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What misfortune had happened to mar the Christmas festivities at my uncle's house? And what could the reference to my cousin Alice's sorrows mean? She was not ill. That, I thought, might be taken for granted. My uncle would hardly have referred to her illness as "one of the sorrows she had to endure lately."
I'll be in a fine mess if I have," he grumbled. The ankle gave him considerable trouble; but he rubbed it all of ten minutes, and he found that he could endure his shoe again. He was full of curiosity as well as anxiety to learn the cause of the smoke, which, by this time, seemed to be coming his way in greater volume.
Inventors when they get their first chance are going to save us, because they could not endure living with us unless we were saved. Inventors could not enjoy inventing inventing their greater, more noble inventions, until they had attended to a little rudimentary thing in the world like having people half alive on it to live with and to invent for.
Children show their membership in the species by their love of strict habit. Gissing let them yell for a few moments as long as he thought the neighbours would endure it while he gradually gathered strength and resolution, shook off the cowardice of bed. Then he strode into the nursery. As soon as they heard him raising the shades there was complete silence.
"A sister a sweet gentle sister, who loved me as her own life whom I loved more than my life. Oh! not till we were parted knew I the strength of that love." "How long since you have seen this sister?" "Six months ago, I left her deceived by a villain, I left her. Six years it has seemed! Oh! I cannot endure this savage life.
His own privations he could endure; but not the fear and suffering his presence caused to others. This, and this only, determined him in the first instance. He might also have hoped that if he could reach the neighbourhood of his own home, he would be defended with desperate fidelity. He was aware that Mr.
The big fellow, however, seemed able to endure a lot of punishment. "I didn't come out here to run a race!" Miller insisted, as he tried hard to corner the boy. "Then stand still, and I won't hit you so hard!" mocked Prescott, as he struck the man again on the short ribs. Then, of a sudden, Prescott hit the earth. He had miscalculated, and Miller's left fist had landed on his nose.
This was peculiarly the case in the late war, when more than a million of young men, the flower of our country, left their workshops and farms, their schools and colleges, to endure the hardships of the march and the camp, to risk health, limb and life, that their country might live, expecting nothing, hoping nothing for themselves, but all for their fatherland.
Ratsch had carefully studied Semyon Matveitch's character; his calculations did not lead him astray. 'This man's devotion to me admits of no doubt, for the very reason that after I am gone he will be ruined; my heir cannot endure him.... This idea grew and strengthened in the old man's head.
As before, unconscious in her perturbation that she is doing it, she voices her inmost thoughts audibly, like a somnambulist: "Unloved by him, to behold the unrivalled man ever near, how could I endure the torment?" Brangaene catches the words, and innocently supposes them applied to King Mark.
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