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The very beginning of the Work was due entirely to one of his most daring decisions, for it may well be doubted whether any attempt, under the leadership of a foreigner, would have been tolerated at that time.
In truth the plans of Henry Decherd himself, quasi guest at the Big House, guest tolerated, guest under suspicion, were at that time of a nature singularly intricate, and demanding all his skill and resources. It was certain that Decherd did not disappear with Miss Lady so much was left to comfort Colonel Calvin Blount.
And no one undeceived him not even the Yukoners, who smoked pipes and black cigars and chewed tobacco on Frederick's broad verandas until he felt like an intruder in his own house. There was no touch with them. They regarded him as a stranger to be tolerated. They came to see Tom. And their manner of seeing him was provocative of innocent envy pangs to Frederick. Day after day he watched them.
The existence of a party, animated by such sentiments, powerful in numbers and organisation, and in the station of some who more or less openly join it owning a qualified allegiance to the constitution of the province professing to regard the Parliament and the Government as nuisances to be tolerated within certain limits only raising itself whenever the fancy seizes it, or the crisis in its judgment demands it, into an 'imperium in imperio, renders it, I fear, extremely doubtful whether the functions of Legislation or of Government can be carried on to advantage in this city.
Every language has its anomalies, which though inconvenient, and in themselves once unnecessary, must be tolerated among the imperfections of human things, and which require only to be registered, that they may not be increased; and ascertained, that they may not be confounded: but every language has likewise its improprieties and absurdities, which it is the duty of the lexicographer to correct or proscribe.
Can it be imagined that Chang Hsun is actuated by a patriotic motive? Surely despotism is no longer tolerated in this stage of modern civilization. Such a scheme can only provoke universal opposition.
"Carol! That sounds malicious, and malice isn't tolerated here for a minute. Now, oh, Fairy, did you remember to dust the back of the dresser in our bedroom?" "Mercy! What in the world do you want the back of the dresser dusted for? Do you expect the Ladies to look right through it?" "No, but some one might drop something behind it, and it would have to be pulled out and they would all see it.
Tudor's simile of the building of a sea-wall. "We are strengthening it every day," she wrote. "In a few more weeks it ought to be proof against any ordinary tide." A few more weeks! Mrs. Lorimer wrung her hands. Stephen did not know, did not realize; and she was powerless to convince him. Avery would not convince him either. He tolerated only Avery because she was so useful.
Liberty of religion, or of conscience, as they call it, ought never to be tolerated." This was the cant with which Viglius was ever ready to feed not only his faithful Hopper, but all the world beside.
In Georgia and North Carolina the murder of a slave is tolerated and justified by law, provided that in the opinion of the court he died "of moderate correction!" In South Carolina the following clause of a law enacted in 1740 is still in force:
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