pleasanter to help one another, to have daily duties which make leisure sweet when it comes, and to bear and forbear, that home may be comfortable and lovely to us all?"†   (source)
  • I forbear to enter into minute particulars of the interview between George and Amelia, when the former was brought back to the feet (or should we venture to say the arms?†   (source)
  • In spite of the recent lecture on good manners, the weaver could not help giving a long "whew" of astonishment, and the others were so amused by his naivete that the merriment flitted all over their faces, though for courtesy's sake they forbore actual laughter; while I looked from one to the other in a puzzled manner, and at last said: "Tell me, please, what is amiss: you know I want to learn from you.†   (source)
  • Mr. Brownlow paced the room to and fro for some minutes; evidently so much disturbed by the beadle's tale, that even Mr. Grimwig forbore to vex him further.†   (source)
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