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  • For me, understanding my past and knowing that I wasn't doomed gave me the hope and fortitude to deal with the demons of my youth.†   (source)
  • And more than anything else, people have told me how my mother's example of fortitude and her refusal to let anything get in the way of her kids' success have given them the strength to do the same.†   (source)
  • It was only that we could feel a deep and sincere difference between us and them, a difference which everyone struggled with awkward fortitude to bridge.†   (source)
  • I was pretty certain it was a plot to get me to make out with her, and had I been any older or wiser, or one of those guys for whom make-out sessions with hot girls were so frequent as to be of no consequence, I might've had the emotional and hormonal fortitude to demand that we have our talk right then and there.†   (source)
  • He flicks his rubber band as his eyes scan my body, mentally critiquing my lack of physical fortitude.†   (source)
  • It makes sense, though, since being a SEAL is more about mental toughness than physical prowess—if you have the psychological fortitude to come back from an injury and complete the program, you stand a decent chance of being a good SEAL.†   (source)
  • You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.†   (source)
  • I'm sorry, but Mollie Lowery and Mary Scullion were nuns, and I don't have their fortitude.†   (source)
  • Fermina Daza, with her innate fortitude, confessed to the error of the letter, but refused to reveal the identity of her secret sweetheart and refused again before the Tribunal of the Order which, therefore, confirmed the verdict of expulsion.†   (source)
  • He remembered her as someone of great strength and fortitude.†   (source)
  • On the whole, Mrs. Johnson's attitude toward her father was ambivalent, but one aspect of him she had always respected-his fortitude.†   (source)
  • In denying their bodies the most basic necessities, jockeys demonstrated incredible fortitude.†   (source)
  • No one else but members of Adam's team had the skill, fortitude, or audacity to infiltrate this area undetected and engage the enemy in their own backyard.†   (source)
  • In that moment I found a power beyond any I'd had before, a will and a determination I would never have needed if not for Lucinda, a fortitude I hadn't been able to find for a lesser cause.†   (source)
  • "I'm quite impressed with your fortitude.†   (source)
  • Jaime scarcely encouraged her, but he lacked the fortitude to reject her, because he felt that the illusion of love might help in her recovery although he knew that for the two of them it was too late.†   (source)
  • A childhood at Missing imparted lessons about resilience, about fortitude, and about the fragility of life.†   (source)
  • Opinions can be picked up cheap in the marketplace, while such commodities as courage and fortitude and faith are in alarmingly short supply.†   (source)
  • Johnstone praised the people of New England for their courage and fortitude.†   (source)
  • Speaking with a respectful deference that I did not feel, I explained the plight at the rectory, and, flattering him about his great strength and fortitude, beseeched his help.†   (source)
  • Like Janice, she is acutely aware of every mean act and unkindness and lie and betrayal of which she has ever been guilty, and she recognizes that she still has the capacity for selfishness, pettiness, and cruelty; she yearns to transcend her past even as she quakes at the fortitude required to do so.†   (source)
  • Not that Simon was sure he'd have the fortitude to stop her.†   (source)
  • Most of them had been fully aware of the severity of the plebe system when they chose the Institute, and they welcomed its testing of their fortitude.†   (source)
  • But there are times when, much as I want to assert myself, know it's the right thing to do, I can't find the inner fortitude to follow through with a simple two-letter word.†   (source)
  • Judges need great fortitude.†   (source)
  • You have to have the fortitude of a triathlete.†   (source)
  • Certainly there's a great deal to be said for your fortitude, for your defiant courage.†   (source)
  • Lena rolled her eyes to show fortitude, and nodded.†   (source)
  • But since in fact we see that avarice, anger, envy, pride, sloth, lust and stupidity commonly profit far beyond humility, chastity, fortitude, justice and thought, and have to choose, to be human at all …. why then perhaps we must stand fast a little-even at the risk of being heroes.†   (source)
  • Though I never saw Narmonee in battle I will, from what I then observed, stake my life upon his courage and fortitude.   (source)
  • I shall soon have need for all my fortitude, as I am on the point of separation from my own daughter.   (source)
  • I pray for strength and fortitude.
  • The younger man had impressed Roran with his stamina and fortitude over the past three days.†   (source)
  • Her misgivings undermined Eragon's remaining fortitude.†   (source)
  • Mosquitoes and gnats were put on earth to test the fortitude of cadets at parade.†   (source)
  • By perseverance and fortitude we have the prospect of a glorious issue.†   (source)
  • Her confidence wavered as she contemplated the evidence of Fadawar's fortitude.†   (source)
  • If Adams lacked the fortitude to take the step, then Congress would, they declared.†   (source)
  • He but sat and waited, armored by his perfect stoic fortitude.†   (source)
  • The limited crew of the night shift found themselves running from phone to phone without the fortitude to answer a single one.†   (source)
  • Then his journey seemed yet another proof of his mother's wisdom, and he felt that he had the fortitude to endure forgetting.†   (source)
  • It would slay the dish with a blow to the head and drag it behind its chariot until it tested the fortitude of every man in Troy.†   (source)
  • There was no difference between Dr. Urbino Daza and his public image: his talents were limited, his manner awkward, and he suffered from sudden twitching, caused by either happiness or annoyance, and from inopportune blushing, which made one fear for his mental fortitude.†   (source)
  • Sofia was doing her best to match her mother's fortitude; but she did not yet have her mother's command over her own emotions.†   (source)
  • When the tenor's three sons displayed their fortitude by giving chase to the three different birds in three different directions, the ambassador from the Vatican advised the tenor on the proper behavior of children.†   (source)
  • Patience, fortitude, public spirit, magnanimity, and self-denial were called for, though she herself, wrote Mercy in candor, could not claim these "sublime" qualities.†   (source)
  • The Chinese and the Indian know as well as I do what kindness is, what generosity is, what fortitude is.†   (source)
  • Despite himself, Roran was impressed by the merchant's fortitude; Jeod appeared unconcerned by his fate, if a bit grim about the mouth.†   (source)
  • I may lack political fortitude, but I believe that it is dangerous to continue in our present situation.†   (source)
  • From downsizing the family home to allowing a widower preacher to "go Dutch" with her at the Olive Garden on occasion, my mother has put one foot in front of the other with grace and fortitude.†   (source)
  • Between the beginning and end of a four-year term, there would be a long time before the thought of having to get reelected would have an improper effect on the conduct of a man with enough fortitude.†   (source)
  • And yet they survived, displaying the same obstinacy and fortitude that kept their ancestors in Palancar Valley despite famine, war, and pestilence.†   (source)
  • But my soul is wounded at a separation from you, and my fortitude is all dissolved in frailty and weakness.†   (source)
  • I hope we shall be taught to copy his example and to prefer the love of liberty in this time of public danger to all the soft pleasures of domestic life and support ourselves with manly fortitude amidst all the dangers and hardships that attend a state of war.†   (source)
  • I want each of them to know the pleasure of walking up to his parents four years from now, strong, proud, clear-eyed, and erect, and thanking you for giving him the strength and fortitude to endure the rigors of the plebe system.†   (source)
  • He later told me it was that belief which gave him the strength and fortitude he needed to kill Morzan and his dragon.†   (source)
  • The four surgeons who performed the operation told Adams afterward that they had never known a patient to show such fortitude.†   (source)
  • Instead, if he only might leave office unless reelected, and if he wants to be reelected, his wishes, conspiring with his fears, would tend still more powerfully to corrupt his integrity or debase his fortitude.†   (source)
  • Heaven be praised your father and I have been supported through all this solemn scene with fortitude and I hope Christian resignation.†   (source)
  • He cannot walk without aid…… He bears his condition with fortitude, but is sensible to all its helplessness…… He receives some letters, and dictates answers to them.†   (source)
  • From Paris, where he was well supplied with London papers, Jefferson expressed astonishment at such slanders, as well as admiration for Adams's fortitude.†   (source)
  • If your dearest friend had not abilities to render such important services tohis country, he would not be called…… I know your public spirit and fortitude to be such that you will throw no impediment in his way.†   (source)
  • …even before Parliament existed…… Let us read and recollect and impress upon our souls the views and ends of our more immediate forefathers, in exchanging their native country for a dreary, inhospitable wilderness…… Recollect their amazing fortitude, their bitter sufferings—the hunger, the nakedness, the cold, which they patiently endured—the severe labors of clearing their grounds, building their houses, raising their provisions, amidst dangers from wild beasts and savage men, before…†   (source)
  • His death is read as a splendid lesson in integrity and fortitude.†   (source)
  • There was certainly nothing in his outer case to suggest the fierceness and fortitude and fire of the man, and yet even the thickblooded Mexican half-breeds knew his quality at once.†   (source)
  • Softness and gentleness and youth (he was just forty) and almost everything else except a kind of stubborn and despairing fortitude and the bleak heritage of his bloodpride had been sweated out of him.†   (source)
  • Let him regard them as his crosses: let him forget that, since they are incompatible, they cannot all happen to him, and let him try to practise fortitude and patience to them all in advance.†   (source)
  • With all the fortitude in the world Manuel could not prevent himself from shouting and from flinging himself about upon the bed.†   (source)
  • Because Ellen had something of pride too, or at least that vanity which at times can assume the office of pride and fortitude; besides, nothing had happened yet.†   (source)
  • Ellen had hinted before the wedding that marriage was something women must bear with dignity and fortitude, and the whispered comments of other matrons since her widowhood had confirmed this.†   (source)
  • A spiritual privacy so long intact that its own instinct for preservation had immolated it, its physical phase the strength and fortitude of a man.†   (source)
  • But he knew his Indians, and that when once they had collectively made up their pueblo mind … Moreover, he was a proud old Spaniard, and had a certain fortitude lodged in his well-nourished body.†   (source)
  • It need not be much shorter; in attacks on patience, chastity, and fortitude, the fun is to make the man yield just when (had he but known it) relief was almost in sight.†   (source)
  • But she knew she could no longer endure with any fortitude the sound of his voice when there was no love in it.†   (source)
  • And doubtless what hurt him most in the whole business with Sutpen was not the loss of the money but the fact that he had had to sacrifice the hoarding, the symbol of the fortitude and abnegation, to keep intact the spiritual solvency which he believed that he had already established and secured.†   (source)
  • He had, indeed, for years, directed the thoughts of the young priests whom he instructed to the fortitude and devotion of those first missionaries, the Spanish friars; declaring that his own life, when he first came to New Mexico, was one of ease and comfort compared with theirs.†   (source)
  • …voluble, speaking her bright set meaningless phrases out of the part which she had written for herself, of the duchess peripatetic with property soups and medicines among a soilless and uncompelled peasantry—a woman who, if she had had the fortitude to bear sorrow and trouble, might have risen to actual stardom in the role of the matriarch arbitrating from the fireside corner of a crone the pride and destiny of her family, instead of turning at the last to the youngest member of it and…†   (source)
  • He sees himself offer as a sop fortitude and forbearance and dignity, making it appear that he resigned his pulpit for a martyr's reasons, when at the very instant there was within him a leaping and triumphant surge of denial behind a face which had betrayed him, believing itself safe behind the lifted hymnbook, when the photographer pressed his bulb.†   (source)
  • It was some throwback to the austere and not dim times not so long passed, when a man in that country had little of himself to waste and little time to do it in, and had to guard and protect that little not only from nature but from man too, by means of a sheer fortitude that did not offer, in his lifetime anyway, physical ease for reward.†   (source)
  • Doubtless the only pleasure which he had ever had was not in the meagre Spartan hoard which he had accumulated before his path crossed that of his future son in law, —not in the money but in its representation of a balance in whatever spiritual counting-house he believed would some day pay his sight drafts on self-denial and fortitude.†   (source)
  • That's why although their deaths, the instant of dissolution, are of no importance to them since they have a courage and fortitude in the face of pain and annihilation which would make the most spartan man resemble a puling boy, yet to them their funerals and graves, the little puny affirmations of spurious immortality set above their slumber, are of incalculable importance.†   (source)
  • "Come," I said, "my dear old fellow, summon all your fortitude.†   (source)
  • Hendon made no outcry under the scourge, but bore the heavy blows with soldierly fortitude.†   (source)
  • I am, upon the whole, proud of my fortitude.†   (source)
  • And he prepared himself, with what fortitude he could command for the approach of the outlaws.†   (source)
  • To sit still and watch these two men together was a terrible trial of fortitude.†   (source)
  • "I can bear the trifling inconvenience that he feels with a good deal of fortitude,' said Philip.†   (source)
  • "—"I will," says the lady, "I will learn to suffer with fortitude.†   (source)
  • You had the fortitude to regain the house, assisted by your nurse.†   (source)
  • But active love is labor and fortitude, and for some people too, perhaps, a complete science.†   (source)
  • You must call up all your fortitude, and try to bear it.†   (source)
  • On her deathbed the fortitude and benignity of this best of women did not desert her.†   (source)
  • I rejoiced to see her fortitude, though my heart was ready to break as I gazed on my dear ones.†   (source)
  • "Captain, give over, a brave man must show fortitude," muttered Kolya.†   (source)
  • Do you remember — hear what I say, with fortitude — think of your great object!†   (source)
  • —Emma heard the sad truth with fortitude.†   (source)
  • The shock was too much for the fortitude of the Tetons.†   (source)
  • Great fortitude—great strength of mind.'†   (source)
  • It persists; it is of an undaunted boldness, and of a fortitude not to be wearied out.†   (source)
  • I ought to have more fortitude and self-command than that.†   (source)
  • Yet it inspired him with an inward fortitude, that rose with his love.†   (source)
  • Driving at that hour, on a lovely day, through a country to which the summer sweetness seemed to offer me a friendly welcome, my fortitude mounted afresh and, as we turned into the avenue, encountered a reprieve that was probably but a proof of the point to which it had sunk.†   (source)
  • What she pulls in our store is to come in smiling with Christian Fortitude and keep a clerk busy for one hour while she picks out half a dozen fourpenny nails.†   (source)
  • It was beyond Helen's comprehension how she ever began to disrobe out there in that open, windy desert, but after she had gotten launched on the task she found that it required more fortitude than courage.†   (source)
  • But there was no need for caution; not a soul was at hand, and Tess went onward with fortitude, her recollection of the birds' silent endurance of their night of agony impressing upon her the relativity of sorrows and the tolerable nature of her own, if she could once rise high enough to despise opinion.†   (source)
  • There was one thing of which she was sure—that she would need all the strength and fortitude she could summon.†   (source)
  • "Was pretty good fight, wa'n't it?" he began in a small voice, and the he achieved the fortitude to continue.†   (source)
  • I had steeled myself to brazen it out, though I was trembling inwardly; but the enormous strength of the man was too much for my fortitude.†   (source)
  • He developed a talent for telling them home truths, which made them bear with fortitude his declaration that he had done with that city and was settling in Gerona, a little town in the north of Spain which had attracted him when he saw it from the train on his way to Barcelona.†   (source)
  • It is the higher mental development which induces philosophy and that fortitude which refuses to dwell upon such things—refuses to be made to suffer by their consideration.†   (source)
  • And this cheered her so much that she faced the strange sense of loneliness and discomfort with something of fortitude.†   (source)
  • In this assault upon his fortitude there was the jeering intention of a spiteful and vile vengeance; there was an element of burlesque in his ordeal—a degradation of funny grimaces in the approach of death or dishonour.†   (source)
  • He lay there fifteen hours in the hard frost, and died with the most extraordinary fortitude—I know—what of him?†   (source)
  • Plain indeed was it that he had really expected more of her in the way of complaint and less of fortitude.†   (source)
  • His fortitude had been tried by so many warnings, he had been for weeks surrounded by so many hints of danger, that he wanted the relief of some reality, of something tangible that he could meet.†   (source)
  • She was made comfortable in the old woman's one spare room, and she set herself the task of fortitude and endurance.†   (source)
  • The commonest sort of fortitude prevents us from becoming criminals in a legal sense; it is from weakness unknown, but perhaps suspected, as in some parts of the world you suspect a deadly snake in every bush—from weakness that may lie hidden, watched or unwatched, prayed against or manfully scorned, repressed or maybe ignored more than half a lifetime, not one of us is safe.†   (source)
  • Thou, thyself, must part At last, from all thy garlands, pleasures, triumphs, And prove thy fortitude what then 'twill do.†   (source)
  • There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance.†   (source)
  • An evening with John over the account books usually produced a temporary lull in the culinary enthusiasm, and a frugal fit would ensue, during which the poor man was put through a course of bread pudding, hash, and warmed-over coffee, which tried his soul, although he bore it with praiseworthy fortitude.†   (source)
  • It inspired me with new fortitude and new calmness to find that it was I who was under the necessity of reassuring him.†   (source)
  • Not only the anchor of hope, but the footing of fortitude was gone — at least for a moment; but the last I soon endeavoured to regain.†   (source)
  • That he was surprised by the connection was evident; he sustained it, however, with fortitude, and so far from going away, turned his back with them, and entered into conversation with Mr. Gardiner.†   (source)
  • The old man turned a disappointed look towards Middleton, who was too much occupied in solacing Inez to observe his embarrassment, which was, however, suddenly relieved from a quarter, whence, from previous circumstances, there was little reason to expect such a demonstration of fortitude.†   (source)
  • One black man, who had not fortitude to endure scourging, promised to give information about the conspiracy.†   (source)
  • Her punishment accumulated; she continued to bear it, however, with a good deal of superficial fortitude.†   (source)
  • They designed merely to put his physical fortitude to the severest proofs it could endure, short of that extremity.†   (source)
  • I do myself the pleasure of making a visit to your respected mother occasionally, and of admiring the fortitude and strength of mind with which she bears her trials, bears her trials.'†   (source)
  • Next followed the thought that much of the future peace of mind enjoyable by the dear ones, depended on his quiet fortitude.†   (source)
  • They had fortitude and self-reliance, and in time of difficulty or peril stood up for the welfare of the state like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide.†   (source)
  • CHAPTER X — MRS. SPARSIT'S STAIRCASE MRS. SPARSIT'S nerves being slow to recover their tone, the worthy woman made a stay of some weeks in duration at Mr. Bounderby's retreat, where, notwithstanding her anchorite turn of mind based upon her becoming consciousness of her altered station, she resigned herself with noble fortitude to lodging, as one may say, in clover, and feeding on the fat of the land.†   (source)
  • With the fortitude of a devoted novitiate, she had resolved at one-and-twenty to complete the sacrifice, and retire from all the pleasures of life, of rational intercourse, equal society, peace and hope, to penance and mortification for ever.†   (source)
  • Thus she lived on, a dumb, deep-feeling, great-eyed creature, construed by not a single contiguous being; quenching with patient fortitude her incipient interest in Farfrae, because it seemed to be one-sided, unmaidenly, and unwise.†   (source)
  • The thought was forced upon me: "The rascals—_they_ have served other people so in their day; it being their own turn, now, they were not expecting any better treatment than this; so their philosophical bearing is not an outcome of mental training, intellectual fortitude, reasoning; it is mere animal training; they are white Indians."†   (source)
  • Mr. Camilla interposing, as Mrs. Camilla laid her hand upon her heaving bosom, that lady assumed an unnatural fortitude of manner which I supposed to be expressive of an intention to drop and choke when out of view, and kissing her hand to Miss Havisham, was escorted forth.†   (source)
  • Go, league thyself with a poet, Give the rein to his imagination, Then wear the crown, and show it, Of the qualities of his creation,— The courage of the lion's breed, The wild stag's speed, The Italian's fiery blood, The North's firm fortitude!†   (source)
  • Dounia can endure a great deal and even in the most difficult cases she has the fortitude to maintain her firmness.†   (source)
  • Unhappy are the counsellors of a Prince, who wants fortitude and perseverance alike in good and in evil!†   (source)
  • The battered school-book of Tom's which she held on her knees could give her no fortitude under the pressure of that dread; and again and again her eyes had filled with tears, as they wandered vaguely, seeing neither the chestnut-trees, nor the distant horizon, but only future scenes of home-sorrow.†   (source)
  • Tom consoled himself for the loss of his property, with the loss of his wife, for he was a man of fortitude.†   (source)
  • As his body was unprotected, his sufferings must have been great; but his fortitude was superior to all.†   (source)
  • As Oliver accompanied his master in most of his adult expeditions too, in order that he might acquire that equanimity of demeanour and full command of nerve which was essential to a finished undertaker, he had many opportunities of observing the beautiful resignation and fortitude with which some strong-minded people bear their trials and losses.†   (source)
  • Then, as if at that instant to prove that her fortitude had been more of will than of spontaneity, she silently sank down between them and was a shapeless heap of drapery on the floor.†   (source)
  • At the canoes stole silently along, the roar of the rift became audible, and it required all the fortitude of Cap to keep his seat, while these boding sounds were approached, amid a darkness which scarcely permitted a view of the outlines of the wooded shore and of the gloomy vault above his head.†   (source)
  • He was not only to quit his home, but to see it in the hands of others; a trial of fortitude, which stronger heads than Sir Walter's have found too much.†   (source)
  • To you, Cora, I will urge no words of idle encouragement; your own fortitude and undisturbed reason will teach you all that may become your sex; but cannot we dry the tears of that trembling weeper on your bosom?†   (source)
  • We not require the dull society Of your necessitated temperance, Or that unnatural stupidity That knows nor joy nor sorrow; nor your forc'd Falsely exalted passive fortitude Above the active.†   (source)
  • In Paris he had purchased a bag of hominy at an establishment which called itself an American Agency, and at which the New York illustrated papers were also to be procured, and he had carried it about with him, and shown extreme serenity and fortitude in the somewhat delicate position of having his hominy prepared for him and served at anomalous hours, at the hotels he successively visited.†   (source)
  • I must pause here, for it requires all my fortitude to recall the memory of the frightful events which I am about to relate, in proper detail, to my recollection.†   (source)
  • Yet, for all his hardy sobriety and fortitude, there were certain qualities in him which at times affected, and in some cases seemed well nigh to overbalance all the rest.†   (source)
  • She watched, observed, reflected, and finally determined that this was not a case of fortitude or of resignation only.†   (source)
  • His love, in all its constancy and generosity, had come so suddenly upon me that he had not left me a minute when my fortitude gave way again and the street was blotted out by my rushing tears.†   (source)
  • 'Nay,' returned the old gentlman, drawing her arm through his; 'you have more fortitude than this, I am sure.†   (source)
  • It is in scenes of strife and danger — where courage is proved, and energy exercised, and fortitude tasked — that he will speak and move, the leader and superior.†   (source)
  • Mrs Crummles trod the pavement as if she were going to immediate execution with an animating consciousness of innocence, and that heroic fortitude which virtue alone inspires.†   (source)
  • Victims were frequently shot through the head by too eager or unskilful hands, and it often occurred that, exasperated by the fortitude and taunts of the prisoner, death was dealt intentionally in a moment of ungovernable irritation.†   (source)
  • _ The occurrences of the last few days had been too exciting, and had made too many demands on the fortitude of our heroine, to leave her in the helplessness of grief.†   (source)
  • —for I am the only culprit, Edmond, and if you owe revenge to any one, it is to me, who had not fortitude to bear your absence and my solitude.†   (source)
  • She wished to draw the thoughts of the old warrior from his gloomy recollections, but there was a dignity in his sorrow, and in his fortitude, that repressed her efforts to speak.†   (source)
  • It is true, monsieur; but, so far from weakening our efforts, they set us an example of courage in their own fortitude.†   (source)
  • There was therefore no hope but in passive fortitude, and in that strong reliance on Heaven natural to great and generous characters.†   (source)
  • Not for a moment did her courage and trust in Providence forsake her, and on seeing this, my fortitude revived.†   (source)
  • Mrs Wititterly received the attack upon her veracity with exemplary calmness, and listened with the most heroic fortitude to Kate's account of her own sufferings.†   (source)
  • My father observed with pain the alteration perceptible in my disposition and habits and endeavoured by arguments deduced from the feelings of his serene conscience and guiltless life to inspire me with fortitude and awaken in me the courage to dispel the dark cloud which brooded over me.†   (source)
  • The Templar hesitated, and a resolution which had never yielded to pity or distress, gave way to his admiration of her fortitude.†   (source)
  • What instances must pass before them of ardent, disinterested, self-denying attachment, of heroism, fortitude, patience, resignation: of all the conflicts and all the sacrifices that ennoble us most.†   (source)
  • Still he could not summon fortitude to meet his death, and had not his limbs refused to aid him, he would yet have attempted to fly.†   (source)
  • Most painful to me, and yet productive of lasting happiness, notwithstanding; for it will be happiness to know that I once held the high place in your regard which I now occupy, and every triumph you achieve in life will animate me with new fortitude and firmness.†   (source)
  • But, being a man of fortitude, he bore his suffering a long time, thinking: "I shall expiate everything by this secret agony."†   (source)
  • The general looked around him with slight uneasiness; however he did not yield, but calling up all his fortitude, said,—"I will not swear."†   (source)
  • And when I returned, sometimes a good deal tired, and not a little weather-beaten, I never dared complain, because I saw that to murmur would be to vex him: on all occasions fortitude pleased him; the reverse was a special annoyance.†   (source)
  • So patient she was, so uncomplaining, and inspired by such a gentle fortitude that very often as I sat by Charley holding her head in my arms—repose would come to her, so, when it would come to her in no other attitude—I silently prayed to our Father in heaven that I might not forget the lesson which this little sister taught me.†   (source)
  • They often address their victims in this way, reproaching them for cowardice or commending their resolution, as they may happen to exhibit fortitude or the reverse, in suffering.†   (source)
  • I had always felt my weakness, in comparison with her constancy and fortitude; and now I felt it more and more.†   (source)
  • Perceiving that the attempt was a complete failure, the warriors interfered to put a stop to this scene, and this so much the more because preparations were now seriously making for the commencement of the real tortures, or that which would put the fortitude of the sufferer to the test of severe bodily pain.†   (source)
  • But were the coming narrative to reveal in any instance, the complete abasement of poor Starbuck's fortitude, scarce might I have the heart to write it; for it is a thing most sorrowful, nay shocking, to expose the fall of valour in the soul.†   (source)
  • "I believe I may as well take the credit of fortitude," said Elizabeth, "though I much doubt if flight would have availed me anything, had I even courage to execute such an intention.†   (source)
  • She was delighted with the fortitude of her little friend—for fortitude she knew it was in her to give up being in company and stay at home; and she could now invite the very person whom she really wanted to make the eighth, Jane Fairfax.†   (source)
  • It was one of the peculiarities of the exposure to which those who dwelt on the frontiers of America were liable, to bring out the moral qualities of the women to a degree which they must themselves, under other circumstances, have believed they were incapable of manifesting; and Mabel well knew that the borderers loved to dwell in their legends on the presence of mind, fortitude, and spirit that their wives and sisters had displayed under circumstances the most trying.†   (source)
  • Her character was now fixed on his mind as perfection itself, maintaining the loveliest medium of fortitude and gentleness; but he was obliged to acknowledge that only at Uppercross had he learnt to do her justice, and only at Lyme had he begun to understand himself.†   (source)
  • Not because the way was smooth and placid as a southern sea, but because it was full of dangers and terror, because at every new incident your fortitude was to be called forth and your courage exhibited, because danger and death surrounded it, and these you were to brave and overcome.†   (source)
  • I cannot leave him even now, without remembering with a pang, at once his modest fortitude and his great sorrow.†   (source)
  • They went on in their own wild way for a little while—I never stopped them; I enjoyed it too much myself— and then we gradually fell to considering how young they were, and how there must be a lapse of several years before this early love could come to anything, and how it could come to happiness only if it were real and lasting and inspired them with a steady resolution to do their duty to each other, with constancy, fortitude, and perseverance, each always for the other's sake.†   (source)
  • The patience and forbearance of Indian fortitude could alone support such an appearance of abstraction, as seemed now to have turned each dark and motionless figure into stone.†   (source)
  • Should any little accidental disappointment of the appetite occur, such as the spoiling of a meal, the under or the over dressing of a dish, the incident ought not to be neutralised by replacing with something more delicate the comfort lost, thus pampering the body and obviating the aim of this institution; it ought to be improved to the spiritual edification of the pupils, by encouraging them to evince fortitude under temporary privation.†   (source)
  • "Yes," said the Templar, "I am, Rebecca, as thou hast spoken me, untaught, untamed—and proud, that, amidst a shoal of empty fools and crafty bigots, I have retained the preeminent fortitude that places me above them.†   (source)
  • But at length, such calamities did ensue in these assaults—not restricted to sprained wrists and ankles, broken limbs, or devouring amputations—but fatal to the last degree of fatality; those repeated disastrous repulses, all accumulating and piling their terrors upon Moby Dick; those things had gone far to shake the fortitude of many brave hunters, to whom the story of the White Whale had eventually come.†   (source)
  • The cunning Hurons well knew this fact, and scarce one levelled his piece without first causing it to point as near as possible at the forehead of the prisoner, in the hope that his fortitude would fail him, and that the band would enjoy the triumph of seeing a victim quail under their ingenious cruelty.†   (source)
  • If he had previously sustained his firmness and fortitude, it had been by an effort which had cost him no little pain; but the warm welcome, the hearty manner, the homely unaffected commiseration, of the good old man, went to his heart, and no inward struggle could prevent his showing it.†   (source)
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