All 13 Uses of
endure
in
Crime and Punishment, by Dostoyevsky
- A little more, and their companionship, this mother and this sister, with him after three years' absence, this intimate tone of conversation, in face of the utter impossibility of really speaking about anything, would have been beyond his power of endurance.†
Chpt 3.3 *endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant
- It was unendurable; he turned his deadly pale face to her.†
Chpt 5.4unendurable = not capable of being suffered through (or put up with)standard 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.
- Dounia can endure a great deal and even in the most difficult cases she has the fortitude to maintain her firmness.†
Chpt 1.3
- It made me ill, but Dounia bore it better than I did, and if only you could have seen how she endured it all and tried to comfort me and cheer me up!†
Chpt 1.3
- For the family had come to such a pass that they were practically without change of linen, and Katerina Ivanovna could not endure uncleanliness and, rather than see dirt in the house, she preferred to wear herself out at night, working beyond her strength when the rest were asleep, so as to get the wet linen hung on a line and dry by the morning.†
Chpt 2.7
- Why, I know one case in which a hypochondriac, a man of forty, cut the throat of a little boy of eight, because he couldn't endure the jokes he made every day at table!†
Chpt 3.2
- Besides, he could not endure uncertainty, and he wanted an explanation: if his request had been so openly disobeyed, there was something behind it, and in that case it was better to find it out beforehand; it rested with him to punish them and there would always be time for that.†
Chpt 4.2
- The conversation had struck him as interesting and remarkable, and he had greatly enjoyed it—so much so that he brought a chair that he might not in the future, to-morrow, for instance, have to endure the inconvenience of standing a whole hour, but might listen in comfort.†
Chpt 4.4
- He endured anguish at that moment, and if it had been possible to slay Raskolnikov instantly by wishing it, Pyotr Petrovitch would promptly have uttered the wish.†
Chpt 5.1
- When amidst loud laughter the glass flew at Amalia Ivanovna, it was more than the landlady could endure.†
Chpt 5.3 *
- I had to endure all the agony of that battle of ideas, Sonia, and I longed to throw it off: I wanted to murder without casuistry, to murder for my own sake, for myself alone!†
Chpt 5.4
- She would undoubtedly have been one of those who would endure martyrdom and would have smiled when they branded her bosom with hot pincers.†
Chpt 6.4
- Why, I told you...besides your sister can't endure me.†
Chpt 6.4
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