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endure as in: endured the pain
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I endured insult and injury without complaint.
endured = suffered through
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As a soldier, she was prepared to endure hardship and even to sacrifice her life for others.
endure = suffer through
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In sudden clarity Kya saw what Ma had endured and why she left.
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endured = suffered through
- He'd endured problem after problem at the Hitler Youth. (source)
- The longest blackout ever had been three minutes and fourteen seconds. Surely this was longer. She could have endured it if she'd been on her own. It was the thought of Poppy, lost, that she couldn't stand— (source)
- I'd endured too much, come too far. (source)
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The tithes endure the occasional jeers and hisses from the terribles, like martyrs.
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endure = suffer through
- I did it over and over, slowing my finger with each pass, watching the way it seemed to cut the flame in half, testing to see how much my finger could endure without actually getting burned. (source)
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He dined on roots, berries, and seaweed, hunted game with spears and snares, dressed in rags, endured the bitter winters.
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endured = suffered through
- Many felt lonely and isolated, having endured abuses that ordinary people couldn't understand. (source)
- I wondered about all the places she'd traveled out there on the waters of the world, all the sad things that had been whispered to her, the things she'd endured. (source)
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Ender Wiggin has provoked Bonzo Madrid beyond human endurance.
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endurance = ability to suffer through difficulty
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If we had been faced only with the prospect of the rain soaking through our clothing each morning and evening, we could have more easily endured the journey between home and school.
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endured = suffered through
- He didn't know what would happen to them next, but it could not be any worse than what they had endured. (source)
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How much loss were we supposed to endure?
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endure = suffer through
- But if making myself vulnerable meant he'd be brave, I'd endure it. (source)
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Meg had felt that when that day came she would never be able to endure it.
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endure = bear (suffer through)
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It [love] is always ready to excuse, to trust, to hope, and to endure whatever comes.
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She looked like she'd endured a bit too much.
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endured = suffered through
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He didn't care at all for the idea of going to the wedding and having to endure seeing Tita together with John.
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endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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He trotted through the sand, enduring the sun's enmity, crossed the platform and found his scattered clothes.
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enduring = suffering through
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Was this what strengthened these New Englanders to endure the winter, the knowledge that summer's return would be all the richer for the waiting?
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endure = continue to bear (suffer through)
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We'll need to be brave to endure the many fears and hardships and the suffering yet to come.
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endure = bear (suffer through)
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They are willing to endure misery and dangers for months on end.
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endure = suffer through
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All were stuck in Wonderland, forced to endure the teeth of Redd's anger.
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endure = bear (suffer through)
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In the past week alone, I've had to endure at least three Chuck Norris jokes a day from Nick.
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endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- The worst we have had to endure here is indifference and a certain understandable shallowness in our personal relationships excluding... (source)
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He was still too young to know that the heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good, and that thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burden of the past.
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endure = suffered through (or put up with something difficult)
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A man can endure only so much abuse before he must strike back.
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endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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Mami acted as if he were a troublesome visitor who had to be endured.
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endured = suffered through (or to put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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I can endure this nurse's hands yanking at the knots in the thick black tangles.
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endure = survive (suffer through)
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I only had to endure six hours and fifteen minutes more.
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endure = suffer through
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The past four years, I've wanted to kill Percy Jackson for what he made us endure.
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endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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...pains they had endured--childbirth, rheumatism, croup, sprains...
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endured = suffered through
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(Can endure waiting no longer.) I'm starting.
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endure = continue to suffer through
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I endured my teaching sessions with Will ... , then spent the rest of my day in the garden, reading or looking at my roses.
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endured = suffered through (or to put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
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endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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the idea of it [becoming a doctor] will help you to endure school
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endure = to suffer through (or put up with)
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They had marched as far as the hobbits could endure without a rest,
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endure = suffer through (or continue with something difficult)
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I do not think I could endure that
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endure = continue to suffer through
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He had felt incapable of enduring the boredom of the dinner,
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enduring = suffering through
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By eight o'clock on a Tuesday night, you will experience the ecstasy of victory or you will endure the agony of defeat.
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endure = suffer through
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How, with luck and courage and endurance, they might have found a way.
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endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
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we endured postponement after postponement.
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endured = suffered through
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Tayo could not endure it any longer.
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endure = put up with
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Many terrors I endured, many spells did I utter, to find it, when I was still young.
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endured = suffered through
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A Michigan sergeant in his forties, also a farmer, wrote his wife from Georgia in the spring of 1864 that "the more I learn of the cursed institution of Slavery, the more I feel willing to endure, for its final destruction…."
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endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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But we had come too far, hoped too high, endured too much, to turn back now.
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endured = suffered through (or to put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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For Gordon it will be harder. ... But he will endure, Marta, and he will win his battle.
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endure = suffer through it (something difficult or unpleasant)
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as he had found a way to endure losing them.
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endure = suffer through
- Just do your best to endure it and... (source)
- But before death (nobody spoke of such things, yet everybody knew of them) there was the routine of confession that had to be gone through: the grovelling on the floor and screaming for mercy, the crack of broken bones, the smashed teeth, and bloody clots of hair. Why did you have to endure it, since the end was always the same? (source)
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She convinced herself of it, and cried into her handkerchief, as if the very suggestion was more than she could endure.
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endure = bear (suffer through)
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I soon found out this much:—terror can be endured so long as a man simply ducks;—but it kills, if a man thinks about it.
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endured = suffered through
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Gradually, Scarlett drew courage from the brave faces of her friends and from the merciful adjustment which nature makes when what cannot be cured must be endured.
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endured = suffered through (or put up with)
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something so terrible and sickening that no one could endure the thought much less the action.
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endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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I've been so used in my early days to having people cross at me that I can endure it much better than Diana can.
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endure = bear (suffer through)
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All the pain he had endured was as nothing compared with the exquisite agony of this.
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endured = suffered through
- And besides there is nothing in all the world that can give me more pain than I have already endured, than I suffer now! (source)
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She could not endure it.
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endure = suffer through
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he was getting to the end of his endurance, and when he thought of going back to work in the morning he shuddered with horror.
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endurance = ability to suffer through
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The lesson of the West had been to endure, not to shirk--to face an issue, not to hide.
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endure = work through the difficult (suffer through)
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He says to Boggs, mighty calm and slow—he says: "I'm tired of this, but I'll endure it till one o'clock."
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endure = continue to bear (suffer through, or put up with)
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I endure my sorrow,
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endure = suffer through
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I cannot endure the thought of that!
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endure = suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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And would that I might endure his agony as well as mine!
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endure = bear (suffer through)
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I know that had I been a sanguine, brilliant, careless, exacting, handsome, romping child — though equally dependent and friendless — Mrs. Reed would have endured my presence more complacently; her children would have entertained for me more of the cordiality of fellow-feeling; the servants would have been less prone to make me the scapegoat of the nursery.
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endured = put up with
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...anything was preferable to the solitude which I had so long endured,
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endured = suffered through
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Mad with the agonies he endures from these fresh attacks, the infuriated Sperm Whale rolls over and over;
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endures = suffers through
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I must try to endure it another hour...
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endure = put up with
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Having already had more than a taste of them in the house of my old master, and having endured them there,
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endured = suffered through
- I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep; (source)
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my friend who was very dear to me and endured dangers beside me,
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endured = suffered through something difficult
- Besides setting a bladder endurance record, I learned never to drink anything on the morning of bazaar day.† (source)
- The next few days passed in practice maneuvers that pushed many of the inexperienced volunteers to the limits of their endurance.† (source)
- The rest of this story is nothing but grief, ache and endurance.† (source)
- I thought of all that extra training—the endless conversations about weight and distance, fitness and endurance.† (source)
- "A testimony to endurance" is what she called it.† (source)
- Let it drown, Harry thought, his scar burning almost past endurance, please....let it drown...Wormtail was speaking.† (source)
- His parents' grandfather clock still ticked away after all these years with a maniacal endurance.† (source)
- I'd run on their rubberized track, three miles for endurance and then interval work for strength.† (source)
- He had come out of nowhere, Mohammed Zeitoun, a sailor's son from the tiny island of Arwad, and stunned everyone with his strength and endurance.† (source)
- But these were not so much choices as endurance measures: the useless scurries and freezes of a mouse in a snake tank, serving only to prolong discomfort and suspense.† (source)
- Part of it is endurance, part of it is motivation.† (source)
- Which of us has the greater endurance?† (source)
- Endurance.† (source)
- They had a legendary endurance, but there would be no avoiding the price, either.† (source)
- Each of these items of news raised our spirits, strengthening our powers of endurance and our belief that Germany would be defeated in the near future.† (source)
- For which, at the end of Beethoven's emotional endurance test, he has one word.† (source)
- We couldn't have outraced it even if Seivarden hadn't begun to half-stumble, catching herself, but clearly at the end of her endurance.† (source)
- When he left the store that first day, as motes of dust filled the space he left behind, her own life seemed drab beyond endurance.† (source)
- The dogs continually cause wonder with their endurance, joy, and intelligence.† (source)
- And then he'd got a job on the boats that plied up and down the St. Lawrence River, and then on the Lake boats, which were glad to have him, as he was very strong, with a grand lot of endurance, and could work without stopping, just like a steam engine; and that was well enough for a time.† (source)
- As December temperatures fell, the roll calls became true endurance tests and many did not survive.† (source)
- Patrice came and sat on the floor by my chair, patting my leg with a little boy's solemn endurance.† (source)
- It's five and a half days of continuous beat-down designed to see if you have the endurance and the will to become the ultimate warrior.† (source)
- The gathering was roused into commotion instantly, but I insisted that I was tired beyond endurance.† (source)
- It'll do you good—try to think of it as endurance training.† (source)
- The two hours required to transit the channel would tax not his seamanship but his endurance.† (source)
- Later on, she'll expect more endurance.† (source)
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endure as in: endure through the ages
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She is gone, but her teachings endure through the ages.
endure = continue to exist
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Over the years, the stories my grandmother told me have endured as a source of wisdom in my life.
endured = continued to exist
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Four score and seven years ago, our fathers brought forth upon this continent a new nation: conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure.
endure = continue to exist
- Weeping may endure for a night, but how many of you know that JOY—! (source)
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She knew this was not a dark side to Nature, just inventive ways to endure against all odds.
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endure = continued to exist
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Papa, to his enduring credit, was adamant.
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enduring = lasting (continuing to exist through time)
- As bad as were the physical consequences of captivity, the emotional injuries were much more insidious, widespread, and enduring. (source)
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For during that time he had to endure.
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endure = survive
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Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.
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endures = lasts forever
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The filmy enchantments of mirage could not endure the cold ocean water and the horizon was hard, clipped blue.
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endure = survive (continue to exist in)
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Our friendship shall endure, Eragon.
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- You will endure, Fai. (source)
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Most of their earlier settlements had long disappeared and been forgotten in Bilbo's time; but one of the first to become important still endured, though reduced in size;
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endured = continued to exist
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the human body as transitory and fragile and, by contrast, the soul as enduring.
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enduring = continuing to exist
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We want a peace that endures.
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endures = continues to exist
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Their memory of people endured long after all other traces of domestication were gone;
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endured = continued to exist
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the thing she resented with enduring anger and distaste,
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enduring = lasting (continuing to exist through time)
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That it sought power because men in the mass were frail cowardly creatures who could not endure liberty or face the truth, and must be ruled over and systematically deceived by others who were stronger than themselves.
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endure = survive (continue to exist in)
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A pause; it endured horribly.
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endured = lasted (continue to exist)
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[of war] I see that the keenest brains of the world invent weapons and words to make it yet more refined and enduring.
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enduring = lasting (continuing to exist through time)
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I solemnly swear to be faithful to my bosom friend, Diana Barry, as long as the sun and moon shall endure.
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endure = continued to exist
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They were all too soft, dying under the toil, the frost, and starvation. Buck was the exception. He alone endured and prospered, matching the husky in strength, savagery, and cunning.
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endured = survived
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just a will to endure and a foreknowing of defeat
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endure = continue to exist
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She was so good and brave that we all felt that our hearts were strengthened to work and endure for her, and we began to discuss what we were to do.
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endure = continue to work through hardships
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And that fear shall endure a little longer.
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endure = continue to exist
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She was before him, provocative, enduring.
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enduring = continuing to exist
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This old mountain ... endured because of the spirit of nature.
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endured = continued to exist
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...quite the subtlest, most enduring odor I ever met.
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enduring = continuing to exist
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The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
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enduring = lasting (continue to exist)
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...this Starbuck seemed prepared to endure for long ages to come,
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endure = survive or continue to exist
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The meal hardly endured ten minutes.
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endured = lasted; or continued to exist
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they have endured but an instant
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endured = lasted (continued to exist)
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The tranquillity which I now enjoyed did not endure.
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endure = continue to exist
- He then took his leave with a boyish exuberance of gayety, assuring her that her seclusion would endure but a little longer, (source)
- Now we are engaged in a great civil war. . .testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated. . . can long endure. (source)
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In her usefulness, in Fanny's excellence, in William's continued good conduct and rising fame, and in the general well-doing and success of the other members of the family, all assisting to advance each other, and doing credit to his countenance and aid, Sir Thomas saw repeated, and for ever repeated, reason to rejoice in what he had done for them all, and acknowledge the advantages of early hardship and discipline, and the consciousness of being born to struggle and endure.
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endure = work through hardships
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Enkidu cried to Gilgamesh, "My friend, we boasted that we would leave enduring names behind us."
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enduring = continuing to exist
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But men are better than gates, and no gate will endure against our Enemy if men desert it.
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endure = continue to exist
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That was why I couldn't say anything or listen to anything about him, because he endured so forcefully that what I had to say would have seemed crazy to anyone else—I could not use the past tense, for instance—and what they had to say would be incomprehensible to me.
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endured = continued to exist
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Time ticked on, and still Louie remained in the same position, conscious and yet not, the beam over his head, his eyes on the Bird's face, enduring long past when his strength should have given out.
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enduring = lasting (continuing through time)
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the spell endured
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And what way of knowing that the dominion of the Party would not endure forever?
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endure = survive (continue to exist in)
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It would never endure.
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endure = survive (continue to exist)
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If he could get her at a table by herself, somewhere in the middle of the room, not too near the telescreens, and with a sufficient buzz of conversation all round — if these conditions endured for, say, thirty seconds, it might be possible to exchange a few words.
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endured = lasted (continue to exist)
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I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure;
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endure = last (continue to exist)
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Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but mutability!
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endure = continue to exist
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This endured for some time.
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That would be terrible; I don't think I could endure it; most likely I would go into consumption; I'm so thin as it is, you see.
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endure = survive
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But this was a luxury of sensation that could not endure; I became fatigued with excess of bodily exertion and sank on the damp grass in the sick impotence of despair.
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endure = continue to exist
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He had escaped me, and I must commence a destructive and almost endless journey across the mountainous ices of the ocean, amidst cold that few of the inhabitants could long endure and which I, the native of a genial and sunny climate, could not hope to survive.
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endure = survive (continue to exist in)
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I could only think of the bourne of my travels and the work which was to occupy me whilst they endured.
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endured = lasted (continued to exist)
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Six years had passed since then: I was a wreck, but nought had changed in those savage and enduring scenes.
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enduring = continuing to exist (through time in memory)
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Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue and the dreadful suspense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm joy to my heart, and tears gushed from my eyes.
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endured = lasted (continued to exist)
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The wonder is, he hath endur'd so long:
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endur'd = lasted (continued to survive)unconventional spelling: This is more commonly spelled endured.
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The business she hath broached in the state Cannot endure my absence.
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endure = survive (continue to exist in)
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But worldly joy may not always endure
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endure = continue to exist
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- What must be endured is beyond (word scratched out).† (source)
- Fresh air poured across his face, hot from the August sun but soothingly cool after what he'd endured in the rafters.† (source)
- Together, my relatives form an alliance that represents a genuine and enduring love of family, one that sustains them through difficulties and gives them reasons to celebrate during good times.† (source)
- These were the enemies of every faction, and they had no choice but to endure cruel attacks from every side.† (source)
- After all we'd been through, I just had to endure one more day.† (source)
- They belonged in an age of elaborate artifice and base superstition—when a lucky few dined on cutlets of veal and the majority endured in ignorance.† (source)
- I started to understand that Mamaw saw returning to Jackson as a duty to endure rather than a source of enjoyment.† (source)
- The visions they once had of themselves, as daughters, sisters, wives and mothers, workers, travelers, and lovers, will forever be tainted by what they've witnessed and endured.† (source)
- You yourself know the abuse our people are forced to endure.† (source)
- They still exist, locked away in their various prisons, forced to endure endless pain and punishment, reduced in power, but still very much alive.† (source)
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- But here in the desert, nothing green could survive except tiny evergreen acacia bushes, which somehow endured the long winter months with almost no water.† (source)
- I knew this would be the last time I would have to endure this depressing song.† (source)
- Nothing, I thought, could ever push me to return to the lifeboat and to the suffering and deprivation I had endured on it—nothing!† (source)
- Having endured six previous deliveries, she knew what to expect and thought she'd make the best of it without prenatal care.† (source)
- Every hurt he'd ever suffered, every ache he'd ever endured-it was all as gone as an expired breath.† (source)
- Will endured all this attention in near silence, answering Nathan's questions with a yes or no, so indistinct sometimes that I wasn't sure if he knew what he was saying.† (source)
- A woman who will be like a rock in a riverbed, enduring without complaint, her grace not sullied but shaped by the turbulence that washes over her.† (source)
- Looking down the peaceful street, it seemed no one could imagine the terror we had all endured.† (source)
- The royal bloodline of Jesus Christ is the source of the most enduring legend of all time—the Holy Grail.† (source)
- She lets Penny put hats on her and somehow endures Penny's hugs, which can sometimes feel more like choke holds.† (source)
- It was a relief to return to the noise and bustle of the main school on Monday, where he was forced to think about other things, eve', if he had to endure Draco Malfoys taunting.† (source)
- All the dangers he is willing to endure.† (source)
- IF YOU WERE OUR MASTER, WE WOULD KEEP YOU SAFE AND PROTECT YOU UNTIL THE END OF TIME AND NEVER LET YOU ENDURE THE DANGERS OF THE WORLD.† (source)
- Watney, barely recovered from the earlier shock, now endured another as he hit the front door, face-first.† (source)
- After enduring three such weddings, the neighbors formed a committee and sent a spy into the Hamilton-Turner House on a fact-finding mission.† (source)
- Then Cole felt a growing resentment that he was being forced to endure this lonely existence.† (source)
- Well, said Fujiko, now your father is gone, folding laundry in a camp in Montana, and we all must get by, endure.† (source)
- His smile told me what to do—be patient, endure, maintain hope—and I wondered where it came from with him, this endless stoicism.† (source)
- Leola had to endure hours of painful reconstructive surgery, during which her husband left her because she didn't have any lips (which I guess is why the movie is called Why Me?)† (source)
- This is why I endure arms so sore and weak that they feel like wet noodles.† (source)
- We want to thank all of those who helped search for our daughter three years ago for their enduring support.† (source)
- Alex tried to ignore the last reason she was fighting to stay on this case-the one that pricked like a thorn, like a splinter, rubbing raw no matter which way she came at it: she had a better chance of learning from the prosecution and the defense what her daughter had endured than she ever would from Josie herself.† (source)
- At an age when most of our peers were enduring how much their parents bossed them around, Owen was always telling his father what to do.† (source)
- Immediately all the feelings of captivity Thomas had endured in the white-walled prison came flooding back.† (source)
- Not to have to endure the look in Raleigh Leefolt's eyes when he sees that I'm tagging along again.† (source)
- Running in the mornings and reading in the afternoons gave him just enough stability to endure the zany nights at the McNabs'.† (source)
- Your father ordered that I was to be kept alive for as long as possible—to endure the misery that Endovier gives in abundance.† (source)
- But if it meant that I'd finally be able to put my grandfather's mystery to rest and get on with my unextraordinary life, anything I had to endure would be worth it.† (source)
- Only here, where the King in the North threw back every army that tried to cross the Neck, did the rule of the First Men endure.† (source)
- What I am about to do, whatever any of us are forced to endure, it is for them.† (source)
- Archeon was built to endure war, not peace.† (source)
- "As the sword was cutting me down," said the ghost, "I thought this was the worst I would ever have to endure.† (source)
- It was four in the morning before my body could finally endure no more, and despite the turbulence in my brain, I slept— —and dreamed I was running along the beach.† (source)
- The reasoning for all this becomes clear—they wanted to develop those tissue samples into something, I don't know what—pills, contact lenses, whatever could improve our soldiers, to make them run faster, see better, think smarter, or endure harsher conditions.† (source)
- A few years later, when Robbie won his scholarship to the local grammar, Jack Tallis took the first step in an enduring patronage by paying for the uniform and textbooks.† (source)
- Then see you any ones who endure among them?† (source)
- Could you endure a fraction of that agony?† (source)
- He ate terrible food; endured embarrassment and humiliation as he used the toilet in front of his cellmates; and even heard, late one night, the horrifying but unmistakable sounds of a boy being raped.† (source)
- Fearful that her mother would suspect something, Tita hurried back to bed where she passed a tortured night, enduring her desire to urinate along with another urge.† (source)
- She was twelve, with chubby cheeks and heavy legs—all the things she'd felt grateful her daughters had escaped had been her son's to endure.† (source)
- It was strengthened by a single enduring belief that together, we as one people are strong.† (source)
- Recently, after enduring more than half a century of relentless, pernickety attention, the ornamental garden had been abandoned.† (source)
- For the first time, looking at that beautiful face is too much to endure.† (source)
- He felt he could scarcely endure another meal of plain fish.† (source)
- They told us the departing Jews were going to better lives away from the city, where they would be in less crowded conditions and not have to endure the relentless harassment from German soldiers patrolling the streets.† (source)
- I never realized, though, that by hiding him away from this gossiping, judgmental world, I ensured that my son would emerge shrouded in worse suspicion than I ever endured.† (source)
- A pain that began before time and would endure forever.† (source)
- He had endured midwinter darkness in Russia where the temperature dropped to forty below: endless blizzards, snow and black ice, the only cheer the green neon palm tree that burned twenty-four hours a day outside the provincial bar where his father liked to drink.† (source)
- She belonged to a world so well acquainted with fatal gunshots that she had certain expectations about how they ought to be endured.† (source)
- Outside the church after dinner, many migrants engage in a crude kind of street therapy: Who has endured the worst riding the trains?† (source)
- Their flights had been the most painful ordeal he had ever endured.† (source)
- I couldn't endure the mockery, or the disgrace, or the patriotic ridicule.† (source)
- Project Student, in fact, involved more than just Chicanos; whites and others also had to endure these conditions.† (source)
- I would not endure it again.† (source)
- The clanging was back in her head but she refused to believe that she had come all that way, endured all she had, to die on the wrong side of the river.† (source)
- Sol held Rachel and endured.† (source)
- A swimming pool in Florida, we soon learned, made the difference between barely enduring the withering summer months and actually enjoying them.† (source)
- They were simpler pains, easier to endure.† (source)
- I'm sure I could never have told my story otherwise; I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.† (source)
- I remember a whole series of days when we had to stay in bed because the temperature in the flat was too cold to endure.† (source)
- His body was bruised and broken as if he had endured all the tortures in La Fortaleza he had ever described to me.† (source)
- We still have fifteen minutes of that wretched movie left to endure in Biology — I don't think I could take any more.† (source)
- Far more than the amount of work he faces, he dreads the month of separation they will have to endure at winter break.† (source)
- She worked her students hard, enduring those parents who complained that she expected too much from kids.† (source)
- The enduring appeal of this cautionary tale suggests how deeply embedded it is in our collective consciousness.† (source)
- The work of Nathaniel's beloved Beethoven has endured through parts of three centuries and will last beyond our time.† (source)
- The Hebrews passage flashed into my mind: "Let us fix our eyes on Jesus, the author and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy set before him endured the cross, scorning its shame, and sat down at the right hand of the throne of God.† (source)
- Clearly this man had heard this tale before and was not prepared to endure it a second time.† (source)
- She had endured events at Imeperhaps even enforced the corrupt dictates of the governor herself, when ordered.† (source)
- The gate became a landmark that endured into the twenty-first century, long after the last hog crossed to eternity over the great wooden ramp called the Bridge of Sighs.† (source)
- Every other day he endured the punishment.† (source)
- No other continent has endured such an unspeakably bizarre combination of foreign thievery and foreign goodwill.† (source)
- She fell clumsily to her knees, enduring another bolt of pain from her swollen and bleeding leg, and looked under the bed.† (source)
- THIS TIME WE WERE IN the Great Room enduring another etiquette lesson when bricks came flying through the window.† (source)
- Even Britain was not immune from this phenomenon, in fact some said Britain had already split, like a man whose head had been chopped off and yet still stood, and others said Britain was an island, and islands endure, even if the people who come to them change, and so it had been for millennia, and so it would be for millennia more.† (source)
- I wondered where on earth she thought there was enough money to pay for such brutal days as I was enduring.† (source)
- The Cynics and the Stoics believed in enduring pain of all kinds, which is not the same as setting out to avoid pain.† (source)
- Only that relief which weariness at last imposes, when neither mind nor body can endure the terror any longer.† (source)
- What have we done to endure this?† (source)
- I didn't need it to endure or sustain.† (source)
- It endures.† (source)
- The ride became rocky as Parker descended through the clouds, and it occurred to Ryan that they were on the leading edge of the same storm he'd endured the night before.† (source)
- So much had changed, but what endured was love and trust.† (source)
- I am the one whose word endures.† (source)
- She told herself that she had to endure a few hours without her nerves betraying her, until her grandfather was able to set in motion the heavy machinery of his power and influence to get her out of there.† (source)
- Every single recruit who joins the navy has to endure that exercise.† (source)
- She didn't feel that she could be herself there, and she was willing to endure a split with her family to live in a place where she could live the life she pleased.† (source)
- When I came home I knew what to expect, and I prepared myself to endure it.† (source)
- But for the most part it is a relief for me to not have to endure her moods and the jealousy she harbored.† (source)
- From 1861 through 1865, the United States endured a bloody civil war between Northern and Southern states.† (source)
- After much laughter, Hildebranda confessed that she could no longer endure the torture of her boots.† (source)
- One can only guess how long it took for the poor girl to die, or what torment she must have endured.† (source)
- Your daughters will not lift the curse, and so I must work the magic beyond evil, the magic that endures forever—† (source)
- I'm not sure I can endure any more heartbreak.† (source)
- When we finally pulled in after enduring the ride, standing there was an array of folks sporting cameras, taking pictures, and shouting "Tebow ...Tebow ...Tebow."† (source)
- A human would remain in the trap, endure the pain, feigning death that he might kill the trapper and remove a threat to his kind.† (source)
- He managed to endure the whole boring week of school for that one half hour on Friday afternoons when they'd sit on the worn-out rug on the floor of the teachers' room (there was no place else in the building for Miss Edmunds to spread out all her stuff) and sing songs like "My Beautiful Balloon,"† (source)
- His touch was deceptively soft, which made it all the more painful to endure.† (source)
- My da used to say it's good to test your limits now and then, learn what the body is capable of, what you can endure.† (source)
- We all assume Dennis Heimline died, of course, given the nature of the things he must have endured at the asylum.† (source)
- Taske, Hutchison, Kasischke, and Fischbeck had each spent as much as $70,000 and endured weeks of agony to be granted this one shot at the summit.† (source)
- Even now, Coalwood endures, and no one, nor careless industry or overzealous government, can ever completely destroy it—not while we who once lived there may recall our life among its places, or especially remember rockets that once leapt into the air, propelled not by physics but by the vibrant love of an honorable people, and the instruction of a dear teacher, and the dreams of boys.† (source)
- Something that had endured for years was ending in this moment.† (source)
- It's more that I can't help thinking that if I'd never been born in the first place, I wouldn't be facing those sixty-seven nights, I wouldn't be right here, right now, having just endured that conversation with her.† (source)
- No doubt, this has to do with the late hour, and the trying nature of the events I have had to endure this evening.† (source)
- Love could be set in motion quickly, but true love needed time to grow into something strong and enduring.† (source)
- That it had so prospered, let alone endured the ruthless round of drought, flood and felony, was mainly due to Tom's grandfather John.† (source)
- I met hard-working, illiterate, religious people willing to risk injury and endure pain for the benefit of their families.† (source)
- And they could still feel the sting on their rears as they endured Principal Williams's wooden paddle.† (source)
- At first she did not answer him, seemed merely to be enduring him, seemed suspended, hanging, waiting.† (source)
- I think it was fated for me to taste the dregs of this humiliation that I might know just what it is that all the women and children are enduring through no fault of their own.† (source)
- There she endured her agonals and committed her soul to Christ.† (source)
- She walked five miles to the nearest bus stop, waited two days for a bus, then endured the grueling journey to a town with a health center.† (source)
- Catch the downhill thrill, you want to ride again, enough to endure the long, hard climb back up again.† (source)
- Even Isa isn't aware of all the abuses he's endured at home.† (source)
- Death would have been better than what I endured.† (source)
- Side by side, they had endured the suffering, the blows; they had waited for their ration of bread and they had prayed.† (source)
- Which, to be honest, I can't endure.† (source)
- And when she had endured this one last thing for her, she would push it up there, too, and then one day give it all to her—Ciel wanted no part of it.† (source)
- At last, after September, another weather arrives, an Indian summer that occasionally endures until Christmas.† (source)
- It wasn't long before Mrs. Michaels, enduring her monthly appointment, delivered.† (source)
- A minute was all I could endure because I was beginning to feel how I had screwed up more lives than just my own.† (source)
- Theoretically, five should be five times more severe than what you've just endured, so please be specific in your answers.† (source)
- I endured six months of Hattie and Olive and Mum Olga by imagining my freedom when Lucinda released me from the curse.† (source)
- The white mourning clothes he wore hit Luke like a slap in the face, a reminder of all the death they'd just endured here, and were about to endure again.† (source)
- I wanted very much to be a person of value and I had to ask myself how this could be possible if there were not something like a soul or like a spirit that is in the life of a person and which could endure any misfortune or disfigurement and yet be no less for it.† (source)
- Xavier endured these witticisms silently.† (source)
- He wondered at her; born amid these wide, cool spaces, how had she endured for a week the fetid atmosphere of the factory rooms?† (source)
- And he endures, he goes on.† (source)
- "The sufferings we endured are beyond description—no tent to cover us at night—exposed to cold and rains day and night," one soldier would remember.† (source)
- Holding her tightly in his arms and feeling her body tremble, he thought he could not endure his love.† (source)
- I endure it, for the time.† (source)
- In a country that's in a hurry to make the future, the names attached to the products are an enduring reassurance.† (source)
- How could one or two or even a mouthful of angry tooth roots meet a wagonload of powhitetrash children, endure their idiotic snobbery and not feel less important?† (source)
- In addition, some of these who people were Polish, not Russian, and between the two nationalities old hatreds still endured.† (source)
- Just when I felt I could not endure another moment of breathing the same air as the Pritchards, we came to London.† (source)
- If this naming revolution was indeed inspired by Black Power, it would be one of the movement's most enduring remnants.† (source)
- The false black mustache was a flamboyant organ-grinder's, and he wore them both to the basketball game one day when he felt he could endure his loneliness no longer.† (source)
- I understand him better now, understand the pounding his character endured in that defining time overseas.† (source)
- She could not endure the heat, and after a while she had to go out on the sidewalk and sit on her apple crate.† (source)
- These are the things for which I am willing to face and endure the less pleasant realities of this world.† (source)
- Sex with Moody was merely one of many ugly experiences I knew I would have to endure in order to fight for freedom.† (source)
- I think she's grateful not to have to explain that she's an orphan and endure everyone's polite, silent pity.† (source)
- If I get angry he is scornful and silent, sometimes he does not speak to me for hours and I cannot endure it any more, I cannot.† (source)
- He is considered one of the best in the business, willing to endure any danger to get a great photo.† (source)
- No angel can endure such solitude for long, even you.† (source)
- He knows that it is not one of the Three, for they have never been lost, and they endure no evil.† (source)
- He believed America would win the war, and he knew, even after all he'd endured, that if he had a future it still lay in this country.† (source)
- "You like him," the bartender teased as Wesley, after enduring a verbal tirade from yours truly, went off to dance with a giggling bimbo.† (source)
- And yet there endured the legend that somewhere out over the down there lived a great and solitary rabbit, a giant who drove the elil like mice and sometimes went to silflay in the sky.† (source)
- And Jack acted as if whatever danger or inconvenience he had to endure would be worth the trouble, as long as he could remain in close proximity to Aven.† (source)
- He endures them in an agonizing fit of nervousness.† (source)
- But I do remember how his voice seemed to blend with the cadences of the stream and give the words an enduring music.† (source)
- She endured grins and friendly winks with equanimity—they almost made her feel better.† (source)
- But I will show him what a man can do and what a man endures.† (source)
- And being the last survivor, he endured increased demands from authors, journalists, and documentarians.† (source)
- In a flash he recalled every action movie he had ever seen, every stupid wrestling match that he had been forced to endure on Saturday mornings at Henry's house.† (source)
- Jason wrote it all down, as if he were enduring an hour-long eye-poke.† (source)
- The hardships Reichardt and Wickwire had endured to reach the summit were legendary in mountain lore.† (source)
- I spent every leave training with Grandfather, enduring beatings and harsh discipline but gaining, in return, a distinct edge over my classmates.† (source)
- Anything to make up for what she'd had to endure.† (source)
- such as Cary Grant and Katharine Hepburn, clung to it with enduring success even after that accent lost its prestige, but soon more American-sounding actors, such as John Wayne and Gary Cooper, dominated the screens.† (source)
- Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make endures forever.† (source)
- The holiness of the mountain infused into their own spirits enabled them to endure far more than anything he, with his greater physical strength, could take.† (source)
- He didn't know whether he could endure the awful loneliness any more.† (source)
- For their most innocent words were acts of violence to which we of the campus were hypersensitive though we endured them not.† (source)
- He refused bail and instead called in members of the press to say he would endure confinement because the fact that he, a white slave owner, was being sued by his own slaves for the conditions of their captivity, was a "national matter with which all Americans should heed and take notice."† (source)
- What had endured was the warmth and simplicity of the community, which took me back to my days as a boy.† (source)
- We Russians protect our flanks; it's a lesson we learned from the tragedy and the triumph of Stalingrad-an experience you Americans never had to endure.† (source)
- Few men have endured the kind of ordeal you faced in the desert, not to mention the divorce.† (source)
- If it were held at Belmont, Seabiscuit would have to endure a five-day, 3,200-mile train trip to get there.† (source)
- Makes me sick to think about what happened next but don't suppose they lived through as long an ordeal as Marie Lyons endured.† (source)
- These days, it's nearly impossible to endure even her own bakeries—the wormy curves of the buttery croissants, the gluey honey buns with fat pecans trapped like roaches in the cinnamon crevices.† (source)
- He loved it because he knew he could endure the pain, and even go beyond it.† (source)
- Maybe they figured humor would help us endure.† (source)
- He then had to endure two hundred meters of rope cascading down upon him and striking in rapid unavoidable blows.† (source)
- After years of enduring Mother's misery, head games, and torture, I now had control over something she desperately craved.† (source)
- The things she had endured had now receded into some outer fog, like pain that still exists, but has no power to hurt.† (source)
- For nothing is more suitable to persons of gravity and decorum than to endure minor inconveniences with constancy.† (source)
- I had no hope except that one day things might improve if I endured.† (source)
- Butyour daughter is underdeveloped for her age, even for your village, which has endured difficult years.† (source)
- Outside the barn he stood immobile for some time, forcing himself to endure the cold and his impatience, while his sight readapted to the darkness.† (source)
- We endured, while the sharpness dimmed, and the pressure ebbed away.† (source)
- He was afraid that he was too weak to hold on to her with one arm, that he would drop her, so he endured the gouging steel.† (source)
- As get-to-know you games go, this isn't the worst I've endured.† (source)
- If you bite your lip and understand that this is the only world, you will perhaps persist and endure.† (source)
- Are you able to endure the ordeal of jail?† (source)
- But she never let them forget what she had endured, all because of what they had done.† (source)
- It was a steady, uninspired life much appreciated by Lou right now Head lice had made their way through Big Spruce, though, and both Lou and Oz had endured shampoos in kerosene.† (source)
- We endured hard times with hopes and dreams of doing the inconceivable.† (source)
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