All 31 Uses of
endure
in
Jane Eyre
- Accustomed to John Reed's abuse, I never had an idea of replying to it; my care was how to endure the blow which would certainly follow the insult.
p. 13.3endure = suffer through
- 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.
p. 19.7 *endured = put up with
- My heart beat thick, my head grew hot; a sound filled my ears, which I deemed the rushing of wings; something seemed near me; I was oppressed, suffocated: endurance broke down; I rushed to the door and shook the lock in desperate effort.†
p. 21.3endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- I cannot endure it — let me be punished some other way!
p. 22.1endure = suffer through
- Not a hint, however, did she drop about sending me to school: still I felt an instinctive certainty that she would not long endure me under the same roof with her; for her glance, now more than ever, when turned on me, expressed an insuperable and rooted aversion.
p. 33.5endure = bear (suffer)
- It is far better to endure patiently a smart which nobody feels but yourself, than to commit a hasty action whose evil consequences will extend to all connected with you;
p. 66.7endure = suffereditor's notes: In this context, smart is a synonym for pain.
- I heard her with wonder: I could not comprehend this doctrine of endurance; and still less could I understand or sympathise with the forbearance she expressed for her chastiser.
p. 67.0endurance = suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- Our clothing was insufficient to protect us from the severe cold: we had no boots, the snow got into our shoes and melted there: our ungloved hands became numbed and covered with chilblains, as were our feet: I remember well the distracting irritation I endured from this cause every evening, when my feet inflamed; and the torture of thrusting the swelled, raw, and stiff toes into my shoes in the morning.
p. 71.5endured = suffered through
- the nights and mornings no longer by their Canadian temperature froze the very blood in our veins; we could now endure the play-hour passed in the garden:
p. 90.3endure = bear (suffer)
- Adele went to kiss him before quitting the room: he endured the caress, but scarcely seemed to relish it more than Pilot would have done, nor so much.
p. 149.1endured = suffered through
- No snivel! -- no sentiment! -- no regret! I will endure only sense and resolution.
p. 187.4endure = suffer (put up with)
- Miss Ingram ought to be clement, for she has it in her power to inflict a chastisement beyond mortal endurance.†
p. 208.9endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- for you to be adopted by your uncle, and placed in a state of ease and comfort, was what I could not endure.
p. 275.7endure = suffer
- In listening, I sobbed convulsively; for I could repress what I endured no longer; I was obliged to yield, and I was shaken from head to foot with acute distress.
p. 291.8endured = suffered through
- Jane, I am not a gentle-tempered man — you forget that: I am not long-enduring; I am not cool and dispassionate.
p. 350.9enduring = suffering
- Pity, Jane, from some people is a noxious and insulting sort of tribute, which one is justified in hurling back in the teeth of those who offer it; but that is the sort of pity native to callous, selfish hearts; it is a hybrid, egotistical pain at hearing of woes, crossed with ignorant contempt for those who have endured them.
p. 354.1endured = suffered
- The burden must be carried; the want provided for; the suffering endured; the responsibility fulfilled.
p. 374.4endured = suffered through
- I honour endurance, perseverance, industry, talent; because these are the means by which men achieve great ends and mount to lofty eminence.
p. 432.8endurance = suffering through (or put up with) difficulty
- but as his wife — at his side always, and always restrained, and always checked — forced to keep the fire of my nature continually low, to compel it to burn inwardly and never utter a cry, though the imprisoned flame consumed vital after vital — this would be unendurable.
p. 470.4unendurable = unbearablestandard prefix: The prefix "un-" in unendurable means not and reverses the meaning of endurable. This is the same pattern you see in words like unhappy, unknown, and unlucky.
- It would be fruitless to attempt to explain; but there is a point on which I have long endured painful doubt, and I can go nowhere till by some means that doubt is removed.
p. 477.4endured = suffered
- I had endured, he was certain, more than I had confessed to him.
p. 507.9
- That I merited all I endured, I acknowledged —
p. 515.5
- I will write to Madeira the moment I get home, and tell my uncle John I am going to be married, and to whom: if I had but a prospect of one day bringing Mr. Rochester an accession of fortune, I could better endure to be kept by him now.†
p. 310.0
- I only ask you to endure one more night under this roof, Jane; and then, farewell to its miseries and terrors for ever!†
p. 348.2
- But I am not angry, Jane: I only love you too well; and you had steeled your little pale face with such a resolute, frozen look, I could not endure it.†
p. 349.8
- Yet as little could he endure that a son of his should be a poor man.†
p. 351.8
- I thank Providence, who watched over you, that she then spent her fury on your wedding apparel, which perhaps brought back vague reminiscences of her own bridal days: but on what might have happened, I cannot endure to reflect.†
p. 357.5
- We were born to strive and endure — you as well as I: do so.†
p. 364.8
- Her constitution is both sound and elastic; — better calculated to endure variations of climate than many more robust.†
p. 458.2
- Can I receive from him the bridal ring, endure all the forms of love (which I doubt not he would scrupulously observe) and know that the spirit was quite absent?†
p. 467.2
- That I merited all I endured, I acknowledged — that I could scarcely endure more, I pleaded; and the alpha and omega of my heart's wishes broke involuntarily from my lips in the words — 'Jane!†
p. 515.5
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