All 7 Uses
endure
in
Pudd'nhead Wilson
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- The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money.
Chpt 8 *enduring = lasting (continue to exist)
- She couldn't endure the thought of it.
Chpt 8 *endure = bear (suffer through; or put up with something difficult or unpleasant)
- and when the appalling stillness has endured until one is sure the lost breath will never return, a nurse comes flying, and dashes water in the child's face, and—presto!†
Chpt 4
- Tom had managed to endure everything else, but to have to remain publicly and permanently under such an obligation as this to a nigger, and to this nigger of all niggers—this was too much.†
Chpt 4
- They could have endured it, perhaps, if Tom had stopped there; but he wore gloves, and that they couldn't stand, and wouldn't; so he was mainly without society.†
Chpt 5
- Even a sober person does not like to have a human being emptied on him when he is not doing any harm; a person who is not sober cannot endure such an attention at all.†
Chpt 11
- The poor fellow could not endure the terrors of the white man's parlor, and felt at home and at peace nowhere but in the kitchen.†
Chpt Cncl.
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
- (3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)