All 26 Uses of
endure
in
Wuthering Heights
- 'What the devil is the matter?' he asked, eyeing me in a manner that I could ill endure, after this inhospitable treatment.†
Chpt 1 (definition 2)
- 'Sir,' I exclaimed, 'sitting here within these four walls, at one stretch, I have endured and forgiven the four hundred and ninety heads of your discourse.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- 'I'm not going to endure the persecutions of your hospitable ancestors again.†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- This endurance made old Earnshaw furious, when he discovered his son persecuting the poor fatherless child, as he called him.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- He ventured this remark without any intention to insult; but Heathcliff's violent nature was not prepared to endure the appearance of impertinence from one whom he seemed to hate, even then, as a rival.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- The meal hardly endured ten minutes.
Chpt 10 (definition 2) *endured = lasted; or continued to exist
- Oh, I've endured very, very bitter misery, Nelly!†
Chpt 10 (definition 2)
- Day and night he was watching, and patiently enduring all the annoyances that irritable nerves and a shaken reason could inflict; and, though Kenneth remarked that what he saved from the grave would only recompense his care by forming the source of constant future anxiety — in fact, that his health and strength were being sacrificed to preserve a mere ruin of humanity — he knew no limits in gratitude and joy when Catherine's life was declared out of danger; and hour after hour he would…†
Chpt 13 (definition 2)
- She even disgraces the name of Linton; and I've sometimes relented, from pure lack of invention, in my experiments on what she could endure, and still creep shamefully cringing back!†
Chpt 14 (definition 2)
- She was conscious of his aim, and in her better moods endured his efforts placidly, only showing their uselessness by now and then suppressing a wearied sigh, and checking him at last with the saddest of smiles and kisses.†
Chpt 15 (definition 2)
- Are you willing to endure to the last, and not once attempt a repayment?†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- ' "I'm weary of enduring now," I replied; "and I'd be glad of a retaliation that wouldn't recoil on myself; but treachery and violence are spears pointed at both ends; they wound those who resort to them worse than their enemies."†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- One hoped, and the other despaired: they chose their own lots, and were righteously doomed to endure them.†
Chpt 17 (definition 2)
- That is the sole consideration which can make me endure the whelp: I despise him for himself, and hate him for the memories he revives!†
Chpt 20 (definition 2)
- 'I'm sorry I hurt you, Linton,' she said at length, racked beyond endurance.†
Chpt 23 (definition 1)
- 'About three times, I think, we have been merry and hopeful, as we were the first evening; the rest of my visits were dreary and troubled: now with his selfishness and spite, and now with his sufferings: but I've learned to endure the former with nearly as little resentment as the latter.†
Chpt 24 (definition 2)
- Catherine perceived, as well as I did, that he held it rather a punishment, than a gratification, to endure our company; and she made no scruple of proposing, presently, to depart.†
Chpt 26 (definition 2)
- Linton shivered, and glanced at her, half supplicating, half ashamed; but his cousin's patience was not sufficient to endure this enigmatical behaviour.†
Chpt 27 (definition 2)
- 'I AM afraid now,' she replied, 'because, if I stay, papa will be miserable: and how can I endure making him miserable — when he — when he — Mr. Heathcliff, let ME go home!†
Chpt 27 (definition 2)
- I must try to endure it another hour...
Chpt 27 (definition 1) *endure = put up with
- I endured it two or three hours; at length, I heard a footstep: not Heathcliff's.†
Chpt 27 (definition 2)
- "I can't endure you!†
Chpt 30 (definition 2)
- But his self-love would endure no further torment: I heard, and not altogether disapprovingly, a manual cheek given to her saucy tongue.†
Chpt 31 (definition 2)
- Both doors and lattices were open; and yet, as is usually the case in a coal-district, a fine red fire illumined the chimney: the comfort which the eye derives from it renders the extra heat endurable.†
Chpt 32 (definition 1)
- …to himself! and though in the beginning she either left it at his approach, or quietly joined in my occupations, and shunned remarking or addressing him — and though he was always as sullen and silent as possible — after a while, she changed her behaviour, and became incapable of letting him alone: talking at him; commenting on his stupidity and idleness; expressing her wonder how he could endure the life he lived — how he could sit a whole evening staring into the fire, and dozing.†
Chpt 32 (definition 2)
- He, poor man, was perfectly aghast at the spectacle of Catherine seated on the same bench with Hareton Earnshaw, leaning her hand on his shoulder; and confounded at his favourite's endurance of her proximity: it affected him too deeply to allow an observation on the subject that night.†
Chpt 32 (definition 1)
Definitions:
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(1) (endure as in: endured the pain) to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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(2) (endure as in: endure through the ages) to continue to exist