All 10 Uses of
fortitude
in
Sense and Sensibility
- She avoided the looks of them all, could neither eat nor speak, and after some time, on her mother's silently pressing her hand with tender compassion, her small degree of fortitude was quite overcome, she burst into tears and left the room.†
Chpt 15 *fortitude = strength of mind that enables one to endure adversity with courage
- I had depended on her fortitude too far, and the blow was a severe one— but had her marriage been happy, so young as I then was, a few months must have reconciled me to it, or at least I should not have now to lament it.†
Chpt 31
- Concern for her unhappiness, and respect for her fortitude under it, must strengthen every attachment.†
Chpt 31
- Long letters from her, quickly succeeding each other, arrived to tell all that she suffered and thought; to express her anxious solicitude for Marianne, and entreat she would bear up with fortitude under this misfortune.†
Chpt 32
- Bad indeed must the nature of Marianne's affliction be, when her mother could talk of fortitude!†
Chpt 32
- Her exertions did not stop here; for she soon afterwards felt herself so heroically disposed as to determine, under pretence of fetching Marianne, to leave the others by themselves; and she really did it, and THAT in the handsomest manner, for she loitered away several minutes on the landing-place, with the most high-minded fortitude, before she went to her sister.†
Chpt 35
- She has borne it all, with the fortitude of an angel!†
Chpt 37
- She, who had seen her week after week so constantly suffering, oppressed by anguish of heart which she had neither courage to speak of, nor fortitude to conceal, now saw with a joy, which no other could equally share, an apparent composure of mind, which, in being the result as she trusted of serious reflection, must eventually lead her to contentment and cheerfulness.†
Chpt 46
- I saw that my own feelings had prepared my sufferings, and that my want of fortitude under them had almost led me to the grave.†
Chpt 46
- She feared that under this persuasion she had been unjust, inattentive, nay, almost unkind, to her Elinor;— that Marianne's affliction, because more acknowledged, more immediately before her, had too much engrossed her tenderness, and led her away to forget that in Elinor she might have a daughter suffering almost as much, certainly with less self-provocation, and greater fortitude.†
Chpt 47