And it is certaine, without poisoning, euill and distemperate dyet, and vsage, or other such forcible cause, the haires dure with the body.
Pâte dure was far more desirable than pâte tendre, for it was much less breakable.
So on a time he told King Arthur that he should not dure long, but for all his crafts he should be put in the earth quick.
And then when it was past noon, and when it drew toward evensong, Sir Gawaine's strength feebled, and waxed passing faint that unnethes he might dure any longer, and Sir Marhaus was then bigger and bigger.
Ye see, I was standin' at the dure av yer room last night by the marest accidint, an' I happened to overhear a confabulation between you an' Rivers.
And in: On doit le temps ainsi prendre qu'il vient: Tout dit que pas ne dure la fortune.
In that sea of Lybia is no fish; for they may not live ne dure for the great heat of the sun, because that the water is evermore boiling for the great heat.
And shut the dure afther ye, and make yersilves scarce till tea-time, like good childer, do.
Mr Smeddum, as I have related, was in some estimation for his comicality; but he was a dure hand at an argument, and would not see the plainest truth when it was not on his side of the debate.
Me father was an indepindint farmer, wid a bit of land right forninst the dure of the church at Sleeahtballymackcurraghalicky, an' a hundred pounds in a bank in Cork.
Jist tell him to ask the Blissed Lord to open the dure and let him out, an' I'll stake me sowl's salvation on it that the Lord will do it at wanst, and niver ask him for a farm or a hundred pounds in the bank.
An' thin there was the hundred pounds in the bank in Cork, an' the farm forninst the dure of the church in Sleeahtballymackcurraghalicky, d'ye moind?
A dure enclume marteau de plume = The strokes of adversity find the wise man unmoved.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "dure" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
