Tolerated

Examples

• He took pains to prove that he only just tolerated me. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• But for their usefulness in partially cleansing these terrible streets, they would not be tolerated long. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• This man would not have been tolerated at Melton, but that Brummell once said he used good perfume. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
• She is the daughter of a heathen old man named Betteredge--long, too long, tolerated in my aunt's family. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• This graver world of 1920 does seem to be awakening to the truth that there are realities worth seeking and evils not to be tolerated. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Archer's New York tolerated hypocrisy in private relations; but in business matters it exacted a limpid and impeccable honesty. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Honest mistakes may be tolerated, but not carelessness, incompetence, or lack of attention to business. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• People understood that Tellson's, in a stately way, tolerated the odd-job-man. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• They were never tolerated at Maple Grove. Jane Austen. Emma.
• Repression is an insignificant part of its work; the use of the club can never be applauded, though it may be tolerated _faute de mieux_. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• She had so many half inferiors, whom she tolerated with perfect good-humour. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• At the court of the Tuileries, said Mr. Sillerton Jackson with his reminiscent smile, such things were pretty openly tolerated. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Of course, then, observed Miss Keeldar, you only just tolerated him in return? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• Kashkin had only been tolerated there. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• They were, for a long time, barely tolerated by it. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
• The house had always tolerated some person in that capacity, and time and tide had drifted this person to the post. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
• Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• On these hot July nights, close air could not be tolerated, and the chamber-door stood wide open. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• That word was not only tolerated; its repetition was courted. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Dubious results are not tolerated for a moment in Edison's experimental work. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• In this country are such things tolerated? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.

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