All 15 Uses of
endure
in
Moby Dick
- Mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over;
Chpt Extr (definition 1) *endures = suffers through
- I felt worse and worse—at last I got up, dressed, and softly going down in my stockinged feet, sought out my stepmother, and suddenly threw myself at her feet, beseeching her as a particular favour to give me a good slippering for my misbehaviour; anything indeed but condemning me to lie abed such an unendurable length of time.†
Chpt 4-6 (definition 1)
- He was a long, earnest man, and though born on an icy coast, seemed well adapted to endure hot latitudes, his flesh being hard as twice-baked biscuit.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2)
- ...this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come,
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2) *endure = survive or continue to exist
- His pure tight skin was an excellent fit; and closely wrapped up in it, and embalmed with inner health and strength, like a revivified Egyptian, this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come, and to endure always, as now; for be it Polar snow or torrid sun, like a patent chronometer, his interior vitality was warranted to do well in all climates.†
Chpt 25-27 (definition 2)
- Because, an interval of three hundred and sixty-five days and nights was before him; an interval which, instead of impatiently enduring ashore, he would spend in a miscellaneous hunt; if by chance the White Whale, spending his vacation in seas far remote from his periodical feeding-grounds, should turn up his wrinkled brow off the Persian Gulf, or in the Bengal Bay, or China Seas, or in any other waters haunted by his race.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)
- Ah, God! what trances of torments does that man endure who is consumed with one unachieved revengeful desire.†
Chpt 43-45 (definition 2)
- And whatever they may reveal of the divine love in the Son, the soft, curled, hermaphroditical Italian pictures, in which his idea has been most successfully embodied; these pictures, so destitute as they are of all brawniness, hint nothing of any power, but the mere negative, feminine one of submission and endurance, which on all hands it is conceded, form the peculiar practical virtues of his teachings.†
Chpt 85-87 (definition 1)
- No great and enduring volume can ever be written on the flea, though many there be who have tried it.†
Chpt 103-105 (definition 2)
- …at the mast-heads of the whaleships, now penetrating even through Behring's straits, and into the remotest secret drawers and lockers of the world; and the thousand harpoons and lances darted along all continental coasts; the moot point is, whether Leviathan can long endure so wide a chase, and so remorseless a havoc; whether he must not at last be exterminated from the waters, and the last whale, like the last man, smoke his last pipe, and then himself evaporate in the final puff.†
Chpt 103-105 (definition 2)
- How can'st thou endure without being mad?†
Chpt 112-114 (definition 2)
- I could not endure the sight; could not possibly fly his howlings; all comfort, sleep itself, inestimable reason would leave me on the long intolerable voyage.†
Chpt 121-123 (definition 2)
- The whole he can endure; at the parts he baulks.†
Chpt 124-126 (definition 2)
- Now were even poor Pip here I could endure it, but he's missing.†
Chpt 127-129 (definition 2)
- But the added power of the boat did not equal the added power of the whale, for he seemed to have treble-banked his every fin; swimming with a velocity which plainly showed, that if now, under these circumstances, pushed on, the chase would prove an indefinitely prolonged, if not a hopeless one; nor could any crew endure for so long a period, such an unintermitted, intense straining at the oar; a thing barely tolerable only in some one brief vicissitude.†
Chpt 133-135 (definition 2)
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