All 26 Uses of
endure
in
The Call of the Canyon
- The smell of this horse blanket was less endurable than the cold.†
Chpt 1 (definition 1)
- To see, to watch, to dream, to seek, to strive, to endure, to find!†
Chpt 3 (definition 2)
- It gradually got unendurable.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- But pride made Carley endure it until suddenly she thought she had been stabbed in the side.†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- Carley had reached a limit of strength, endurance, and patience.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- Flo talked eloquently about the joys of camp life, and how the harder any outdoor task was and the more endurance and pain it required, the more pride and pleasure one had in remembering it.†
Chpt 4 (definition 1)
- How could she endure another mile?†
Chpt 4 (definition 2)
- The intelligence in his bold gaze made the beastliness of it all the harder to endure, all the stronger to arouse.†
Chpt 5 (definition 2)
- By that toil and sweat, by the friction of horny palms, by the expansion and contraction of muscle, by the acceleration of blood, something great and enduring, something physical and spiritual, came to a man.†
Chpt 7 (definition 2)
- If Glenn's spirit had lifted him to endurance of war for the sake of others, how then could it fail him in a precious duty of fidelity to himself?†
Chpt 7 (definition 1)
- She did not sleep well, and arose early, and when the train reached Albany she felt that she could hardly endure the tedious hours.†
Chpt 8 (definition 2)
- But for the beautiful softness of light in his eyes, she would have been unable to endure gazing longer.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- She could endure no more.†
Chpt 9 (definition 2)
- If Glenn had been there this night would have been perfect, yet almost unendurable.†
Chpt 11 (definition 1)
- Sunburn and sting of sleet were equally to be endured.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- That, and the earning of her endurance, seemed to bring closer a wonderful reward, still nameless and spiritual, that had been unattainable, but now breathed to her on the fragrant desert wind and in the brooding silence.†
Chpt 11 (definition 1)
- A great truth was dawning upon her—that the sacrifice of what she had held as necessary to the enjoyment of life— that the strain of conflict, the labor of hands, the forcing of weary body, the enduring of pain, the contact with the earth—had served somehow to rejuvenate her blood, quicken her pulse, intensify her sensorial faculties, thrill her very soul, lead her into the realm of enchantment.†
Chpt 11 (definition 2)
- She could not endure it.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- A year ago she would have believed so, and would no longer have endured such agony.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- The lesson of the West had been to endure, not to shirk--to face an issue, not to hide.
Chpt 12 (definition 1) *endure = work through the difficult (suffer through)
- Its beauty and sublimity were lost upon Carley now; she was concerned with its travail, its age, its endurance, its strength.†
Chpt 12 (definition 1)
- What had it endured in the making?†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- This old mountain ... endured because of the spirit of nature.
Chpt 12 (definition 2) *endured = continued to exist
- It meant to endure to the last rolling grain of sand.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- The great thing is to see life—to understand—to feel—to work—to fight—to endure.†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
- I will endure….†
Chpt 12 (definition 2)
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