Borne

Examples

• But why should I not bear it as others have borne it before me! Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He is borne into Mr. Tulkinghorn's great room and deposited on the Turkey rug before the fire. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• I have borne all this for you already, as true as God sees me show it. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
• But he hasn't borne the Roman yoke as I have, nor yet he hasn't been required to pander to your depraved appetite for miserly characters. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• We should go mad had we to endure the hundredth part of those daily pains which are meekly borne by many women. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• What was it that was borne in upon my mind when she stood still and looked attentively at me? Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
• I have borne long with self-reproach that would have roused any mind less torpid and cowardly than mine. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Four hands were immediately laid upon me, and I was borne upstairs. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• It filled him with almost insane fury, this calm assumption of the Magna Mater, that all was hers, because she had borne it. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The tenor, therefore, of their affections and feelings, must have borne the same general proportion to our own. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• If she had been really as pretty as you thought her, I might have borne it better. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• Her wretchedness I could have borne, but her passionher maliceAt all events it must be appeased. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• Bear with the truths I would tell you now, dearest Emma, as well as you have borne with them. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Methought I heard a noise, a step in the far chapel, which was re-echoed by its vaulted roof, and borne to me through the hollow passages. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• She wished it had been night instead of morning, that she might at least have borne her misery without the possibility of being seen. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• No woman could have borne what she has. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• Therefore, the police sent for something to cover it, and it was covered and borne through the streets, the people falling away. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• If his energy could have borne down that check, he might still have wrought on Rosamond's vision and will. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Hence, materials suspended in the water are borne along and deposited at various places (Fig. 34). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Having done such a thing there is a loneliness that cannot be borne, Pablo said to her quietly. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They were to be humoured, borne with very patiently: a courteous though sedate manner impressed them; a very rare flash of raillery did good. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• No, it was not to be borne. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• It must be borne in mind that the laboratory is only the core of a group of buildings devoted to production on a huge scale by hundreds of artisans. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• Why, to own the truth, I am afraid you are rather thrown away, and that with every disposition to bear, there will be nothing to be borne. Jane Austen. Emma.
• His body, borne by the impetus of his headlong rush, plunged upon me. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Man was hers because she had borne him. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• The gloom-stricken old father was still more borne down by his fate and sorrow. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The tale full of fire, quick with interest, borne away by the morning wind, became a vague murmur. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• I am deeply sorry for the reproaches you have borne on my account. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• That cannot be borne, she mocked him. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.

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