All 21 Uses of

endure

in

Go Tell It on the Mountain

His mother, her eyes raised to heaven, hands arced before her, moving, made real for John that patience, that endurance, that long suffering, which he had read of in the Bible and found so hard to imagine.†
Chpt 1.1 *

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

He lay silent, racked beyond endurance, salt drying on his face, with nothing in him any more, no lust, no fear, no shame, no hope.†
Chpt 3.1

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

and did worse things, said his father, which the tongue could not endure to utter.†
Chpt 1.1

For a moment her pride stood up; the resolution that had brought her to this place tonight faltered, and she felt that if Gabriel was the Lord's anointed, she would rather die and endure Hell for all eternity than bow before His altar.†
Chpt 2.1

Lust stirred in the eyes of men when they looked at Deborah, lust that could not be endured because it was so impersonal, limiting communion to the area of her shame.†
Chpt 2.1

He could not endure the thought of being left alone with his mother, with nothing whatever to put between himself and his guilty love.†
Chpt 2.1

They came from deeps no child discovers, and shook him with an ague no child endures.†
Chpt 2.2

While Deborah, despite their groaning, despite the humility with which she endured his body, yet failed to be quickened by any coming life.†
Chpt 2.2

he could not endure, day in, day out, facing the scenes and the people he had known all his life.†
Chpt 2.2

of what displeasure, what condemnation, what prophesies of trials yet to be endured might issue from His mouth.†
Chpt 2.3 *

She wondered, tonight, how she could give this knowledge to her son; if she could help him to endure what could now no longer be changed; if while life ran, he would forgive her?†
Chpt 2.3

that without the pride and bitterness she had so long carried in her heart against her aunt she could never have endured her life with her.†
Chpt 2.3

She would not, of course, have endured these names from anyone else, nor, had she not found herself, with joy and helplessness (and a sleeping panic), living it out, would she ever have suffered herself so publicly to become a man's property?†
Chpt 2.3

This power had struck John, in the head or in the heart; and, in a moment, wholly, filling him with an anguish that he could never in his life have imagined, that he surely could not endure, that even now he could not believe, had opened him up; had cracked him open, as wood beneath the;ixe cracks down the middle, as rocks break up; had ripped him and felled him in a moment, so that John had not felt the wound, but only the agony, had not felt: the fall, but only the fear; and lay here, now, helpless, screaming, at the very bottom of darkness.†
Chpt 3.1

The stripes they had endured would scar his back, their punishment would be his, their portion his, his their humiliation, anguish, chains, their dungeon his, their death his.†
Chpt 3.1

For his drifting soul was anchored in the love of God; in the rock that endured forever.†
Chpt 3.1

And they looked unto Jesus, the author and the finisher of their faith, running with patience the race He had set before them; they endured the cross, and they despised the shame, and waited to join Him, one day, in glory, at the right hand of the Father.†
Chpt 3.1

And the avenue, like any landscape that has endured a storm, lay changed under Heaven, exhausted and clean, and new.†
Chpt 3.1

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