All 10 Uses of
endure
in
Great Expectations
- But, all I had endured up to this time was nothing in comparison with the awful feelings that took possession of me when the pause was broken which ensued upon my sister's recital, and in which pause everybody had looked at me (as I felt painfully conscious) with indignation and abhorrence.†
Chpt 4
- There have been occasions in my later life (I suppose as in most lives) when I have felt for a time as if a thick curtain had fallen on all its interest and romance, to shut me out from anything save dull endurance any more.†
Chpt 14 *
- We were waiting, I supposed, for Mr. Pocket to come out to us; at any rate we waited there, and so I had an opportunity of observing the remarkable family phenomenon that whenever any of the children strayed near Mrs. Pocket in their play, they always tripped themselves up and tumbled over her,—always very much to her momentary astonishment, and their own more enduring lamentation.†
Chpt 22
- But unless I had taken the life of Trabb's boy on that occasion, I really do not even now see what I could have done save endure.†
Chpt 30
- I detested the chambers beyond expression at that period of repentance, and could not endure the sight of the Avenger's livery; which had a more expensive and a less remunerative appearance then than at any other time in the four-and-twenty hours.†
Chpt 34
- She had shown a proud impatience more than once before, and had rather endured that fierce affection than accepted or returned it.†
Chpt 38
- To the present moment, I believe it to have been referable to some pure fire of generosity and disinterestedness in my love for her, that I could not endure the thought of her stooping to that hound.†
Chpt 38
- Choking and boiling as I was, I felt that we could not go a word further, without introducing Estella's name, which I could not endure to hear him utter; and therefore I looked stonily at the opposite wall, as if there were no one present, and forced myself to silence.†
Chpt 43
- I think that, in the endurance of her own trial, she forgot mine, Estella.†
Chpt 44
- It was violently swollen and inflamed, and I could scarcely endure to have it touched.†
Chpt 53 *
Definitions:
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(endure as in: endured the pain) to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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(endure as in: endure through the ages) to continue to exist