| 单词 | endurable |
| 例句 | A sweet, endurable, even cherished irritation, full of promise and delicate security. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z The wind of the night before had subsided, and, though the cold was still sharp, it was more endurable. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The intent of the place and its regime was punitive, but not destructive, and I think it might have been endurable, without the druggings and the examinations. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z The coroner’s men did what they could to make the viewing as endurable as possible. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Which pain will be least endurable? The physical, or the mental anguish of having freedom offered if the truth is told, then telling it and being thought a liar.” The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z Misery colored by the greens and blues in my mother’s voice took all of the grief out of the words and left me with a conviction that pain was not only endurable, it was sweet. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z Feeling this, Jo’s burden seemed easier to bear, duty grew sweeter, and life looked more endurable, seen from the safe shelter of her mother’s arms. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z I had been alone before, but the knowledge that my father would return from his meetings and spend a few minutes with me had made the loneliness endurable. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z The thought, certainly, couldn’t have been endurable for more than a few seconds. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z Twitter and the connected audience felt like a relief last night, if only because it made watching the Cleveland spectacle so much more endurable, to crack jokes with another community of amateurs. The R.N.C. on TV: Another Unbelievable Evening 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Words are so powerful to me, and now they’re so endurable and transferable, and they show up somewhere else 20 years later. “I’m the parent who wants their kids to have sex”: Mary Louise Parker talks poetry, nudity, one-night stands and her brilliant new book 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z Hilarity ensues, more or less, with just enough LOLs to make the show endurable rather than memorable. In Fox’s ‘The Mick,’ Kaitlin Olson goes from ‘Sunny’ to something more cloudy 2016-12-30T05:00:00Z That’s love bottled up in a single metaphor: sacred, toxic and dangerously addictive but gloriously, painfully endurable. The All-TIME 100 Songs 2011-10-24T09:00:29Z The show went off Thursday night without any major hitch or clunky notes — and was far more entertaining and certainly more endurable than its zombie predecessor, last year’s “The Sound of Music Live!” ‘Peter Pan Live!’ flies clear of Twitter’s crocodile jaws What you now think is impossible somehow, with time, becomes endurable. When my home was destroyed 2013-05-21T18:22:00Z Clearly, this verbiage is bad on purpose — which doesn’t make it any less endurable. Review: In ‘Ye Bear & Ye Cubb,’ Colonial America Takes the Stage 2022-12-14T05:00:00Z Their presence made the media blitzes more endurable, Franco said, as he watched the students process "a side of the business I'm used to" with fresh eyes. James Franco lightens up for role in "Oz the Great and Powerful" 2013-03-07T19:53:42Z I suggest treating them instead as a rather rude but perfectly endurable reordering of your priorities. Full-time employee misses being a full-time mom 2015-12-03T05:00:00Z This is a beautiful, philosophical film about impossible choices, which sees life as complex but ultimately endurable. '22 Jump Street' sequel makes fun of everything 2014-11-15T05:00:00Z This is endurable, the poem seems to say, only because both exist on the same continuum - the "human spirit". Poem of the week 2010-05-10T10:24:00Z The absurd bloodbath involved in getting it is, but is endurable for the ensuing gag about the $140 million painting continually being mistaken for a dirty old tarp. Mark Wahlberg and Mark Wahlberg's Muscles Are On a Boat in Contraband 2012-01-12T16:35:43Z Life may just be endurable, it suggests, as long as we have the pluck to put on a show about how awful it is. ArtsBeat: London Theater Journal: Stripped of Illusions, but Still Glittering and Gay 2014-01-23T17:10:33Z It made everything feel temporary and endurable, and it allowed me to dream in a way. Kehinde Wiley is reaching for a new language of grace 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z I’m partial to Temple this time around for no other reason than the fact that her presence made the 10-episode run of “The Godfather” limited series “The Offer” almost endurable. Emmys 2022: The comedy acting power rankings 2022-06-01T04:00:00Z So how do you know when a gross but endurable situation requires medical intervention? Everything you wanted to know about food poisoning but were too busy puking to ask 2021-05-16T04:00:00Z He said the "new normal of living with Covid-19 will only be sustainable - or even endurable - if we challenge our addiction to centralisation". NHS and care homes to be prioritised for tests 2020-09-15T04:00:00Z The truth is that “Trolls World Tour” doesn’t really require the full effect and may actually be more enjoyable — more endurable — at medium volume. Review: You can watch 'Trolls World Tour' at home. Kid will like it. Adults almost will 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z The time difference and the lack of physical touch were endurable now, as Sabrina was a late riser, and Avery often felt content to just talk to her, but she felt the future imposing itself. Love in the time of video games and Discord 2019-03-24T04:00:00Z But several hours later, on the rainy street, she managed to convince herself that answering was more endurable than going through Oliver’s voice mails. “Ways and Means” 2018-08-20T04:00:00Z It is also 22 minutes shorter and, though no less committed to an aesthetic of shattered glass and pulverized steel, a rather more endurable experience on the whole. 'Pacific Rim Uprising' is a big, noisy, cheerfully dumb monsters-and-robots sequel 2018-03-22T04:00:00Z For many of my fellow interns, the summer was a brief, endurable excursion into the Trump administration. Perspective | As an EPA intern, I was barred from mentioning climate change 2018-01-02T05:00:00Z With victories over the Jacksonville Jaguars and Arizona Cardinals in hand, the 10-plus-hour flight home was no doubt far more endurable than it might have been following a loss or two. Longest-suffering member of Rams relishes team's success this season 2017-10-23T04:00:00Z That will be considerably worse than where we are now, but maybe it will be expensively endurable. Stop talking right now about the threat of climate change. It’s here; it’s happening | Bill McKibben 2017-09-11T04:00:00Z They will also remember that the ordeal was endurable because they shared it with strangers who were, it turned out, not so strange after all. Why should it take a hurricane to bring out our humanity? 2017-08-30T04:00:00Z Perhaps this is what Rothko meant when he told a group of art students that he included in his paintings a measure of hope: ‘‘10 percent to make the tragic concept more endurable.’’ The Rothko Chapel 2017-08-23T04:00:00Z Similarly enduring – and endurable – are the worries that occupation delegitimises Zionism and causes discord within Israel. Israel-Palestine: the real reason there’s still no peace 2017-05-16T04:00:00Z The final result may well be a slap on the wrist and a noisy news cycle for Clinton, but that’s easily endurable. Democrats need to be worried about Hillary’s FBI problem: The looming political fight could cause real damage in November 2016-03-28T04:00:00Z And that, he concluded, constitutes “a clear and present danger…beyond the limits of the endurable.” Churchill Était Charlie Aussi 2015-01-26T05:00:00Z The goal is to turn one of air travel’s most unpleasant experiences — waiting for a flight — into something more endurable. A Touch Screen to Allay Some of the Stress of Travel 2015-01-12T05:00:00Z Sports elicits a watered-down, endurable version of the implacable indifference to our wishes of things as they are. How the Nationals handle 18-inning loss will determine what happens in Game 3, and beyond Can you hit 350-yard drives for years with a swing that deliberately snaps every endurable amount of force onto your firm left knee and still have much knee left by 35? Boswell: Tiger Woods’ drive to catch Jack Nicklaus might have undermined his long-range game 2014-03-05T19:46:06Z Employing the outline thus must not be regarded as a means of merely rendering what was actually unpleasant endurable, for it does much more—it affords one of the richest means of effect. Principles of Decorative Design Fourth Edition 2012-05-22T15:16:52.423Z But in these three months she had suffered more than she had conceived to be endurable by any living creature. Mrs. Thompson A Novel 2012-04-25T02:01:10.557Z Was one truly loveable creature going to say things to him that would not be endurable in themselves and was another going to say opposite things which would make herself a creature to be abhorred. The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury 2012-04-20T02:00:07.610Z This constant sunshine is a great boon to the beggars and poor, helping to make life endurable for them; they need very little clothing, as a rule, to enable them to keep warm. Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia An account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence amongst the Women of the East 2012-04-18T02:00:15.997Z Though this penance was regarded as merciful in comparison with imprisonment, it was not easily endurable, and we can readily understand the sharp penalties required to enforce obedience. A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I 2012-04-17T02:00:16.473Z Roland decided that Cecil groaning over an algebra problem would be more endurable than having to listen to a renewal of the argument between Norah and his father, and he, too, retired. The Vanity Girl 2012-04-12T02:00:26.883Z Now this is hard enough to bear when the pieces at stake are stained ivory, but it is less endurable: still when they are our emotions and our wishes. Barrington Volume I (of II) 2012-04-09T02:00:31.357Z Do not ask how much of manumission is endurable, but how much the nature of justice and good will allows you which bids you spare even captives and persons bought with a price. The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets 2012-03-27T02:00:23.077Z Life in daylight was only endurable when men were on the trail or hunt. True Tales of Arctic Heroism in the New World 2012-03-13T02:00:24.640Z Neither useless regrets for the past nor profitless forebodings for the future should ever cast their shadows over the present, which taken in itself is always endurable, and may generally be made positively happy. The Five Great Philosophies of Life 2012-03-09T03:00:19.413Z A pergola may have a dilapidated Present and be endurable; but it should show evidences of a substantial Past. Old-Time Gardens Newly Set Forth 2012-03-06T03:00:22.850Z And it is so; but one's "private griefs" are not lessened by exposure, nor made more endurable by being constantly the theme, either of one's thoughts or conversation. The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews 2012-03-01T03:00:22.883Z The countess's biographer continues, in a later age, a style which, barely endurable when a century old, is intolerable when repeated and renewed. Fletcher of Madeley 2012-02-23T03:00:39.877Z At Clacton-on-Sea a few of the buildings are tolerable to the eye, and there is one hotel, not the most pretentious of them, which is more than endurable to look at, and quite reasonably comfortable. Through East Anglia in a Motor Car 2012-02-22T03:00:21.787Z And yet another, a mere speck indeed in comparison, and very endurable, appeared at the last moment, the very day before the 24th. For the Cause 2012-02-19T03:00:18.033Z By-and-by I will come into the office too drunk to be endurable. Out of a Labyrinth 2012-02-17T03:00:38.887Z As the Daimio stood quietly glancing round without a word, the silence became each second less endurable. The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan 2012-02-14T03:00:23.467Z It was only 11 a.m. when the tents were pitched, and the long day which followed was barely endurable. Journeys in Persia and Kurdistan, Volume II (of 2) Including a Summer in the Upper Karun Region and a Visit to the Nestorian Rayahs 2012-02-12T03:00:11.843Z Latin hotel standards are different from those of North America, but good judges of hotel life have pronounced those of Panama to be quite endurable. Prowling about Panama 2012-02-11T03:04:04.040Z The world was full of inventions to destroy life before there were any to prolong it or make it endurable. The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 4 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Lectures 2012-02-11T03:03:46.253Z This hour made the remaining twenty-three endurable; in short, it was his golden hour—his hour marked with a red letter. The Little Princess of Tower Hill 2012-02-06T03:00:11.547Z Grief of parting was not there, for the two were striving to make parting endurable, each to each, by the look. Istar of Babylon A Phantasy 2012-01-31T03:00:15.543Z Support′able, capable of being supported: endurable: capable of being maintained.—n. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) 2012-01-30T03:00:19.113Z Already while he walked to the station he was thinking that, after all, Paris was endurable, even though one particular woman could not refrain from a little smile of amusement when he crossed her path. The Truants 2012-01-28T03:00:26.257Z The delay would have been more endurable had there been some window or opening in the loft. The Courtship of Morrice Buckler A Romance 2012-01-26T03:00:17.027Z The latter is mortification, which causes perhaps the greatest of mental sufferings; therefore it is far more endurable to have our misfortune brought clearly before us than our incapacity. The World As Will And Idea (Vol. 1 of 3) 2011-12-29T03:00:18.017Z Life might have been endurable enough, if I could have gone on with my army career as Lieutenant Petrovitch; but not if the abominable and disgraceful intrigue were to be added as a necessary condition. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z The temperature, too, was endurable, and the faces of the guests did not glisten with drunkenness and perspiration, which impart to the countenance a gloss that does not embellish it. Fr?d?rique; vol. 1 2011-12-19T03:00:39.830Z Only gradually, as the day wears on and his temperature rises, does he become endurable to himself and to others. Modern Essays 2011-12-13T03:00:25.577Z The climate on the coast is rendered endurable by the refreshing sea breezes which blow for several hours every day. Guatemala, the country of the future 2011-12-12T03:00:29.630Z "Don't know, sir," replied Blewforth, "but I saw the jade at Portsmouth last year, and I'm d—d if �50,000 would have made her endurable." The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z My anguish and rage that he should have Olga in his power were infinite tortures, and all the less endurable because of my abject helplessness. By Right of Sword 2011-12-22T03:00:24.563Z But if one wears thick woolens," he replied, "the cold and draught are quite endurable. An American at Oxford 2011-12-02T03:00:19.150Z The Most Usual Means by which the ascetic and the sanctified individual seeks to make life more endurable comprises certain combats of an inner nature involving alternations of victory and prostration. Human, All Too Human A Book for Free Spirits 2011-11-28T03:00:26.030Z At this hour it is quite endurable; an hour later it becomes overpowering. From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey 2011-11-26T03:00:12.337Z If any permanency of emotion was desirable, it would certainty be more endurable in heat and gaiety than in chill aerial solitudes. The Passionate Elopement 2011-12-02T03:00:19.930Z The patient's prolonged rest in bed will be more endurable when he is permitted to look out on the street and watch life than when obliged to gaze at the four walls of his room. Nurses' Papers on Tuberculosis : read before the Nurses' Study Circle of the Dispensary Department, Chicago Municipal Tuberculosis Sanitarium 2011-11-25T03:00:11.053Z Six months ago, I shouldn't have thought it possible that a life deliberately founded on pottering about and dawdling through the day would be endurable or even possible. The Letters of William James, Vol. II 2011-11-24T03:00:48.427Z "Wait, if you please," said Claire, with demure toleration, as though a bulwark of proof made this skeptic assault endurable. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Mr. Emerson kissed her; and I thought that honor would make even matrimony endurable, for he is the god of my idolatry, and has been for years. Louisa May Alcott : Her Life, Letters, and Journals 2011-11-20T03:00:14.840Z He comforted himself with the thought that his life would be more endurable on board ship, but here he was mistaken. The Diamond Fairy Book 2011-11-14T03:00:18.297Z Come away, dear Mary, from the horrible climate you are in; life is not endurable where you are. The Life and Letters of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Volume II (of 2) 2011-11-10T03:00:10.110Z I felt like Robinson Crusoe, and in some respects his plight was more endurable than mine. The Indians' Last Fight Or The Dull Knife Raid 2011-11-06T02:00:13.167Z If he were merely a poor man, his illiteracy would be endurable. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z Against the Art of Works of Art.—Art is above all and first of all meant to embellish life, to make us ourselves endurable and if possible agreeable in the eyes of others. Human, All-Too-Human, Part II 2011-10-26T02:00:29.773Z Even persecution is endurable if it is understandable, and the Jews of the world have always known just where it fitted in the scheme of things. The International Jew The World's Foremost Problem 2011-10-16T02:00:19.257Z Now, to all outward appearances they find it, if not grateful and comforting, at least endurable and convenient. Search-Light Letters 2011-10-06T02:00:43.957Z It makes life endurable; sometimes the dear little things meet you at the train with sweet-smelling flowers and embroidered neckties so long that you have to cut off the ends or double them. Ann Boyd 2011-09-29T02:00:14.220Z And there was only one thought to make the prospect of return endurable; that thought was meeting her father. An Ambitious Woman A Novel 2011-11-23T03:00:54.137Z When he left, our condition was still fairly endurable, for there was another engineer there who showed us much sympathy and friendship. The House of the Dead or Prison Life in Siberia with an introduction by Julius Bramont 2011-09-27T02:00:18.213Z Religion will give you strength of mind to submit to our worldly separation, and all my sufferings will be endurable, while they open to me the hope of a final re-union with my angel sister!' The Wanderer (Volume 5 of 5) or, Female Difficulties 2011-09-17T02:00:29.433Z Opiates were given, but owing to his absorption being so slow they failed to make it endurable. Edgar Saltus: The Man 2011-09-13T02:00:36.953Z But Jack felt that the suspense would be easily endurable so long as he could have sight and speech of Olivia Sellwood; without her, even for these few minutes, it was hardly to be borne. My Lord Duke 2011-09-09T02:01:11.940Z Frequent rains in summer make the heat endurable; the winter is drier than at Port Elizabeth. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z Perhaps, he reflected, life in Boston would become endurable; there was his sister to consider, and he owed something to her; she was all he had. The Main Chance 2011-08-26T02:00:27.127Z We made a tremendous blaze in order to render the cold to some extent endurable. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z The wind veered to the southwest and came with an endurable force. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z If only he had sworn at me it would have been endurable. Jock of the Bushveld 2011-08-04T02:00:24.987Z They are very kind, and make the life of the invalid endurable, if not pleasant. Yankee Girls in Zulu Land 2011-08-31T02:01:39.710Z Life at best he regarded as hard enough, and only the fame to be acquired by the performance of brave deeds could sweeten it so as to make it endurable. Pawnee Hero Stories and Folk-Tales With notes on the origin, customs and character of the Pawnee people 2011-08-02T02:00:20.603Z The sunbeams gradually rendered the cold more endurable. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z It was only necessary that good health, endurable weather and workable ice should follow. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z But one thing had helped to make her trying illness endurable. Marjorie Dean, High School Junior 2011-07-25T02:00:16.780Z There is a comfort in the strength of love, Making that pang endurable, which else Would overset the brain—or break the heart. Visits and Sketches at Home and Abroad with Tales and Miscellanies Now First Collected Vol. III (of 3) 2011-07-24T02:00:09.667Z A quiet, inactive, private life, which but a few hours before, in the hope of a marriage with Cornelia, had appeared endurable, now seemed to him a moral death. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z It was a glorious day: the sharp breeze rendered the heat endurable, while clouds every now and then obscured the sun. The Backwoodsman or, Life on the Indian Frontier 2011-08-17T02:00:27.330Z With light sledges and endurable weather, we made fair progress over the increasing pack irregularities. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z While he did not relax any of his vigilance, he strove to make the hardship of our position more endurable, and showed a friendly spirit on every occasion. Capturing a Locomotive A History of Secrect Service in the Late War. 2011-07-19T02:00:19.070Z The exaggeration was not greater in the one case than in the other, and it is probable that the exaltation was made endurable to those who listened to the trouv�res by the corresponding degradation. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 1 "Evangelical Church Conference" to "Fairbairn, Sir William" 2011-07-16T02:00:16.387Z Where the heart and intellect are not peculiarly disunited, the emotional nature must exert an influence; it is the organ by means of which we make our simple every-day life pleasant, endurable, if possible poetical. A Twofold Life 2011-07-21T02:00:21.433Z In the meanwhile, the girl found the cold unlike anything she had felt in England, but, after the first few minutes, more endurable than she had expected. By Right of Purchase 2011-07-14T02:00:10.167Z The ice was free of pressure troubles and the weather was endurable. My Attainment of the Pole 2011-08-05T02:00:54.720Z To say the truth, Miss Torrington, I do not think there is any thing on earth particularly worth desiring; but your conversation may perhaps be amongst the most endurable. The Vicar of Wrexhill 2011-07-13T02:00:20.177Z Repetition is unavoidable in treating such a theme, but in Barnaby Rudge it is not rendered less endurable by mannerism, nor puffed out with rhetoric. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z The extreme dryness of the air renders the cold much more endurable than might be supposed. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 2011-06-29T02:00:23.750Z To a girl of her temperament inaction was the least endurable of evils. The Red Year A Story of the Indian Mutiny 2011-06-22T02:00:20.120Z My own captivity became a little more endurable. In Both Worlds 2011-06-08T02:00:17.360Z Both households lived on week after week in anxious suspense, made endurable by the love which brightened the lagging hours. Donald McElroy, Scotch Irishman 2011-06-04T02:00:12.520Z Thus, all the Maylie scenes, down to the last in which Oliver discreetly “glides” away from the lovers, are barely endurable. Dickens English Men of Letters 2011-07-13T02:00:19.017Z You just set about finding some way of making the calls endurable, and you hit on the nicest way. The Pastor's Wife 2011-06-02T02:00:23.873Z Both Rochester and Heathcliff would have been more endurable, as members of society, if their creators had themselves known more of society. The Age of Tennyson 2011-05-31T02:00:36.607Z "But why not?" replied the sprightly Jane; "it is the only endurable dress this warm weather." Rosemary and Rue 2011-05-21T02:00:11.483Z For already he recognized the startling truth: it was its very completeness which rendered his isolation endurable. Peccavi 2011-05-17T02:00:22.620Z The burden of life became still less endurable face to face with the existence of evil and with the wretchedness of our social arrangements. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z One cannot doubt that to a man of this temper his life was endurable enough. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z They know by experience that a peaceful and endurable environment can only be secured and maintained by a constant pandering to his whims and ways. Courtship and Marriage And the Gentle Art of Home-Making 2011-04-27T02:00:20.023Z Most of the evils of life, she thought, might be more endurable if people would but be discreet, and say nothing about them. That Unfortunate Marriage, Vol. 1 2011-04-26T02:00:29.063Z The revolutionary throe that shook the thrones of Europe in 1848 was but one of those periodical upheavings occurring about every half-century, when oppression has reached that point to be no longer endurable. The Child Wife 2011-04-21T02:00:50.050Z At this time he claims that earthly life is a punishment or a probation; but that it lies in man's power to make it endurable by freeing himself from the social restraints. Prophets of Dissent : Essays on Maeterlinck, Strindberg, Nietzsche and Tolstoy 2011-05-17T02:00:20.900Z To each all sides and shapes of life are alike acceptable or endurable. William Blake A Critical Essay 2011-05-04T02:00:18.110Z Thousands of them have joined the rebellion, in the hope of its eventually leading to a betterment in their condition, which, as they get into closer contact with civilization, grows daily less endurable. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z If an Irishman had done the half of his exploits he would not be endurable for ten years afterwards. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z The death of Stevenson, nine years later than their first meeting, though long anticipated, fell upon Henry James with a shock which he found at first scarcely endurable. Aspects and Impressions 2011-04-12T02:00:22.073Z Existence is only made endurable by occasional visits to the town I love; and if the Duke wishes to fulfill my desires, he must recall me to himself and make me stationary at Ferrara. Renaissance in Italy: Italian Literature Part 1 (of 2) 2011-04-09T02:00:14.990Z Henceforth all his power, all his heart should be flung into the only cause that could make the world endurable. The Way of the Strong 2011-04-07T02:00:21.387Z Then the bivouac becomes endurable, and if the enemy is sufficiently distant, a certain element of gaiety lends a picturesque, even romantic, character to the barbaric gathering. Cuba Past and Present 2011-04-16T02:00:18.193Z It is hard to suffer with no loving hand to wipe the drops of agony from the brow, but endurable when fond lips kiss them away. Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z I am just as well pleased that it is not so," said Darcy, smiling; "a bad case is far more endurable than a bad conscience. The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) 2011-04-04T02:00:09.197Z The only endurable "Squash" in this hot weather is "Lemon Squash." Punch,or The London Charivari, Volume 105, July 22nd, 1893 2011-04-02T02:00:12.230Z Is it endurable to talk of Hercules being acquainted with physics, and that it is impossible to resist a philosopher of such force? A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 10 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version" 2011-03-31T02:00:21.443Z Even her apprehensions for the fate of her lover had been endurable: since hope for his safety had never wholly forsaken her. The White Gauntlet 2011-03-30T02:00:16.130Z That healthful seed which God planted so tenderly in every heart to make life endurable as well as beautiful with its buds and blossoms—can all this ever be rooted up? Lily Pearl and The Mistress of Rosedale 2011-04-05T02:00:12.720Z “Miss” is only a trifle less endurable than the “my dear” of the theater, which I heard to-day for the first time. The Late Tenant 2011-03-28T02:00:25.153Z The business of writing was left to the dwarfs, who felt impelled to distort real values in order to make their own pitiful existence endurable. Pieces of Hate And Other Enthusiams 2011-03-28T02:00:24.120Z The smoke now came thick and heavy around us—each moment growing denser as the fire approached—while the heated atmosphere was no longer endurable. Osceola the Seminole The Red Fawn of the Flower Land 2011-03-22T02:00:20.123Z If Felix insists upon coming," she then continues, "I will do my utmost to make life endurable for him and his wife. Felix Lanzberg's Expiation 2011-03-15T02:00:14.763Z The life had been so lonely and desolate it was only endurable when he worked continually. Professor Huskins 2011-03-13T03:00:20.620Z If there is one person on this earth that is of less account than another it is the person who is helpless, who is dependent upon others for everything that makes life possible or endurable. Is The Bible Worth Reading And Other Essays 2011-03-12T03:00:23.783Z The small, friendly inn, which is one of the delights of European travel, does not exist in Ireland; or, if it does, it is so carelessly managed that it is not endurable. The Charm of Ireland 2011-03-10T03:00:53.650Z The little boy of eight went with his mother, and, so long as she lived—some three years—life was endurable for him, but after her death he was made increasingly miserable. Working Women of Japan 2011-03-09T03:00:49.197Z One day was like another, and the monotony of uninteresting toil was endurable only for the prospect of freedom at the end of the three years. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z The awe of such a moment is terrifying, and the soothing strains of music alone make it endurable. More Tales by Polish Authors 2011-03-04T03:01:05.113Z But, my dear Purcell, I cannot go over a scene which nearly overcame me at the time, and now, in recollection, is scarcely endurable. The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z A cold wind blew; the sky was grey and sad; in all the melancholy and chill there was one thought and one alone that made these sights endurable. A Woman's Experience in the Great War 2011-02-26T03:00:48.257Z It is a sorry part, that of suppliant, but so long as it is for another it is endurable. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z Now that he had tasted the life of pleasure, poverty seemed not again endurable. The Road to Paris 2011-03-07T03:00:11.103Z Beyond them, and before all, was the preacher's daughter—the woman who understood him, and who had even rendered blindness endurable. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z The manufacturers of the far-famed perfume would seem so successfully to have extracted the odor of the richly gifted flowers, that they have actually left nothing endurable by human nose! The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I 2011-03-03T03:00:56.130Z How you can find my company endurable I can never make out.' The Grandchildren of the Ghetto 2011-02-12T03:00:35.663Z Simply that the very quiet life we lead here would not be endurable by people who like the world, and whom the world likes. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z The buildings were wooden and not new; a fashionable architect had made the large house "colonially" endurable with furnaces and electricity as well as with fan-lights and fluted pilasters. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z But the work was in his way after that, and all the effects of his strong will could not make it endurable. Mattie:?A Stray (Vol 3 of 3) 2011-02-16T03:00:37.273Z But in spite of the severe cold winters, that are, in fact, common to all the fur territory, winter is the delightful season for the traders; around the bay it is the only endurable season. On Canada's Frontier Sketches of History, Sport, and Adventure and of the Indians, Missionaries, Fur-traders, and Newer Settlers of Western Canada 2011-02-09T03:00:51.093Z The first stages were mildly unpleasant, encouraging that comfortable sense of martyrdom which belongs to a recognized but endurable complaint. The Secret Battle 2011-02-06T03:00:59.983Z The very things you now reprobate are the few endurable traits about him. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z Only, in common with them, I had the inherent taste for idleness and the genius for making it endurable to you all. The Streets of Ascalon Episodes in the Unfinished Career of Richard Quarren, Esqre. 2011-02-12T03:00:30.987Z The Custom House does not seriously trammel the convenience of traders between this country and the Continent, and it was found endurable when the variance between England and Ireland was more formidable than now. The New Irish Constitution 2011-02-06T03:00:57.247Z Time remedies these defects; but there is one less curable and less endurable—that of pertness and flippancy—the loud remarks and exclamations—the look of self-sufficiency and confidence. The Ladies' Book of Etiquette, and Manual of Politeness A Complete Hand Book for the Use of the Lady in Polite Society 2011-02-01T03:00:13.500Z The former remained narrow, winding, inconvenient—indeed, more inconvenient than ever; for what might be borne with when even ladies of quality traveled on horseback, became scarcely endurable when lumbering coaches were all the fashion. London in Modern Times or, Sketches of the English Metropolis during the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries. 2011-01-28T03:00:22.900Z He was only endurable when by the excess of his conceit he made himself ridiculous. Sir Brook Fossbrooke, Volume I. 2011-02-18T03:00:17.957Z How he enchanted us the first time he told us his escape from the pontoon at Cadiz, but, by the twentieth repetition, upon my word, it is barely endurable!... Abb? Aubain and Mosaics 2011-01-21T03:00:12.617Z I know just where thou art, and how thou art living; and only just there, Pierre, and only just so, is any further life endurable, or possible for me. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z And the elaborate, copious emptiness of the whole Henry James exploit is only redeemed and made endurable by the elaborate, copious wit. Boon, The Mind of the Race, The Wild Asses of the Devil, and The Last Trump; Being a First Selection from the Literary Remains of George Boon, Appropriate to the Times 2011-01-16T03:00:20.530Z This one may be as tiresome, but variety will make it endurable for a time. Quicksands 2011-01-15T03:00:33.213Z As a fact, the beliefs which could alone have made the convent life endurable to her, had never struck more than the most shallow of roots into her consciousness. Consequences 2011-01-14T03:00:53.047Z Year after year Nat had patiently toiled on, for gratitude controlled ambition, and Ruth's presence made his life endurable. Silver Pitchers: and Independence A Centennial Love Story 2011-01-13T03:01:02.190Z For so it is, that the apparently most inflammable or evaporable of all earthly things, wood and water, are, in this view, immensely the most endurable. Pierre; or The Ambiguities 2011-01-17T03:00:45.163Z I was kept a close prisoner, with a sentinel at my door, for nearly four months; the gentlemen about the barracks, however, doing everything in their power to render my confinement more endurable. Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States 2011-01-04T03:01:01.887Z Not only on account of the material consideration, but because the emptiness and loneliness of my life had become no longer endurable. My Actor-Husband A true story of American stage life 2011-01-03T03:01:07.697Z And now the certainty that he had, after all, lost nothing, caused a revulsion of feeling scarcely endurable. Englefield Grange or Mary Armstrong's Troubles 2011-01-01T03:00:27.980Z He bethought him that this unworried peace was endurable only in the world to come. Mashi and Other Stories 2010-12-28T03:00:16.890Z I am thinking at present of Buxton for a few days; the weather is so genial here, that my doctor tells me I may find it still endurable in that cold region. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z Just one show of compassion like an extended hand would have made it much more endurable. Should the Doctor Hold a Patient's Hand? 2010-09-14T20:27:00Z “Work is the only thing which makes life endurable to me,” Darwin wrote and later remarked that it was his “sole enjoyment in life.” Depression?s Upside 2010-02-26T15:37:00Z The exigencies of the Chinese language make a literal translation often scarcely endurable or possible, while a lengthened paraphrase gives a wordiness that is not a true reflection of the epigrammatic pithiness of the original. Proverb Lore Many sayings, wise or otherwise, on many subjects, gleaned from many sources An instinct of obedience, an inclination to unconditional absolute subjection under absolute authority prevails among Mohammedans, to which the utmost cruelty appears endurable, the utmost perversity natural. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VII Of course, a time might come when I should like all this changed a little—for the present, it was the only life I thought endurable. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z Misfortunes may be borne—pain must be endured till it is cured—but superstition such as this, is neither endurable nor curable. Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 4 Could he, as he had said he would, thoroughly dismiss the past, life might, after all, be endurable. By Birth a Lady The thoughts are constantly busy with everything at home, but the long, heavy body lies here trying in vain to find an endurable position among the rough stones. Farthest North Being the Record of a Voyage of Exploration of the Ship 'Fram' 1893-1896 It was much more roomy and endurable than the Marshalsea, and much less wretched than the Fleet. In Jail with Charles Dickens To me it is not only endurable, but the sweetest that, in my peculiar state of mind, I could have chosen. Willing to Die 2010-12-20T17:12:00.040Z At last the train stopped; the sleeper awoke, seemed to find trouble in determining where she was, and then asked if there were any endurable hotels in Rothenburg. A Divided Heart and Other Stories They shall not know, Not they, The exaltations that make endurable here on the Earth The ponderable curtain of flesh. The Cup of Comus Fact and Fancy He implored her to forget their ill-fated attachment, for his own misery would be endurable only when he knew that he had not compromised her happiness. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 But with her big sunshade to protect her 247 from the direct rays, the heat was at least endurable. Into the Primitive At the same time the room itself was less potentially endurable than the ground-floor; there was no fireplace and the few scraps of furniture were more discouraging than the positive emptiness downstairs. Sinister Street, vol. 2 He had wasted three months in this society; he had thought he was happy and had congratulated himself upon at last finding school endurable. Sinister Street, vol. 1 Even the public school was more endurable, especially during the long cold winter. Terry's Trials and Triumphs Towards noon, the heat, endurable enough during the first hours of the morning, became excessive. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 362, December 1845 It is he who has made my hermitage endurable, and filled in the empty spaces of my life. The Tempering And how, in still a different sphere, could the father or the mother of a happy family of children ever have found the freedom and irresponsibility of bachelorhood endurable? Creative Intelligence Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude In the days of Miss Carthew he had only found it endurable if his friends were present. Sinister Street, vol. 1 In 1899 it was found necessary to expel him, since his acts of aggression and defiance were no longer endurable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 3 "Borgia, Lucrezia" to "Bradford, John" Invalids often go to springs merely to find companions in suffering and thus make their condition more endurable. The Children of the World Mere contact with such a man as Barres had already made endurable a solitary servitude which had been subtly destroying her child’s spirit, and slowly dulling the hunger in her famished mind. The Moonlit Way If this is your new friend," said he to his sister, "I must say that I consider her scarcely endurable. Stories for Helen She had quite agreed that six hundred a year, and lodgings in Marylebone, would be quite unendurable; but what was there left for her that would be endurable? Ayala's Angel The air was hot, not an endurable, dry heat, but a moist, sticky heat which drew an intolerable mist from the water standing in pools beneath the plain flooring of the tents. Stories That End Well An Adventure in Altruria——Through the Terrors of the Law——The Real Thing——The Old Partisan——Max—Or His Picture——The Stout Miss Hopkins' Bicycle——The Spellbinder——The Object of the Federation——The Little Lonely Girl——The Hero of Company G——A Miracle Play Now matters are different, and though my means are still limited, my life on the whole will be quite endurable. The Children of the World The house is cold at this season," said Meek, with a sad smile; "but I think it would be very endurable in the autumn months. Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) They give additional attractions to a vagrant and casual life, and make it more endurable. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" In some of the regions of California hottest during the day time, the nights are made endurable, and even delightful, by the cool breezes that sweep down from the tops of the mountains. Nature's Miracles, Volume 1 Familiar Talks on Science—World-Building and Life. Earth, Air and Water. There will never be an endurable translation of Homer, unless its words are chosen with skill and are full of variety, of freshness, and of charm. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow What is done and cannot be undone will at least be more endurable if it is purged of all which the rude hand of malicious chance may have mingled with it. The Children of the World I think I could get on, after a little training; and at all events I know I must try, as life here is not endurable. Faith and Unfaith Viewed in this light, London and Paris, surveyed from the decent obscurity of a tourist, offered a happy compromise—and bridged a yawning gulf—between duty and the endurable. The Great Miss Driver Complaints against him were sent to the Emperor; he was deposed from his office, and so stripped of all that made life endurable to him, that, “wearied with misfortunes,” he died by his own hand. The Expositor's Bible: The Gospel of St John, Vol. II Sometimes he thought that it would be more endurable to blurt out the truth and go into banishment. Shadows of Flames A Novel I'm afraid I am not idealist enough, to find yours endurable. The Children of the World Three, my good Jan, to be quite accurate," said Diogenes calmly, "but all endurable. The Laughing Cavalier The Story of the Ancestor of the Scarlet Pimpernel This must be for Pauline, he decided, since some one must have known the pattern of that nursery wall-paper and, loving it, have wished it to be recorded more endurably. Plashers Mead A Novel Once established in his new quarters, Lanse advanced rapidly towards a more endurable stage of existence. East Angels The first part of her stay in England was more endurable, however, than she had thought possible. Shadows of Flames A Novel This was endurable; but not so the demand presently made upon him to take up the cudgels against Zwingli and Oecolampadius. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 3 "Capefigue" to "Carneades" She put herself in the background, genuinely anxious to do all she could to make endurable her immutable decree. The Shadow We may prate as we will, but there are many things less endurable than the funeral of the best-beloved. The Truth About Tristrem Varick A Novel After months of freedom in pliant moccasins, my feet found this hard confinement barely endurable even when I was mounted. A Volunteer with Pike The True Narrative of One Dr. John Robinson and of His Love for the Fair Señorita Vallois There was not much to make the great adventure of childbirth endurable. Carnival Yesterday, having bought two pillows to sit on, I found the jolting more endurable, and was able to see some of the beauty through which we were passing. Mothering on Perilous A crippled Jamie without an arm or a leg was endurable—that cried out for no blasphemy—but a Jamie without eyes—God in heaven, how could it be! Leerie Nor is it a light reward, if one can think that he has relieved a passing hour of solitude or discomfort, shortened a wintry night, or made a rainy day more endurable. Harper's New Monthly Magazine, February, 1852 There is only one thing that makes life endurable at this moment, and that is that I do know. Lady Cassandra This villa life was only endurable by your Italian noble, who came here once a year to squabble with his 'Fattore' and grind his peasants. One Of Them Lady Rockville privately recommended Harry and Laura to sit quietly down and play at cat’s cradle, which accordingly they did, and when that became no longer endurable, some dominos were produced. Holiday House A Series of Tales Happiness bought at the cost of another's suffering could not be endurable, she said to herself. Peasant Tales of Russia We were shown magnificent garments, handsome garments, fair garments, endurable garments, but the consideration of expense was, in each instance, an impracticable stumbling-block. Travels in Tartary, Thibet, and China During the years 1844-5-6. Volume 1 [of 2] To this class there is no city in America save New York, and New York itself is only partially endurable. Anne The neck, even, is endurable, although it is long and flexible, heavily scaled, and is carried in whatever eye-wringing loops or curves the owner considers most convenient or ornamental at the time. Triplanetary They often spoke of poverty, but rather as a thing to be baffled by good-humored contrivance or rendered endurable by habit than as matter for complaint and bewailment. That Boy Of Norcott's Why is it that art transcends nature, and that ugliness in canvas is more endurable than ugliness in the flesh? A Day's Ride A Life's Romance No other tool is so endurable, or gives such uniform thickness of wire. Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 8, Slice 4 "Diameter" to "Dinarchus" "Nothing but being desperately in love could make this solitude endurable," said he at last. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Nor is it a light reward, if one can think that he has relieved a passing hour of solitude or discomfort, shortened a long wintry night, or made a rainy day more endurable. Maurice Tiernay Soldier of Fortune The great misfortunes of life form more endurable subjects for memory in old age, than the instances, however trivial, where we have acted amiss, and where conscience rebukes us. Arthur O'Leary His Wanderings And Ponderings In Many Lands He's more reliable and endurable than the best machines we've ever made. Human Error After a couple of weeks we got so used to it that we finally found our voyage quite endurable. Reminiscences The Story of an Emigrant It is needless to say how naturally it suggested itself to each that the church subscription was a retrenchment at once practicable and endurable. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly But that had been an endurable shame, for at the heart of it had been self-respect, the indestructible pride of perfect innocence. The Torch Bearer She had retained all that she found endurable of the late Warden's. The New Warden The cold realities that strip life of its ideal happiness are only endurable when age has blunted our affections and chilled our hearts. The O'Donoghue Tale Of Ireland Fifty Years Ago While we have only one companion, life is endurable; left alone, it seems as if it is impossible to struggle on, and we fall back in the race, which is the first sign of despair. Toilers of the Sea "Nothing less than your sympathy would make it endurable;" and as he spoke he lighted a bedroom candle and moved towards the door. The Bramleighs of Bishop's Folly Ah! in those times, and in those seas, ships are possibly endurable, but of all monotonies, that of shipboard is the dullest, most wearisome and detestable. Los Gringos Or, An Inside View of Mexico and California, with Wanderings in Peru, Chili, and Polynesia Bad habits actually nullify good laws, while bad laws may be made quite endurable by good customs. Rural Health and Welfare Even if he were killed trying to escape, it would be endurable. The Enormous Room Ruin is endurable in the mass, but not in the dust and fragments of the fallen edifice. Toilers of the Sea "And now," he continued, having lighted a lamp, "make yourselves as comfortable as you can, while I find Sam and get some things to render our plight a little more endurable." Belford's Magazine, Vol 2, December 1888 I know something of India, and I can tell you it is a country where life is only endurable by splendour. A Rent In A Cloud The chances are," thought George, "that these privations are only endurable because they are practised in secret, and at no sacrifice of worldly estimation. The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life In this view alone the existence of Evil becomes intelligible; but in this view it becomes more—it becomes endurable. Eureka: A Prose Poem If it be true that the uncertainty of the future alone makes living endurable, then Bart Coogan was just now having the time of his life! The Song of the Wolf There is far less fog and damp than in England, and the perfectly calm, sunny days of midwinter are endurable; but the least breath of wind seems to chill one’s very life. With the World's Great Travellers, Volume 1 Being an officer, I suffered but little in comparison with what was endured by the rank and file, our numbers being less, our quarters were more endurable and our facilities for cleanliness much greater. In and Out of Rebel Prisons Their sorrowful compassion was even less endurable than the malice of others; and Grounsell, too, what would his old friend think of a catastrophe so sudden? The Daltons, Volume I (of II) Or,Three Roads In Life If he would only give ’em in German they would be more endurable, but he insists on exhibiting his English. The Red Symbol These banquets and the jail visitors, together with numerous books, magazines and papers—and a phonograph that was in almost constant operation—made the latter part of the long jail days endurable. The Everett massacre A history of the class struggle in the lumber industry Life in Paris, spiced with the political intrigues incident to diplomatic circles, would divert her thoughts, and might possibly make the coming years endurable. Vashti or, Until Death Us Do Part Very often they patch up an utter failure into at least an endurable partnership. Modern marriage and how to bear it Her voice was speaking on an endurable level now. The Sensitive Man Affairs had reached a state that no longer was endurable. The Blue Goose It was only because of the universal absorption in the war at the present time that society had become more endurable. The Campfire Girls on the Field of Honor This would make our winter temperature much more endurable, and our summer temp. delightful. The So-called Human Race Respect will make even the ‘appalling intimacy’ endurable, and will bring one through the most trying disagreements, with no bruise on the soul, whatever wounds there may be in the heart. Modern marriage and how to bear it The vibratto within him faded, and the headache dulled enough to be endurable. The Sensitive Man Much as she loved �lise, if it parted her from all that made life endurable she would not shrink from the sacrifice. The Blue Goose Priggishness was even less endurable to Falkenhein than play and dancing. Jena or Sedan? So many things that make life endurable in this vale of tears are wasteful. The So-called Human Race She had to escape at once from the dislike of some and the still less endurable liking of others. The Galaxy, Volume 23, No. 2, February, 1877 Only her insensitiveness made his constant caress endurable. Coquette The Catherine Wheel, in their case, had by that time settled down from a tempest of flame-spray to a steady lamplight, endurable by bystanders. When Ghost Meets Ghost You know very well, my dear Henry, the exact terms upon which we have both found married life endurable. The Moving Finger Many a poor man's cheerless home would be made much more comfortable and endurable if a few shilling's worth of good pictures were posted or hung round its bare walls. Cole's Funny Picture Book No. 1 She denied herself everything that to us would make life desirable or even endurable—sacrificed the dearest ties of kindred, and pursued with intense fervour the self-imposed rigours of her vocation. Famous Firesides of French Canada On one day Mr. Browning found the heat on the Lido “scarcely endurable,” indeed, but “snow-tipped Alps” revealed themselves in the distance, offering a strange contrast to the brilliant sunshine and the soft blue skies. The Brownings Their Life and Art I had a letter from E—— yesterday, desiring me to forward my book to them, and talking of still remaining where they are, as long as the heat is endurable and the children continue well. Records of Later Life The discoveries arising from the study of anatomy, physiology, bacteriology, and neurology, with the use of anaesthetics and antiseptics in connection with surgery, have made war less horrible and suffering more endurable. History of Human Society This sense is likewise modified by habit; odors which, in the first instance, were very offensive, may not only become endurable, but even agreeable. A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) I will either be all or nothing to a man like Robert; no feeble shuffling or false cant is endurable. Shirley This I can say, that such heat is more endurable than common heat. The Turkish Bath Its Design and Construction The profound sense of the justice of our Maker renders all things endurable; but the idea of the arbitrary infliction of misery puts one's whole soul in revolt. Records of Later Life It was not that they had not made any thing: that would have been endurable, considering the kind of winter. Hope Mills or, Between Friend and Sweetheart At any rate he was not so wild as the other Dongolese of the Sudân, and captivity in his house would be more endurable. In Desert and Wilderness It was irresolution that made “Hamlet” a five-act play, and only a Shakespeare could have kept him endurable. The Cup of Fury A Novel of Cities and Shipyards As it was, both his parents were so discreet concerning his confidence that neither had mentioned it since that night—which made his situation endurable. The Side Of The Angels A Novel I have lost in him one of the few persons who cheer and make endurable my residence here. Records of Later Life Those endless hours were either mercifully forgotten or else contracted to an endurable minimum; but the unforgettable moments would light themselves up in his memory without a detail missing. The Camera Fiend But we know also that there are degrees of demerit, and, theory or no theory, we fall back on the first verse of the English Liturgy, as containing a more endurable account of things. Bunyan It would take me no reasonable nor endurable time, if I were to point out one half of the various kinds and classes of falsehood which the inventive faculties of the old masters succeeded � 16. Modern Painters Volume I (of V) I see no endurable way to prevent it.” An Orkney Maid This is quite endurable even to foreigners in a climate where the temperature seldom falls below 60° Fahr., and averages the year round nearly ten degrees higher. Aztec Land The cold had steadily increased until it was just barely endurable. The Heart of Thunder Mountain Ordinarily Rhodes would have given no heed to any simple ranch utensils gathered under the shadow where work was more endurable, but the fear in the face of the boy fascinated him. The Treasure Trail A Romance of the Land of Gold and Sunshine The vexatious dispute upon her title had been dropped, from an inability to press it; and it seemed as if life had become at least endurable to her, if it never could be more. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. The unfailing good humor of the new superintendent had done something to prepare the ground for an endurable relation between them. The Vagrant Duke But there is really a dash of romance about such things, which almost makes them endurable. Shoulder-Straps A Novel of New York and the Army, 1862 They tried five or six before they found one who combined the traits of being both enduring and endurable. In a Little Town Their huts were miserable abodes, barely endurable in pleasant weather, but comfortless in the extreme when the wind filled them with smoke, or the rain dripped through the branches. King Philip Makers of History The gun contained a bullet which, Dic thought, with small satisfaction, might within a short time end his worldly troubles, and the troubles seemed more endurable than ever before. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties “I find them a drowsy, insipid set of creatures, only endurable when I appear among them as so much pepper,” are his sarcastic words. Blood and Iron Origin of German Empire As Revealed by Character of Its Founder, Bismarck "The ladies; the only endurable aristocracy, who rule without laws—judge without jury—decide without appeal, and are never in the wrong." The Book of Anecdotes and Budget of Fun; containing a collection of over one thousand of the most laughable sayings and jokes of celebrated wits and humorists. This cold would have been endurable in calm weather; but the wind was blowing at that time, and it seemed as if the air was filled with sharp needles. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras After Justinian's death, the Romans sent an embassy to his successor complaining that their lot had been more endurable under the dominion of barbarians than under the Greeks. The Formation of Christendom, Volume VI The Holy See and the Wandering of the Nations, from St. Leo I to St. Gregory I That they apply the rule to themselves, doesn't help to make it endurable. A Forest Hearth: A Romance of Indiana in the Thirties Nothing but the confidence which he reposed upon Clara's love, rendered the bright sunshine an endurable blessing to the sadly distempered youth. Graham's Magazine Vol XXXII. No. 5. May 1848 And in general all celebrated and notorious afflictions become endurable by disregarding them. The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero The day was calm; the cold was very endurable in the absence of wind. The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras I am used to jealousies: the petty ones of my own sex are quite endurable; it is when you men are jealous that we poor women often have to suffer. A Bride of the Plains The heat was still terrific but endurable now. Spawn of the Comet He forgot that it would be quite impossible for some minds to think, and that such need a continual excitement to make the hours endurable. The Elm Tree Tales Why should he be more courageous if he thinks it—what you yourself admit it to be—bitter and scarcely endurable? The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by Cicero To be endurable, compliments should be made use of in a very cautious and artful manner. Social Life or, The Manners and Customs of Polite Society Poverty is not the worst of human ills, and even occasional want, if it be not too prolonged, is endurable—more endurable than brutal neglect and indifference. Miss Grantley's Girls And the Stories She Told Them Least endurable was S. Cohn in his religious rigidity, and he could never understand that pietistic exercises in which he found pleasure did not inevitably produce ecstasy in his son and heir. Ghetto Comedies Life at Rutherford was no longer endurable to him; for months past, ever since her engagement, he had chafed under a sense of insupportable restlessness. Lover or Friend For these things, if the pirates had only known it, they found the world endurable. The River Prophet Tildy was plain, and very much lower than Maggie in the social scale; but Tildy admired her, and because of that admiration made her life more or less endurable in the fusty, musty lodgings. The School Queens Even the objectionable velvet suit and girlish hat would be endurable under the circumstances. Divided Skates Even the short November days seemed to her endless, and the evenings had only the early bedtime to make them endurable. Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story He had never liked London, though it had become endurable to him by familiarity. Beside Still Waters Take it out of their lives and you will take much that makes their lives not only enjoyable but endurable. The Empire of the East Fine cynics are endurable, and give a certain zest often to society, which might become too civil without them; but your coarse cynic is not pleasant. Phoebe, Junior As long as the town was feverish with excitement he found it endurable. With Hoops of Steel She said: We do not complain that man is slow to realize the injustice of his present attitude towards woman—an attitude once, from necessity, endurable; now, from too long continuance, grown intolerable. History of Woman Suffrage, Volume III During Mary's government, which had been endurable only because men foresaw its speedy end, all eyes were directed to her younger sister Elizabeth. A History of England Principally in the Seventeenth Century, Volume I (of 6) There is everything here, in one's own house, to make the heat endurable, and just what we miss when we go to a hotel. Nobody But the memory of it makes my days more endurable. The Prairie Child While in such case no perfect purity can be claimed to exist, the situation can be made endurable if discretion is used and trouble is taken to explain. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost Archie was bad enough sometimes, but then he was Archie, and had a right to his bad humors; but with the boys and girls it was less endurable. Not Like Other Girls No other arrangement seemed endurable or possible to him. The Combined Maze The sun was going down and some stray wafts of wind wandered along, which made the heat rather more endurable. A Modern Cinderella It’s the Dutch courage that makes deprivation and long waiting endurable. The Prairie Child Any other vice is more endurable in a preacher than these two, though none is compatible with goodness, blamelessness and perfection being required in the ministry according to Paul, Titus 1, 7. Epistle Sermons, Vol. II Epiphany, Easter and Pentecost The first summer passed in this manner; the second was a little better; and the third better still—until at last the way of life became endurable. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 349, November, 1844 So matters went on for several weeks, but they were weeks of increasing uneasiness and pain for Norma, and she knew that Chris found them even less endurable than she. The Beloved Woman It is hardly an endurable task to read the story of their doings; thoroughly to imagine them as a past reality is already a sort of torture. The Essays of "George Eliot" Complete I no longer have him to make what is left of my life endurable.... The Prairie Child Social misarrangements, which are crimes towards the individual, are invariably partially righted, made endurable, by individual rearrangements, which are crimes towards society. The Countess of Albany Perfection," said America's greatest orator on the floor of the Senate, "is endurable only because unattainable. The Gay Rebellion Frank devoted himself all the more earnestly to his father’s care and comfort, and his doing so made this time of trouble more endurable for both. The Inglises Or, How the Way Opened All the while the autumn was deepening and wild life was becoming more endurable. The Great Sioux Trail A Story of Mountain and Plain Slavery, which had before been endurable with patience and submission, was now intolerable. Watch and Wait or The Young Fugitives Salient points—clean, easily applied, a more endurable heat. Scottish Football Reminiscences and Sketches His sentiments varied from apathy to pathos, from self-pity to mortification, from hungry despair to an indignation no longer endurable. The Gay Rebellion Then, though we be toiling up the Matterhorn, or swept along in the rush of a bayonet charge, we may still find existence not only endurable, but in the highest degree exhilarating. Birds in the Bush His Journal at that period contains two entries, however, which show that neither Lady Fitz Rewes nor Reckage were wrong in fearing he had received a mortal blow which no earthly influence could make endurable. Robert Orange Being a Continuation of the History of Robert Orange It was some time before Snowball could recover his exact equilibrium; for, of all sorts of climate, that least endurable to the Coromantee negro is a cold one. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea It is a well-known fact, that there are large districts in tropical America where human life is scarce endurable, on account of the mosquitos, gnats, ants, and other insects. The Plant Hunters Adventures Among the Himalaya Mountains This was the very consolation which rendered the deaths of the patriarchs endurable; yea, which enabled them to depart from this life with joy. Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood It either means an endurable monument such as will outlive time, or it darkly hints at the impending fate of Hamlet. Hamlet This is a strong reason why a high degree of civilization, where there are not counteracting influences, must make slavery less endurable. Principles Of Political Economy Death in that shape would not be more endurable in one place than another; and it would make no difference under what meridian they should depend the last few minutes of their lives. The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea We were stranded at this pleasant place of endurable ennui for three long months, during which there was no going out from nine to five p.m. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 62, Number 361, November, 1845. A sedan-chair is too luxurious to be long endurable, so I added a pony to our caravan, purchased, from a home-going Dane of the customs service, for forty-four dollars Mexican. A Wayfarer in China Impressions of a trip across West China and Mongolia In this one relic all her love and hope And all that made her life endurable At length were centred. The Woman Who Dared Since my first offence against you—and against myself—which was marrying you—I have attempted in every way I knew to repair the offence, and to render the mistake endurable to you. Athalie No gain less than the acquisition of Wallachia and Moldavia would reinstate Alexander in their good will or make the French alliance endurable. The Life of Napoleon Bonaparte Vol. III. (of IV.) George naturally preferred the former, as the more endurable evil; but Ella's letters from abroad began to hint more and more plainly at delay. The Talking Horse And Other Tales He anticipated those who have been most popular because they made our War entrancing and endurable. Waiting for Daylight Let us not be of the class unbearable who are ever trying to dissipate those lovely illusions that keep alive human complacency and make life endurable. The Faith Doctor A Story of New York Towards noon the heat became so intense as to be hardly endurable, still we pushed forward with unvarying speed. Seven and Nine years Among the Camanches and Apaches An Autobiography Where Shakespeare's humour still touches us most nearly is precisely in those scenes which the superficial custom of our age finds least endurable. Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations She had never succeeded in cultivating a very lively affection for them; to-day she found them barely endurable. The Talking Horse And Other Tales Still, even Miss Arundel's sarcasm was endurable, anything was endurable, after that gratifying remark. The Third Miss Symons The sun might shine, the fields might be in the fullness of their glory, the crops bountiful—they were deceptions to divert man in his tasks and to make these more endurable! The Dead Command From the Spanish Los Muertos Mandan The proper and decent basis of marriage was similarity of station, and the good, solid qualities which might be supposed endurable. The Hero For within the last few minutes she seemed to have been robbed of all the things which had made existence here endurable and she was determined to end it all. The Trail to Yesterday I could see now what she had been to me; how she had made my great loneliness endurable; how, with her innocent, fearless nature, she had tried to rouse me from spiritless and unmanly dejection. The Talking Horse And Other Tales Stolid, brutish ignorance can alone render the bonds of the slave endurable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 18, No. 109, November, 1866 You could surely rely on my humble aid toward making their sojourn in the wilderness endurable. A Pessimist In Theory and Practice Only the deepest love can make that difference endurable; but the love would be all on my side—if I had any then. The Hero Nay, rather years which make endurable, which furnish and warm the present, giving it sweetness and significance. Hortus Vitae Essays on the Gardening of Life It is only endurable, you know, while, like Ványa, you overflow with life's energy. The Light Shines in Darkness The wilderness would be more endurable if dad and I were all alone.... The Flaming Jewel “Then we must try and make London endurable for you,” he remarked cheerfully. Anna the Adventuress Percy had been in the frying-pan three weeks; life there, though not pleasant, had been endurable. Jim Spurling, Fisherman or Making Good Many lives that once seemed spoiled have become quite endurable. The Bill-Toppers Paradise would be quite endurable if he and Violet might stand side by side in the serried ranks of choristers. Vixen, Volume II. There was a moderate and endurable amount of speechifying by-and-by, when the monster double-crowned pines had been cut, and the purple grapes, almost as big as pigeons' eggs, had gone round. Vixen, Volume I. His appearance put the longed-for end to a far less endurable condition of things. The Tell El Amarna Period In the summer noon a sandy soil becomes so warm as to be hardly endurable to the feel, and again it is on such soils that the earliest frosts take effect. Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel And far more other people are now concerned than of old; not least those who have learned to make the playhouse endurable. A Small Boy and Others "I was never more ready—never more impatient for a march," said Maccabeus, rising abruptly, for it seemed to him as if violent physical exertions alone could render life endurable. Hebrew Heroes A Tale Founded on Jewish History So far the situation was endurable, but it could not continue indefinitely. A Coin of Edward VII A Detective Story Culture is to Nature what good manners are to man, rendering poverty of character endurable. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 15, No. 87, January, 1865 In August he stuck to his work till London was no longer endurable. The Bertrams Miss Lacey was a necessary accompaniment to Miss Derwent, and she therefore dwelt in a reflected light, which made her fussy catechisms and exactions endurable. The Opened Shutters The prognosis is unfavorable as regards a cure, but the process may usually be kept in abeyance or rendered endurable by proper measures. Essentials of Diseases of the Skin Including the Syphilodermata Arranged in the Form of Questions and Answers Prepared Especially for Students of Medicine He sat glowering at life, as if it were just endurable at dinner time, until four of his fellows began to sing, most unmelodiously, a part song. The Letters of Charles Dickens Vol. 2, 1857-1870 Her Uncle Robert’s preternatural gravity, and Mrs Abbott’s total incapacity to see the fun, were barely endurable. It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot If he should refuse it, all those whom he loved would in truth suffer great privation; and that privation would not be rendered more endurable by the knowledge that such an offer had been refused. The Bertrams The air was cooler and fresher, the vegetation was that of drier soil and drier atmosphere, insect life was less noxious, and the labours of the way grew more endurable. Sea-Dogs All! A Tale of Forest and Sea There was good about the old lady, and by purloining her artificials, limiting her snuff, and soaking her in tea, she was made endurable enough. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 62, No. 384, October 1847 The Pullman car has fortunately come to make railway travelling in America endurable. Faces and Places Certainty is said to be more endurable than suspense. Barbarians If she could only jump at once to that time in which habit would have made her fate endurable! The Bertrams When he reached the restaurant he could think of only three men whose companionship would be endurable, and failing to get any of them on the telephone resigned himself to a solitary dinner. Black Oxen But it was something of that old world, like an old book which reads the same today; or an old friend surviving, who would help to make endurable the years to come. Old Junk It is the fogs alone that make the climate of California, especially in the Southern part endurable. Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power And if I can make things more endurable here—if I can get rid of—it must be in my own way, I tell you. Peggy Such desperate remedies may not even be right; but such remedies are endurable as long as they are admittedly desperate. Eugenics and Other Evils But otherwise, it may be very different, and I hope more endurable. The Flag of Distress A Story of the South Sea It was a morning of June, just before the commencement of the rainy season—at that period of the day and year when the tropic sun of Southern Mexico is least endurable. The Tiger Hunter "Life would be endurable if it were not for its pleasures," they declare in the face of a pile of social invitations. Over the Fireside with Silent Friends Call it servitude, vassalage, anything else, it might be endurable enough. The Continental Monthly, Vol 2, No 6, December 1862 Devoted to Literature and National Policy With what spirit, in one word, can thou deem this endurable? The Roman Traitor, Vol. 2 As I had a corner of the coach, the tyranny of his Prussian majesty was tolerably endurable, and I soon fell fast asleep. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844 That which renders the constitution of the state genuinely solid and endurable is the judicious adaptation of laws to natural conditions. The World's Greatest Books — Volume 14 — Philosophy and Economics But not even the favour of George III could render the crabbed old Chancellor endurable. William Pitt and the Great War The fun was rather heavy, but the audience was very good natured, and whatever the witnesses lacked in wit, they made up in extravagance of costume, so that two hours were whiled away quite endurably. Glances at Europe In a Series of Letters from Great Britain, France, Italy, Switzerland, &c. During the Summer of 1851. And all who are used to French roads know well that a route nationale is always excellent,95 and that a route départementale is always endurable and something more. Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine The agitation of my mind was not longer endurable. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch As the aggressions increased and became less and less endurable, Chief Agueynaba resolved, out of the soreness of his heart, to test this reputed immortality of his guests. Myths & Legends of our New Possessions & Protectorate In the midst of sorrow there are often given, to soften and render it endurable, passing flashes of absolute joy. Fairy Fingers A Novel So it was a thing settled: Charles was to be sent home,—an endurable banishment. Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert Through the short time of his administration here, he was overwhelmed with vexations only a little more endurable than the physical distresses which had weighed him down at Venice. Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Essay 4: Joseph de Maistre In the seclusion of my little cabin, my fate was more endurable than the horrors of Siberia could have been, but it was inexpressibly lonesome. Mizora: A Prophecy A MSS. Found Among the Private Papers of the Princess Vera Zarovitch In the general case, it seems scarce endurable. Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Volume V (of 10) If you express your regret at her recent indisposition, she will describe the exquisite robes de chambre which rendered her sufferings endurable. Fairy Fingers A Novel There was water in abundance to be had from the spring, and altogether their lot was far and away more satisfactory and endurable than that of the poor marooned pirate had been. Across the Spanish Main A Tale of the Sea in the Days of Queen Bess All this, Kenrick’s father—who had been curate of the village—had fancied would be at least endurable to any man upheld by a strong sense of duty. St. Winifred's, or The World of School We are wont to say, Margaret, that everything is endurable but a sense of guilt. Deerbrook It had arrived at so splendid a plane of civilization that nobody could imagine any improvement—unless a better tranquilizer could be designed to make it more endurable. The Pirates of Ersatz It made her uneasiness all the less endurable. Romola Strike the Bible from the sphere of any man's experience and he is in a measure left out of much of that conversation which helps to make life endurable. Confessions of a Book-Lover Their administration is never pushed so as to produce complete unconsciousness, unless some operation is necessary, but merely so as to diminish sensibility and render the pains endurable. The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother I cannot but think that any grief which reveals itself is very endurable.” Deerbrook Jack’s life in school was much more endurable now that he had a friend in Bob Holliday. The Hoosier School-boy He has endured her; aye! he has even been happy with her at times—the relationship has been endurable—'twere imbecility, and death for both, to break it. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators The fact that Bill had now assumed the character of a patient rather than that of a portent seemed to make the trouble, somehow, more normal and endurable. Aladdin & Co. A Romance of Yankee Magic Still, Mr. C. Chaplin has made it endurable. Nights in London He argued that the disease was not mortal and endurable, and that it would kill the country to use the knife. The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Such treatment was not calculated to bind me to such a people, whose only aim appeared to be to deprive me of every comfort and enjoyment that made life endurable. The Mormon Menace The Confessions of John Doyle Lee, Danite Cleopatra had come hating this man Antony, and to her surprise she found him endurable—and more. Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 7 Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Orators Cain.Yes, but love more320 What makes my feelings more endurable, And is more than myself, because I love it! The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 Poetry It was not merely endurable, it was delightful. Janet's Love and Service "No—no—no—but it was hardly the more endurable for that," said the lady, with a smile. Edmond Dantès This expression I desire to repeat here for perpetuation in endurable form. Fifty Years of Public Service It may be endurable in Melbourne or Sydney, but the little town of Perth has few attractions to recommend it, and those few had been long exhausted. My Friend The Murderer To have failed to obtain what she had never sought, and did not want, was in Lysken’s eyes an easily endurable affliction. Clare Avery A Story of the Spanish Armada Uncongenial as he had at first found the employment which his uncle had provided for him, he pursued it with a patient steadiness, which made it first endurable, then pleasant to him. Janet's Love and Service We cannot tell how far public opinion may have paralysed an authority which the law conferred, or how far natural affection may have rendered it endurable. Ancient Law Its Connection to the History of Early Society They were settled on the Borneo river when the Borneo government, never very good, or otherwise than comparatively violent and disorderly, was most endurable. The Expedition to Borneo of H.M.S. Dido For the Suppression of Piracy She stinted herself that she might make their lot more endurable. Mary Wollstonecraft Wearied with my rough seat, which the companionship of Mr. Tolly had alone rendered endurable so long, I now got inside; the Philadelphia gentleman succeeding to the vacancy on the box. Impressions of America During the years 1833, 1834 and 1835. In Two Volumes, Volume I. What he could not remedy he resolved to make as endurable as possible. History of the Rise of the Huguenots Vol. 1 They usually had, also, long, adjustable handles, which helped to make endurable the blazing heat of the great logs. Home Life in Colonial Days But such creatures of habit are we that, after a little, we manage by proper care to make even that endurable. Four Years in Rebel Capitals An Inside View of Life in the Southern Confederacy from Birth to Death His goggles made the light endurable, but he felt ashamed. Sand Doom A bountiful supply of hopefulness is also necessary, in order, at times, to make the darkness and discomfort of the present endurable, and this will wonderfully cheer and create patience. A Woman who went to Alaska I wonder," exclaimed Elsa, "how women will ever get time to vote when it takes all their time to make men endurable to live with. The Forbidden Trail But I am so very glad you think it endurable, and it is so nice to be able to give you a moment's pleasure by such a thing. Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston It was in truth a fair and pleasant morning—of an icy coldness indeed, but the air being dry, its shrewdness was endurable. The Frozen Pirate "May I ask how he managed to make himself so endurable to you?" Molly Bawn "Why this way," said Snac, bending his knees to make the tight embraces of his cords endurable. Aunt Rachel Unless she had it fully out every day, neither would life be worth having for herself, nor would she allow the life of any other people to be endurable. Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 450 Volume 18, New Series, August 14, 1852 It is only in narrative that they are at all endurable. Cornelius O'Dowd Upon Men And Women And Other Things In General If the world of Exeter would say that he had ill-used the girl, and had broken off the engagement for mere fancy,—as she had done,—that would be much more endurable. Kept in the Dark I reckon it's the end that makes everything endurable. Blue Bonnet's Ranch Party During the last weeks, as the opportunity of reading the complete thing drew near, one's suspense was barely endurable, and I shall never forget the July evening on which I put it to rout. Embarrassments That life which outlasted all the friends of its zenith was made endurable by a constant devotion to the greatest works of the greatest men. The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 If she had really loved Frederick Harper, perhaps her condition would have been more endurable than now. Agatha's Husband A Novel But when hunger was appeased, there came gradually upon him the far less endurable condition of thirst. Philosopher Jack To add to his troubles, hunger came upon Tim about his usual supper-time, and what was far worse, because much less endurable, sleep put in a powerful claim to attention. The Prairie Chief It is only made endurable to them by sport and gambling and boisterous house-parties; and when, from one cause or another, these resources fail, they are frankly bored, and long for London. Fifteen Chapters of Autobiography And it will not be in a town that has an endurable hotel—that ought to be easy to arrange, in this part of the world. On the Stairs The heat, as Rhymer had forewarned his messmates, was very great, though not enough to roast an ox; and when there was a breeze, it was at all events endurable in the shade. Ned Garth Made Prisoner in Africa. A Tale of the Slave Trade In this at that time retired suburb he hoped to be able to keep the inevitable but useless interruptions within endurable limits. Benjamin Franklin Suspense, they say, is less endurable than actual collision with danger. The Prairie Chief The position, however, is endurable, and only passes this point as a thought comes into his mind—a memory that flashes across his brain, as if a bullet had struck him between the temples. The Lone Ranche A good friendly shout from a multitude is well, and a passing hearty curse endurable. Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry Life would only be endurable if she herself could seize the leading place, and hold it relentlessly to the end. Etheldreda the Ready A School Story It was the little sparrow the Chemist had sent in from the outside world—maddened now by thirst and hunger, which to the reptile had been much more endurable. The Girl in the Golden Atom Nor could much fault be found with the climate, for, although the island lay well within the tropics, the constant sea breeze must certainly temper the heat and render it perfectly endurable. Overdue The Story of a Missing Ship "It would be endurable if we knew what had happened, or if we ever could know definitely, one way or the other, whether all this was necessary." Skylark Three It was a most unusual day for Cebu, as the slightly overcast sky made the temperature quite endurable. A Woman's Journey through the Philippines On a Cable Ship that Linked Together the Strange Lands Seen En Route Yet in face of the great danger which still threatened them all these things appeared endurable.... The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece The neck, even, is endurable, although it is long and flexible, heavily scaled, and is carried in whatever eye-wringing loops, knots, or angles the owner considers most convenient or ornamental at the time. Triplanetary In it were placed hot coals from a glowing wood fire, and from it came a welcome warmth to make endurable the freezing floors of the otherwise unwarmed meeting-house. Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771 Yet he continued, for all that, to make life endurable. Short Studies on Great Subjects Ah! death would be more endurable than this constant agony. The Man With The Broken Ear I can only tell you what I have felt to be the only thing which makes life endurable at a time of real sorrow—God Himself. Letters to His Friends Still, this was endurable to the Poor Boy, because she was only his sister; but when the prince saw the girl, heard her voice, and perceived her love for the dragon, he became perfectly frantic. Roumanian Fairy Tales Life there was at all events endurable, which the life she had spent for the last week was certainly not. Isabel Leicester A Romance by Maude Alma Somehow, his hitherto blithe spirits were dampened by this morning's walk, and he thought the great bare Rock would be a great deal more endurable if the fish-huts and their inmates were only off it. Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught This made it our greatest difficulty to keep warm, and effectually destroyed all those pleasant fireside chats that had done so much to make our condition endurable in the Atlanta barracks. Daring and Suffering: A History of the Great Railroad Adventure To carry on bravely the work which she and Tom had begun had been an excruciating torture to Grace, made endurable only by the thought that at least she was fulfilling Tom's wishes. Grace Harlowe's Golden Summer It might be, eh?—Humph!—Virgil and Shakespeare are the only ones who sometimes make poetry endurable. The Spinner's Book of Fiction Norfolk is just endurable in October, when game and 'longshore herrings are in. Dross True, it would be much lonelier, but that was far more endurable than the sight of such shiftlessness and ignorance. Culm Rock The Story of a Year: What it Brought and What it Taught It was the study of Lenox, which, for all her perturbation, she had packed as tenderly as if it were a live thing; and which alone had made life endurable for the past three days. The Great Amulet Still, as Mozart and Bach are endurable now, there is no warrant for any supposition that Chopin would not be tolerated a half century hence. Old Fogy His Musical Opinions and Grotesques That which especially renders their incarceration endurable is the illimitable opportunity they enjoy of seeing and corresponding with those persons with whom they are in love. The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional |
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