All 31 Uses of
endure
in
The Count of Monte Cristo
- "I understand," replied Fernand, "you can endure your own wretchedness patiently, but you are afraid to share mine.†
Chpt 3-4
- Danglars did not lose one pang that Fernand endured.†
Chpt 3-4
- As for Fernand himself, he seemed to be enduring the tortures of the damned; unable to rest, he was among the first to quit the table, and, as though seeking to avoid the hilarious mirth that rose in such deafening sounds, he continued, in utter silence, to pace the farther end of the salon.†
Chpt 5-6
- "Sire, it is fatality!" murmured the minister, feeling that the pressure of circumstances, however light a thing to destiny, was too much for any human strength to endure.†
Chpt 11-12
- "Ah," said Dantes, "you might well endure the tedious delay; you were constantly employed in the task you set yourself, and when weary with toil, you had your hopes to refresh and encourage you."†
Chpt 15-16
- Perhaps he will be young, strong, and enduring, like yourself, and will aid you in your escape, while I have been but a hindrance.†
Chpt 19-20
- I suffer less because there is in me less strength to endure.†
Chpt 19-20
- Dantes was almost glad of this affray, and almost pleased at being wounded, for they were rude lessons which taught him with what eye he could view danger, and with what endurance he could bear suffering.†
Chpt 22-23 *
- The war with Spain being ended, Fernand's career was checked by the long peace which seemed likely to endure throughout Europe.†
Chpt 27-28
- This was the young man whom his mother and sister called to their aid to sustain them under the serious trial which they felt they would soon have to endure.†
Chpt 29-30
- Albert had never been able to endure the Italian theatres, with their orchestras from which it is impossible to see, and the absence of balconies, or open boxes; all these defects pressed hard on a man who had had his stall at the Bouffes, and had shared a lower box at the Opera.†
Chpt 33-34
- I endured the rain during the day, and the cold during the night tolerably well, but the third morning my horse died of cold.†
Chpt 39-40
- I cannot endure the modern school of painting.†
Chpt 45-46 *
- Debray, who perceived the gathering clouds, and felt no desire to witness the explosion of Madame Danglars' rage, suddenly recollected an appointment, which compelled him to take his leave; while Monte Cristo, unwilling by prolonging his stay to destroy the advantages he hoped to obtain, made a farewell bow and departed, leaving Danglars to endure the angry reproaches of his wife.†
Chpt 47-48
- Two hours afterwards, Madame Danglars received a most flattering epistle from the count, in which he entreated her to receive back her favorite "dappled grays," protesting that he could not endure the idea of making his entry into the Parisian world of fashion with the knowledge that his splendid equipage had been obtained at the price of a lovely woman's regrets.†
Chpt 47-48
- Edward endured the accident with miraculous courage—he did not utter a single cry, but fell lifeless into my arms; nor did a tear fall from his eyes after it was over.†
Chpt 47-48
- If you will only repeat that avowal now and then, I can endure anything.†
Chpt 51-52
- Ah, Maximilian, that is the very thing that makes you so bold, and which renders me at once so happy and unhappy, that I frequently ask myself whether it is better for me to endure the harshness of my mother-in-law, and her blind preference for her own child, or to be, as I now am, insensible to any pleasure save such as I find in these meetings, so fraught with danger to both.†
Chpt 51-52
- M. d'Epinay, to whom I had promised the interest of this sum, shall receive it, even if I endure the most cruel privations."†
Chpt 59-60
- Monte Cristo, seeing that the two persons for whom he had prepared this scene could scarcely endure it, and not wishing to carry it too far, said, "Come, gentlemen,—some coffee, we seem to have forgotten it," and he conducted the guests back to the table on the lawn.†
Chpt 63-64
- The diamond which glittered in the window at Marle's or Fossin's shines with more splendor when it is our own; but if we are compelled to acknowledge the superiority of another, and still must retain the one that is inferior, do you not know what we have to endure?"†
Chpt 67-68
- Yes, I will tell you all; but take away the young man; I cannot endure his presence.†
Chpt 75-76
- "They will, no doubt, bleed him; therefore I will retire, for I cannot endure the sight of blood;" and she followed her husband up-stairs.†
Chpt 79-80
- "Come," said Caderousse, wiping his large knife on his apron, "if I did not like you, do you think I should endure the wretched life you lead me?†
Chpt 81-82
- "I am all attention," said Eugenie, looking so earnestly at her father that it was an effort for the latter to endure her unrelenting gaze.†
Chpt 95-96
- Oh, the wretched hours I have endured—the torture to which I have submitted when I saw the deadly poison poured into your glass, and how I trembled lest you should drink it before I could find time to throw it away!†
Chpt 99-100
- "Sir," said Valentine, at the height of her terror, "you say you endured tortures when you saw the deadly poison poured into my glass; but if you saw this, you must also have seen the person who poured it?"†
Chpt 99-100
- "And so Mademoiselle Danglars"— "She could not endure the insult offered to us by that wretch, so she asked permission to travel."†
Chpt 103-104
- "Still, baron," said Monte Cristo, "family griefs, or indeed any other affliction which would crush a man whose child was his only treasure, are endurable to a millionaire.†
Chpt 103-104
- I received this morning five millions which I paid away; almost directly afterwards another demand for the same sum was presented to me; I put this creditor off till to-morrow and I intend leaving to-day, to escape that to-morrow, which would be rather too unpleasant for me to endure.†
Chpt 105-106
- "Oh, no, no, count," cried Maximilian, seizing the count's hands, "pray laugh; be happy, and prove to me, by your indifference, that life is endurable to sufferers.†
Chpt 117
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