All 11 Uses of
endure
in
Dracula
- It was a shock to me to turn from the wonderful smoky beauty of a sunset over London, with its lurid lights and inky shadows and all the marvellous tints that come on foul clouds even as on foul water, and to realize all the grim sternness of my own cold stone building, with its wealth of breathing misery, and my own desolate heart to endure it all.
p. 126.9endure = suffer through
- Nay, but they are not to take in a decoction or in nauseous form, so you need not snub that so charming nose, or I shall point out to my friend Arthur what woes he may have to endure in seeing so much beauty that he so loves so much distort.
p. 140.8
- I lay still and endured, that was all.
p. 275.7endured = continued to suffer through something difficult
- I looked at my companions, one after another, and saw from their flushed faces and damp brows that they were enduring equal torture.
p. 295.9enduring = suffering through
- And besides there is nothing in all the world that can give me more pain than I have already endured, than I suffer now!
p. 309.6 *endured = suffered through
- She was so good and brave that we all felt that our hearts were strengthened to work and endure for her, and we began to discuss what we were to do.
p. 310.8 *endure = continue to work through hardships
- He be beaten back, but did he stay? No! He come again, and again, and again. Look at his persistence and endurance.
p. 341.5endurance = ability or determination to suffer through difficulties
- You are strong in your numbers, for you can defy that which would break down the human endurance of one who had to guard alone.
p. 348.2endurance = ability to suffer through difficulty
- I could not have endured the horrid screeching as the stake drove home, the plunging of writhing form, and lips of bloody foam.
p. 395.2endured = continued to suffer through
- When I stepped into the circle where Madam Mina slept, she woke from her sleep and, seeing me, cried out in pain that I had endured too much.
p. 395.6endured = suffered through
- And the happiness of some of us since then is, we think, well worth the pain we endured.
p. 402.1
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