All 43 Uses of
endure
in
Frankenstein - 1831 version
- I accompanied the whale-fishers on several expeditions to the North Sea; I voluntarily endured cold, famine, thirst, and want of sleep;
p. 17.2 *endured = suffered through
- You may easily imagine that I was much gratified by the offered communication, yet I could not endure that he should renew his grief by a recital of his misfortunes.
p. 31.5endure = bear (suffer through)
- ...the sorrows she had endured...
p. 35.0endured = suffered through
- Unable to endure the aspect of the being I had created, I rushed out of the room and continued a long time traversing my bed-chamber, unable to compose my mind to sleep.
p. 58.9endure = bear (suffer through)
- At length lassitude succeeded to the tumult I had before endured, and I threw myself on the bed in my clothes, endeavouring to seek a few moments of forgetfulness.
p. 59.0endured = suffered through
- I trembled excessively; I could not endure to think of, and far less to allude to, the occurrences of the preceding night.
p. 61.8endure = bear (suffer through)
- This girl had always been the favourite of her father, but through a strange perversity, her mother could not endure her, and after the death of M. Moritz, treated her very ill.
p. 66.5endure = put up with
- I prophesied truly, and failed only in one single circumstance, that in all the misery I imagined and dreaded, I did not conceive the hundredth part of the anguish I was destined to endure.
p. 77.0endure = suffer through
- I had before experienced sensations of horror, and I have endeavoured to bestow upon them adequate expressions, but words cannot convey an idea of the heart-sickening despair that I then endured.
p. 87.2endured = suffered through
- God raises my weakness and gives me courage to endure the worst.
p. 89.1endure = suffer through
- Six years had passed since then: I was a wreck, but nought had changed in those savage and enduring scenes.
p. 97.4enduring = continuing to exist (through time in memory)
- Exhaustion succeeded to the extreme fatigue both of body and of mind which I had endured.
p. 98.8endured = suffered through
- Man's yesterday may ne'er be like his morrow; Nought may endure but mutability!
p. 101.2endure = continue to exist
- ...I never ventured abroad during daylight, fearful of meeting with the same treatment I had formerly endured in the first village which I entered.
p. 121.8endured = suffered through
- Felix soon learned that the treacherous Turk, for whom he and his family endured such unheard-of oppression, on discovering that his deliverer was thus reduced to poverty and ruin, became a traitor to good feeling and honour and had quitted Italy with his daughter, insultingly sending Felix a pittance of money to aid him, as he said, in some plan of future maintenance.
p. 128.7
- He could have endured poverty, and while this distress had been the meed of his virtue, he gloried in it; but the ingratitude of the Turk and the loss of his beloved Safie were misfortunes more bitter and irreparable.
p. 128.9
- Yet I did not heed the bleakness of the weather; I was better fitted by my conformation for the endurance of cold than heat.
p. 134.3endurance = ability to suffer through difficulty
- 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.
p. 138.7endure = continue to exist
- My travels were long and the sufferings I endured intense.
p. 141.9endured = suffered through
- My daily vows rose for revenge—a deep and deadly revenge, such as would alone compensate for the outrages and anguish I had endured.
p. 143.8
- The labours I endured were no longer to be alleviated by the bright sun or gentle breezes of spring; all joy was but a mockery which insulted my desolate state and made me feel more painfully that I was not made for the enjoyment of pleasure.
p. 143.8
- I could only think of the bourne of my travels and the work which was to occupy me whilst they endured.
p. 159.6endured = lasted (continued to exist)
- I have endured toil and misery; I left Switzerland with you; I crept along the shores of the Rhine, among its willow islands and over the summits of its hills.
p. 172.3endured = suffered through
- I have endured incalculable fatigue, and cold, and hunger; do you dare destroy my hopes?
p. 172.4
- 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.
p. 177.1endured = lasted (continued to exist)
- The human frame could no longer support the agonies that I endured, and I was carried out of the room in strong convulsions.
p. 181.5endured = suffered through
- As Mr. Kirwin said this, notwithstanding the agitation I endured on this retrospect of my sufferings, I also felt considerable surprise at the knowledge he seemed to possess concerning me.
p. 184.2
- The name of my unfortunate and murdered friend was an agitation too great to be endured in my weak state; I shed tears.
p. 185.6
- I have one secret, Elizabeth, a dreadful one; when revealed to you, it will chill your frame with horror, and then, far from being surprised at my misery, you will only wonder that I survive what I have endured.
p. 193.9
- The tranquillity which I now enjoyed did not endure.
p. 194.3 *endure = continue to exist
- If you knew what I have suffered and what I may yet endure, you would endeavour to let me taste the quiet and freedom from despair that this one day at least permits me to enjoy.
p. 197.1endure = suffer through
- But the overflowing misery I now felt, and the excess of agitation that I endured rendered me incapable of any exertion.
p. 201.2endured = suffered through
- I have traversed a vast portion of the earth and have endured all the hardships which travellers in deserts and barbarous countries are wont to meet.
p. 205.4
- Cold, want, and fatigue were the least pains which I was destined to endure; I was cursed by some devil and carried about with me my eternal hell; yet still a spirit of good followed and directed my steps and when I most murmured would suddenly extricate me from seemingly insurmountable difficulties.
p. 207.4endure = suffer through
- Come on, my enemy; we have yet to wrestle for our lives, but many hard and miserable hours must you endure until that period shall arrive.
p. 208.8
- 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.
p. 210.3endure = survive (continue to exist in)
- I cannot guess how many days have passed since then, but I have endured misery which nothing but the eternal sentiment of a just retribution burning within my heart could have enabled me to support.
p. 210.5endured = suffered through
- And do I dare to ask of you to undertake my pilgrimage, to endure the hardships that I have undergone?
p. 212.3endure = suffer through
- And now, behold, with the first imagination of danger, or, if you will, the first mighty and terrific trial of your courage, you shrink away and are content to be handed down as men who had not strength enough to endure cold and peril; and so, poor souls, they were chilly and returned to their warm firesides.
p. 217.8
- Yet I fear such will be my fate; the men, unsupported by ideas of glory and honour, can never willingly continue to endure their present hardships.
p. 218.4
- My heart was fashioned to be susceptible of love and sympathy, and when wrenched by misery to vice and hatred, it did not endure the violence of the change without torture such as you cannot even imagine.
p. 222.4
- I am content to suffer alone while my sufferings shall endure;
p. 223.5endure = last (continue to exist)
- But in the detail which he gave you of them he could not sum up the hours and months of misery which I endured wasting in impotent passions.
p. 224.0endured = suffered through
Definitions:
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(1)
(endure as in: endured the pain) to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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(2)
(endure as in: endure through the ages) to continue to exist