All 7 Uses of
endure
in
The House of Mirth
- Mattie Gormer's undiscriminating good-nature, and the slap-dash sociability of her friends, who treated Lily precisely as they treated each other—all these characteristic notes of difference began to wear upon her endurance; and the more she saw to criticize in her companions, the less justification she found for making use of them.†
Chpt 2.5
- They were not, at any rate, the premeditated and perfunctory endearments of the guest under his hostess's eye, for he and the little girl had the room to themselves; and something in his attitude made him seem a simple and kindly being compared to the small critical creature who endured his homage.†
Chpt 2.6
- As she walked beside him, shrinking in every nerve from the way in which his look and tone made free of her, yet telling herself that this momentary endurance of his mood was the price she must pay for her ultimate power over him, she tried to calculate the exact point at which concession must turn to resistance, and the price HE would have to pay be made equally clear to him.†
Chpt 2.7
- Lily drew away with a movement of quick disdain: it was easier to endure his insolence than his commiseration.†
Chpt 2.7 *
- Its very drudgeries had a charm now that she was involuntarily released from them: card-leaving, note-writing, enforced civilities to the dull and elderly, and the smiling endurance of tedious dinners—how pleasantly such obligations would have filled the emptiness of her days!†
Chpt 2.8
- Something of her mother's fierce shrinking from observation and sympathy was beginning to develop in her, and the promiscuity of small quarters and close intimacy seemed, on the whole, less endurable than the solitude of a hall bedroom in a house where she could come and go unremarked among other workers.†
Chpt 2.10
- Well—Selden had twice been ready to stake his faith on Lily Bart; but the third trial had been too severe for his endurance.†
Chpt 2.13 *
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