All 28 Uses of

endure

in

Of Human Bondage

Once or twice, driven beyond endurance, he hit and kicked the bigger boy, but Singer was so much stronger that Philip was helpless, and he was always forced after more or less torture to beg his pardon.†
Chpt 11-12

endurance = the ability to suffer through (or put up with) something difficult or unpleasant

There were two of them, and one was a medicine which the Vicar explained he was to use only if his neuritis grew unendurable.†
Chpt 107-108

There were two bottles: one contained a drug which he took regularly, and the other an opiate if the pain grew unendurable.†
Chpt 109-110

he was getting to the end of his endurance, and when he thought of going back to work in the morning he shuddered with horror.
Chpt 109-110 *

endurance = ability to suffer through

He hated school, which he looked upon as an indignity to be endured till he was old enough to go out into the world.†
Chpt 19-20

He had wanted to revenge himself for the pain and the humiliation he had endured.†
Chpt 19-20

He passed his fingers through his fair, waving hair and told them that he would not for five hundred pounds endure again those agonies of mind.†
Chpt 27-28

it was horrible to think of all the suffering she must have endured.†
Chpt 51-52

He remembered the bitterness of his life at school, the humiliation which he had endured, the banter which had made him morbidly afraid of making himself ridiculous; and he remembered the loneliness he had felt since, faced with the world, the disillusion and the disappointment caused by the difference between what it promised to his active imagination and what it gave.†
Chpt 53-54

He wondered how he was going to endure that ceaseless aching of his soul.†
Chpt 57-58

She seemed to be constantly humiliating him, and for each snub that he endured he owed her a grudge.†
Chpt 57-58 *

He wondered whether Emily Wilkinson and Fanny Price had endured on his account anything like the torment that he suffered now.†
Chpt 59-60

But later on, when he had endured the ordeal to which he forced himself, going out into the night after the noisy conversation in the smoking-room, he was seized with a feeling of utter loneliness.†
Chpt 59-60

He knew instinctively that it was madness to give himself into her hands; his only chance was to treat her casually and never allow her to see the untamed passions that seethed in his breast; she would only take advantage of his weakness; but he could not be prudent now: he told her all the agony he had endured during the separation from her; he told her of his struggles with himself, how he had tried to get over his passion, thought he had succeeded, and how he found out that it was as strong as ever.†
Chpt 59-60

By George, if I marry her I'll make her pay for all the suffering I've endured,' he said to himself.†
Chpt 61-62

For all the misery he had endured there was a compensation in that sense of rushing, overwhelming existence.†
Chpt 67-68

He set his teeth and read on; he tried desperately to concentrate his attention; the sentences etched themselves in his brain by the force of his effort, but they were distorted by the agony he was enduring.†
Chpt 77-78

The pain he was suffering was horrible, he would sooner be dead than endure it; and the thought came to him that it would be better to finish with the whole thing: he might throw himself in the river or put his neck on a railway line; but he had no sooner set the thought into words than he rebelled against it.†
Chpt 77-78

He wanted to get away from the sordid rooms in which he had endured so much suffering.†
Chpt 77-78

He kept on saying to himself that it would be absurd to commit suicide, since something must happen soon; he could not get over the impression that his situation was too preposterous to be taken quite seriously; it was like an illness which must be endured but from which he was bound to recover.†
Chpt 99-100

He saw the pain come into Lawson's eyes, he could not help it, he was sorry, but he had to think of himself; he could not bear the thought of discussing his situation, he could endure it only by determining resolutely not to think about it.†
Chpt 105-106

Moreover, he took irresistible dislikes to the places where he had been miserable: he remembered the humiliation he had endured when he had waited in that studio, ravenous with hunger, for Lawson to offer him a meal, and the last occasion when he had taken the five shillings off him.†
Chpt 105-106

It seemed to Philip that the people who spent their time in helping the poorer classes erred because they sought to remedy things which would harass them if themselves had to endure them without thinking that they did not in the least disturb those who were used to them.†
Chpt 113-114

He could not persuade himself that she was a woman; because he had known her as a flapper, he could not help looking upon her as a child still; yet the number of her admirers showed that she was a child no longer; and though they had only been down a few days one of Sally's cousins was already so attentive that she had to endure a lot of chaffing.†
Chpt 119-120

Definitions:

(1) (endure as in: endured the pain)
to suffer through (or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
(2) (endure as in: endure through the ages)
to continue to exist