All 6 Uses of
endure
in
Bleak House
- Young men like Mr. Allan Woodcourt who take it from a strong interest in all that it can do will find some reward in it through a great deal of work for a very little money and through years of considerable endurance and disappointment.†
Chpt 16-18 *
- Such a mean mission as the domestic mission was the very last thing to be endured among them; indeed, Miss Wisk informed us, with great indignation, before we sat down to breakfast, that the idea of woman's mission lying chiefly in the narrow sphere of home was an outrageous slander on the part of her tyrant, man.†
Chpt 28-30
- Even in the thinking of her endurance, she drew her habitual air of proud indifference about her like a veil, though she soon cast it off again.†
Chpt 34-36
- …myself, though every word that was uttered in the mother's voice, so unfamiliar and so melancholy to me, which in my childhood I had never learned to love and recognize, had never been sung to sleep with, had never heard a blessing from, had never had a hope inspired by, made an enduring impression on my memory—I say I explained, or tried to do it, how I had only hoped that Mr. Jarndyce, who had been the best of fathers to me, might be able to afford some counsel and support to her.†
Chpt 34-36
- She cannot endure their restraint and will walk alone in a neighbouring garden.†
Chpt 46-48
- I would not endure it.†
Chpt 52-54 *
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