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  • …of a defunct German tractor company and an award-winning shih-tzu dog; it's a seaside resort in Poland, an advertising firm in Switzerland, a Danish boat where people gather to drink vodka and watch films, and a Marvel comic book character who appears in several online games: a seven-foot-tall, half-black, half-white goddess who's part dead and part alive, with "immeasurable" intelligence, "superhuman" strength, "godlike" stamina and durability, and five hundred pounds of solid muscle.†   (source)
  • "You've got more stamina than most of the guys from the team last year."†   (source)
  • A Tegucigalpa elementary school principal told me that many of his students were so malnourished that they didn't have the stamina to stand up for long at school rallies or to sing the national anthem.†   (source)
  • I marveled at her stamina.†   (source)
  • I was fine with all of those, but the one-and-a-half-mile run in that weather would have tested the stamina of a polar bear.†   (source)
  • Being away from the fighting had weakened my stamina.†   (source)
  • I don't know how the doctors have the stamina to keep up.†   (source)
  • Over the course of the sort, I watch for pacing and patterns and I watch for stamina.†   (source)
  • I needed to be sure of his temperament as much as his stamina.†   (source)
  • And sometimes I haven't the stamina for it.†   (source)
  • I don't have any intention of abandoning the relationship, but I don't have the stamina to serve indefinitely as his keeper, worrying about his safety while trying to be a columnist, husband and father.†   (source)
  • Go had more stamina than I did, though.†   (source)
  • It takes a lot of physical stamina to do that much surgery.†   (source)
  • They've got stamina.†   (source)
  • "I mean, you've got some pretty impressive stamina going for you."†   (source)
  • Therefore we need only probe your knowledge and speed and stamina.†   (source)
  • It won't be much, but it will still reduce your stamina by a certain amount.†   (source)
  • I had amazing strength and stamina.†   (source)
  • Milo, the serious-faced little burden bearer, was growing fast, and lacked stamina.†   (source)
  • I didn't have the stamina.†   (source)
  • Even at seventy-five, Gus Caldwell showed immense strength and incredible stamina.†   (source)
  • He was pushing himself too hard, and his stamina wasn't half what it should have been.†   (source)
  • They have a size to them, a natural stamina that mocks his own bible-school indoctrination even as it draws him to the noise.†   (source)
  • I had several physically difficult solos in this ballet, and they required enormous stamina.†   (source)
  • And they admired those books, and they admired his will and stamina.†   (source)
  • You had the stamina to go out into the streets and hunt one down.†   (source)
  • My legs are longer and I can take her in a sprint, but I have no stamina.†   (source)
  • How many vampires do you think have the stamina for immortality?†   (source)
  • Of all the del Valle children, Clara was the one with the greatest interest in and stamina for her uncle's stories.†   (source)
  • Amazingly, Tom's stamina seemed nearly inexhaustible.†   (source)
  • But that only made me more certain that I had the stamina to tell him, face-to-face, what balancing the scales really meant.†   (source)
  • It's hard to imagine him having the energy and stamina to get it on with any woman."†   (source)
  • He began devising different games, each of which was designed to improve the boys' reflexes, stamina and camaraderie.†   (source)
  • That Washington was known to hunt up to seven hours straight, riding as close to the hounds as possible, "leaping fences, and going extremely quick," and always to the end, to be in on the kill, was considered not only a measure of his love of the chase and his exceptional physical stamina, but also of his uncommon, unrelenting determination.†   (source)
  • It was as epic and immutable as the enterprise on which the girl had been forced to embark and, as the miles went by, Annie could only marvel at her stamina.†   (source)
  • Of course that could be because I've got an eighteen-year-old boyfriend with a stamina rune and she doesn't.†   (source)
  • The gods had given her stamina too, which Ser Goodwin deemed a noble gift.†   (source)
  • Being out in the field hadn't helped my stamina.†   (source)
  • Ordinary horses have the speed of them for short bursts,' I acknowledged, 'but they can't touch them for stamina.†   (source)
  • Fang, Iggy, and I were holding steady, but we had mucho de stamina.†   (source)
  • Builds speed, stamina, and body control.†   (source)
  • As I began adding strength later, I think that foundation of stamina served me well, which was an unexpected plus.†   (source)
  • Her only child's wedding—the culmination of all she had been, thought or done in this world—had dragged from her energy and stamina even she did not know she possessed.†   (source)
  • To travel long distances and quickly, cross-country in the dark, wasn't just a matter of stamina, but also of experience.†   (source)
  • Once I had watched three juniors work on him for an hour, trying to break down his indefatigable stamina with a grueling, synchronized combination of running stairs, holding out an M-1 rifle,and pushups, but they never even began to crack Pig and eventually surrendered out of sheer boredom and a begrudging awe.†   (source)
  • To build beyond myself, I must first tap all inner resources of stamina, of courage, of resolution within myself.†   (source)
  • With age there comes a paucity of stamina.†   (source)
  • Because the room was small and required the stamina of an alpinist to reach, it rented for next to nothing.†   (source)
  • And he possessed great stamina, for the tempo of the tireless dwarves had strengthened his heart and stretched his lungs to new limits.†   (source)
  • I shall show courage and stamina.†   (source)
  • It was true, he thought, that women had more stamina than men.†   (source)
  • There weren't many white horses in the bucking strings, maybe because they weren't supposed to have the fight, the stamina.†   (source)
  • In all, it required the stamina of a god to bear the entire seven days of pleasure.†   (source)
  • He's got the stamina to take anything.†   (source)
  • I must say it took stamina; but I was a younger man then.†   (source)
  • John says, "Where's all that stamina you were telling us about?†   (source)
  • I could almost feel my muscles growing every day, my stamina increasing.†   (source)
  • The younger man had impressed Roran with his stamina and fortitude over the past three days.†   (source)
  • It takes a certain amount of stamina and endurance.†   (source)
  • Cooper ran for hours at this pace, exhibiting almost limitless stamina, before something went wrong.†   (source)
  • He lacked, according to General Stone, the physical stamina that the organization deemed necessary?†   (source)
  • I mean, the younger set also had stamina, especially compared to dinky little non-mutant humans.†   (source)
  • We knew that without this kind of work our stamina would not improve.†   (source)
  • I couldn't feel anything anyway and still seemed to have the stamina and energy to go on.†   (source)
  • But he knew Whichcee had stamina, and he couldn't let him steal away.†   (source)
  • As Erwin Smigel wrote in The Wall Street Lawyer, his study of the New York legal establishment of that era, they were looking for: lawyers who are Nordic, have pleasing personalities and "clean-cut" appearances, are graduates of the "right schools," have the "right" social background and experience in the affairs of the world, and are endowed with tremendous stamina.†   (source)
  • But he had stamina.†   (source)
  • I'd like to wait around and see him dead, but given the state of our justice system, that may take years, and I have neither the money nor the stamina.†   (source)
  • And when I finished at the gym, I'd run three miles at the Seattle Pacific track to keep up my stamina.†   (source)
  • Although the assassin's right arm was effectively immobilized, in sheer stamina Bourne knew he was no match for the younger, stronger man.†   (source)
  • They could only shadow-travel a few hundred miles each night, resting during the day to let Nico recover; but even that required more stamina from Nico than Reyna would have thought possible.†   (source)
  • Elsewhere I have more stamina for these things, these acts of self-exposure; I could brazen them out.†   (source)
  • He ground through twenty-four-hour endurance tests and "stamina runs," in which contestants looped up and down local roads until their beleaguered automobiles exploded or shed their wheels—the last one rolling was the winner.†   (source)
  • Jose didn't know if Chuy could hit a baseball, but he saw that the young boy had coordination and tremendous stamina.†   (source)
  • They're strong, they have a lot of stamina; they can go on for years and years, after the rest of the body has quit.†   (source)
  • Conway had spent weeks training stamina into the horse, while Smith had not done much for Seabiscuit's endurance.†   (source)
  • By the time fall was upon us, all our preparation was paying off in the confidence we had in our strength, stamina, and ability.†   (source)
  • In the spring of 1937, he displayed such overwhelming accelerationand stamina that he was never off the lead at any stage of any race.†   (source)
  • And in the process of going beyond where I thought I could go, I started to develop more confidence in my ability and the stamina to handle whatever I might face—be it in a game, a classroom, or any other setting.†   (source)
  • He had smashed a world record in the shortest of sprints, one half mile, yet had the stamina to run in track record time at one and five-eighths miles.†   (source)
  • You get good lines, perhaps, but no stamina.†   (source)
  • Anything that took stamina got him--six-day bike races, dance marathons, walkathons, flagpole sitting, continuous and world flights, long fasts by Gandhi or striking prisoners, people camping underground, buried alive and fed and breathing through a shaft--any miracles of endurance and effort, as if out of competition with cylinder walls or other machine materials that withstand steam, gases, and all inhuman pressure.†   (source)
  • A puny child-no stamina.†   (source)
  • Those who man our defenses and those behind them who build our defenses must have the stamina and the courage which come from unshakable belief in the manner of life which they are defending.†   (source)
  • I believe the stamina has been bred out of them, and when the emergency arises I don't believe they can run against odds.†   (source)
  • It was almost impossible to obtain these small luxuries now—ladies were wearing hand-whittled wooden hairpins and covering acorns with cloth for buttons—and Pitty lacked the moral stamina to refuse them.†   (source)
  • Only she was disgusted at her lack of stamina, and her appalling sensitiveness to discomfort.†   (source)
  • March never had any stamina," was the cheerful reply.†   (source)
  • Your strength and stamina against mine.†   (source)
  • If he had been able to believe at the foundations of his soul (there where he himself did not know what was what) that work has unconditional value, is a principle that answers its own question, might not both body and mind—first his mind, and through it, his body—have been more amenable to work and exhibited more stamina?†   (source)
  • The horse had speed, fire, stamina.†   (source)
  • I perceived pretty clearly that I had not the stamina either to resist what the captain chose to do to expel me, or to force myself upon Montgomery and his companion.†   (source)
  • I don't know what horrors they used to test Herr Settembrini's stamina—whether they led him blindfolded down various corridors and then let him wait in some dark vaulted chamber before the doors were thrown wide to reveal the mirrors and bright lights of the lodge hall.†   (source)
  • And yet I will, so far as I have power in arms and legs, and stamina.†   (source)
  • How could he run so long from death, had not Apollo for the last time, the very last, come near to give him stamina and speed?†   (source)
  • Or one of us could back Akhilleus, give him the edge in power, in stamina, in valor, let him know the high immortals love him!†   (source)
  • Your fighting spirit's
    stronger than ours, your stamina never fails.
    You must be made of iron head to foot.†   (source)
  • …proud Cauconians.
    Those people owe me a debt long overdue,
    and no mean sum, believe me.
    But you, seeing my friend is now your guest,
    speed him on his way with a chariot and your son
    and give him the finest horses that you have,
    bred for stamina, trained to race the wind."
    With that the bright-eyed goddess winged away
    in an eagle's form and flight.
    Amazement fell on all the Achaeans there.
    The old king, astonished by what he'd seen,
    grasped Telemachus' hand and cried out to…†   (source)
  • …push their vessels off for passage out.
    But here the gods becalmed me twenty days ….
    not a breath of the breezes ruffling out to sea
    that speed a ship across the ocean's broad back.
    Now our rations would all have been consumed,
    our crews' stamina too, if one of the gods
    had not felt sorry for me, shown me mercy,

    Eidothea, a daughter of Proteus,
    that great power, the Old Man of the Sea.
    My troubles must have moved her to the heart
    when she met me trudging by myself without…†   (source)
  • He is a mule, a dead gasteropod, without vim or stamina, not worth a cracked kreutzer.†   (source)
  • Though a wellpreserved man of no little stamina, if a trifle prone to baldness, there was something spurious in the cut of his jib that suggested a jail delivery and it required no violent stretch of imagination to associate such a weirdlooking specimen with the oakum and treadmill fraternity.†   (source)
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