Suffered

Examples

• What a fine town but how the _buena gente_, the good people of that town, have suffered in this war. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• She suffered Mr. Franklin to lead her back into the room. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• I suffered her to do as she pleased. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• O mother, you must have suffered! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Meyler, in his anxiety to make us all speak to him, suffered Fanny to depart in peace. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• And nothing is so devastating, nothing--' 'Yes,' said Ursula humbly, 'you must have suffered. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• It was taken on his return home from the African station, where he had suffered from the fever of the country. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Thus far, Gurth, said he, addressing his attendant, the reputation of English chivalry hath not suffered in my hands. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• It must not be suffered. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• She has suffered somewhat from the bite of the adder; but it is exhaustion which has overpowered her. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• He suffered heavily, did my unfortunate boy. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
• Even before these incursions learning had suffered under the calamity of war. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Faculties less delicately balanced, constitutions less tenderly organised, must have suffered under such an ordeal as this. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
• Great Britain has hitherto suffered her subject and subordinate provinces to disburden themselves upon her of almost this whole expense. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• And I wish to make atonement to you as the one still remaining who has suffered a loss through me. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• The Athenian democracy suffered much from that narrowness of patriotism which is the ruin of all nations. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But he suffered Mr Casby to go out, without offering any further remark, and then took a peep at him over the little green window-blinds. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Lizzy, cried her mother, remember where you are, and do not run on in the wild manner that you are suffered to do at home. Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• But this Doctor has suffered much; you have seen him to-day; you have observed his face when the paper was read. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Nothing could do away the knowledge of what the latter had suffered through his means, nor remove the guilt of his conduct towards Eliza. Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• I cannot think well of a man who sports with any woman's feelings; and there may often be a great deal more suffered than a stander-by can judge of. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• He had been treated hardly and suffered, and he became hard; nevertheless he stands out in history as a man of rare, unblemished honesty. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It had been tried, but she suffered so much that it was given up, and she did her lessons at home with her father. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
• So debating becomes a way of confirming your own prejudices; it is never, never in any debate I have suffered through, a search for understanding from the angles of two differing insights. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• However much she had suffered, most of her neighbours seem to have suffered more. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Adrian, whose health had always been weak, now suffered considerable aggravation of suffering from the effects of his wound. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• In the summer of 1911, prolonged drought in North Carolina lowered the rivers to such an extent that towns dependent upon them suffered greatly. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But Bell had been giving so much time and attention to this absorbing project that his teaching had suffered. Rupert S. Holland. Historic Inventions.
• His tone was cold and ironical; its bitterness but reflecting the terrible disappointment he had suffered. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• It is computed that eleven thousand persons have at several times suffered death, rather than submit to break their eggs at the smaller end. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.

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