All 5 Uses of
endure
in
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
- The boy whose history this book relates did not enjoy the prayer, he only endured it—if he even did that much.†
Chpt 5
- He was so homesick that he could hardly endure the misery of it.†
Chpt 16 *
- His conscience could not endure any more of Amy's grateful happiness, and his jealousy could bear no more of the other distress.†
Chpt 18
- Perhaps the reader can endure an extract from it: "In the common walks of life, with what delightful emotions does the youthful mind look forward to some anticipated scene of festivity!†
Chpt 21
- He believed he had taxed the forbearance of the powers above to the extremity of endurance and that this was the result.†
Chpt 22 *
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