Enduring

Examples

• Jane, I am not a gentle-tempered man--you forget that: I am not long- enduring; I am not cool and dispassionate. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
• From the delicate hair spring of a watch to the massive armor plate of a battleship, it finds endless applications, and is nature’s most enduring gift to man--abundant, cheap, and lasting. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• Nevertheless, from the first writings onward a new sort of tradition, an enduring and immortal tradition, began in the minds of men. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Her figure was light and airy; and, though capable of enduring great fatigue, she appeared the most fragile creature in the world. Mary Shelley. Frankenstein_Or_The Modern Prometheus.
• Oh, don't say that; when I'm enduring it! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• In a well-known early Buddhist dialogue there is a destructive analysis of the idea of an enduring individual soul. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Yet it was not until the nineteenth century that the marvelous change was made from the short-lived candle to the more enduring oil lamp. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• So high and so conceited that there was no enduring him! Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
• Thus our ordinary daily experiences cease to be things of the moment and gain enduring substance. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I was not made so enduring to be mated with a lamb; I should find more congenial responsibility in the charge of a young lioness or leopardess. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
• It is possible that the Southern man started in with a little more dash than his Northern brother; but he was correspondingly less enduring. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
• And so she shuddered away from the threat of his enduring love. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• Such a penance as I have been enduring, while you were sitting here so composed and so happy! Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
• But how far was he making this a permanent and enduring union? H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The most enduring of all--steady unaltering eyes like Planets--signified wood, such as hazel-branches, thorn-faggots, and stout billets. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
• Side by side with the Museum, Ptolemy I created a more enduring monument to himself in the great library. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But no enduring hope of recovery. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• For the peace and the bliss in their hearts was enduring. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
• Those which were fortunately preserved and transferred to more enduring forms now constitute the greater part of all we have of the writings of those departed ages. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Then to patriotic zeal, to the arts, to reputation, to enduring fame, to the name of country, we had bidden farewell. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• At this moment the moon veiled her face discreetly behind a wandering cloud, and their lips met in a kiss—a kiss of pure and enduring love. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
• The colours looked grayer--more enduring, not so gay and pretty. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
• The enduring value of these books lies in the clear idea they give us of the quality and limitations of the ruling minds of this age. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Later on a recrudescence of Mongolian energy in Western Asia was destined to create a still more enduring monarchy in India. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• This means, in the second place, that this enduring adjustment supplies the background upon which are made specific adjustments, as occasion arises. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
• I would rather not have anything left to me if I must earn it by enduring much of my uncle's cough and his ugly relations. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
• Machinery came to the front quite rapidly after 1825, at which time cloth had been introduced as cheaper than leather, and as cheap and a more enduring binder than paper. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• It's beyond human enduring--that's all. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
• Her power, which was linked to few of the enduring emotions of his heart, had greatly decayed. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• All of enduring wealth that the present gets from the past are its ideas reduced to a working basis. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.

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