All 28 Uses of
endure
in
Main Street
- She was not, she worried, strong enough to endure the routine, and she could not picture herself standing before grinning children and pretending to be wise and decisive.†
Chpt 1
- She could not go on enduring the hidden derision.†
Chpt 9
- Carol could not endure it.†
Chpt 9
- If Will were as literate as Guy, or Guy were as executive as Will, I think I could endure even Gopher Prairie.†
Chpt 10
- …when the light faltered in as through ground glass and bleakly identified the chairs as gray rectangles, she heard his step on the porch; heard him at the furnace: the rattle of shaking the grate, the slow grinding removal of ashes, the shovel thrust into the coal-bin, the abrupt clatter of the coal as it flew into the fire-box, the fussy regulation of drafts—the daily sounds of a Gopher Prairie life, now first appealing to her as something brave and enduring, many-colored and free.†
Chpt 15
- How could the easy Guy Pollock understand this skill and endurance?†
Chpt 15
- The Incident of the Seventeen Cents killed her none too enduring interest.†
Chpt 19
- They were strong and enduring; for an hour at a time they could go on heaving questions about her father's income, about her theology, and about the reason why she had not put on her rubbers when she had gone across the street.†
Chpt 20
- Thus she mounted to endurance and surcease.†
Chpt 21
- She admitted that Carol seemed to have affection and immaculate care for the baby, but she began to identify herself now with Kennicott, and in this phase to feel that she had endured quite too much from Carol's instability.†
Chpt 21
- She remembered the rector's wife who had been chilly to callers and who was rumored throughout the town to have said, "Re-ah-ly I cawn't endure this bucolic heartiness in the responses."†
Chpt 21
- I won't endure it!†
Chpt 22 *
- And anybody can endure anything.†
Chpt 23
- "Why, child, every woman ought to get off by herself and turn over her thoughts—about children, and God, and how bad her complexion is, and the way men don't really understand her, and how much work she finds to do in the house, and how much patience it takes to endure some things in a man's love."†
Chpt 24
- Between incumbencies of Finn maids from the North Woods, Germans from the prairies, occasional Swedes and Norwegians and Icelanders, Carol did her own work—and endured Aunt Bessie's skittering in to tell her how to dampen a broom for fluffy dust, how to sugar doughnuts, how to stuff a goose.†
Chpt 24
- She simply hasn't got an idea how hard it is for a full-blooded man to go on pretending to be satisfied with just being endured.†
Chpt 25
- Especially—she hesitated, then flung it at him—he must not guess at pronunciations; he must endure the nuisance of stopping to reach for the dictionary.†
Chpt 29
- There are two insults which no human being will endure: the assertion that he hasn't a sense of humor, and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.†
Chpt 31
- Carol could not endure it.†
Chpt 31
- She had gone to the party, not quite liking Cy but willing to endure him for the sake of dancing, of escaping from Mrs. Bogart's flow of moral comments, of relaxing after the first strained weeks of teaching.†
Chpt 32
- She made a decision resolute and enduring.†
Chpt 33
- Her task wouldn't be anything so lively as having to endure a scolding, but only an exasperating effort to command his attention so that he would understand the nebulous things she had to tell him, instead of interrupting her by yawning, winding the clock, and going up to bed.†
Chpt 33
- The Smails were to occupy the Kennicott house, and quite the hardest thing to endure in the month of waiting was the series of conferences between Kennicott and Uncle Whittier in regard to heating the garage and having the furnace flues cleaned.†
Chpt 33
- She could, she asserted, endure a shabby but modest town; the town shabby and egomaniac she could not endure.†
Chpt 35
- She could, she asserted, endure a shabby but modest town; the town shabby and egomaniac she could not endure.†
Chpt 35
- It was an endurance of monotonous details, yet she asserted that she had found "real work."†
Chpt 37
- She could not endure it.
Chpt 38 *endure = suffer through
- Matter of endurance.†
Chpt 38
Definitions:
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(endure as in: endured the pain) to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
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(endure as in: endure through the ages) to continue to exist