Withstand

Examples

• Human nature could not withstand these bewildering temptations. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Nothing could withstand them in the fever of battle lust which enthralled them. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
• Few have been able to withstand the seeming evidence of this argument; and yet nothing in the world is more easy than to refute it. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
• Dangerous boiler explosions have occurred because the boiler walls were not strong enough to withstand the pressure of the steam (which is water in the form of gas). Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Such a Corsican wretch as that withstand the armies of Europe and the genius of the immortal Wellington! William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• The latter and other acid processes were not successful until cement-lined digesters were invented to withstand their corroding action. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Prior to the century safes were not constructed to withstand the test of intense heat. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• To have resisted such attractions, to have withstood such tenderness! Jane Austen. Sense and Sensibility.
• His regiment had performed prodigies of courage, and had withstood for a while the onset of the whole French army. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
• There was a solemnity--a dignity--in Mr. Pickwick's manner, not to be withstood. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
• It's a withstanding of injustice, past, present, or to come. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.

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