All 4 Uses of
endure
in
The War of the Worlds
- But, squeamish as I may seem, I cannot bring myself to describe what I could not endure even to continue watching.†
Chpt 2.2 *
- The rudimentary precautions to keep our imprisonment endurable he would not observe.†
Chpt 2.4 *
- But while that voice sounded the solitude, the desolation, had been endurable; by virtue of it London had still seemed alive, and the sense of life about me had upheld me.†
Chpt 2.8
- I turned down St. John's Wood Road, and ran headlong from this unendurable stillness towards Kilburn.†
Chpt 2.8
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