outstand

Updated: May 13, 2025

I do not believe it can die even then! I think it is a part of my soul, and will outstand all time." She hesitated as if devising words to express herself with even more sweet abandon. There was a certain loving recklessness in what she uttered now: "Not care? I wish you, too, would understand! Perhaps it is because we care in such different ways. I don't know, but to me it has been all!

Stanley Waterloo - A Man and a Woman

"But I'm so young... life's so long. What does last, then?" "Ah, you're too young to believe me, if I were to tell you; though you're intelligent enough to understand." "What does, then?" "Why, the hold of the things we all think we could do without. Habits they outstand the Pyramids.

Edith Wharton - The Glimpses of the Moon

The snow still lay a foot thick over the ground, thawing a little in sunny spots; the trees quite bare and brown, the buds even of the early maples hardly showing colour; the blessed evergreens alone doing their utmost to redeem the waste, and speaking of patience and fortitude that can brave the blast and outstand the long waiting, and cheerfully bide the time when "the winter shall be over and gone."

Susan Warner - Queechy, Volume I

Would the foundations of the house outstand it? Were they as strong as the walls of Babylon, yet if the water undermined them, down they must! Did the laird know that the enemy was within his gates? Not with all he had that day seen and gone through, had Gibbie until now gathered any notion of the force of rushing water. Rousing himself from his bewildered amazement, he darted down the hill.

George MacDonald - Sir Gibbie

These and other features in the picture become so fearful to contemplate, that she resolves to embrace the first opportunity to escape so awful a dilemma. She will engage herself as soon as practicable, lest she should outstand her day, and be left in the dread condition of an "old maid." Hence a train of miseries.

A. B. (Artemas Bowers) Muzzey - The Young Maiden

The snow still lay a foot thick over the ground, thawing a little in sunny spots; the trees quite bare and brown, the buds even of the early maples hardly shewing colour; the blessed evergreens alone doing their utmost to redeem the waste, and speaking of patience and fortitude that can brave the blast and outstand the long waiting and cheerfully bide the time when "the winter shall be over and gone."

Susan Warner - Queechy

The only class of human beings whom he cannot well comprehend, are those who are sincerely attached to an opinion, whatever be the consequences of it: such persons Bonaparte looks upon as boobies, or as traders who outstand their market, that is to say, who would sell themselves too dear.

Madame de (Anne-Louise-Germaine) Staël - Ten Years' Exile: Memoirs of That Interesting Period of the Life of the Baroness De Stael-Holstein, Written by Herself, during the Years 1810, 1811, 1812, and 1813, and Now First Published from the Original Manuscript, by Her Son.