The exercise of a little philosophy will reconcile him to the exigencies of the case, and renderendurable here what would be inadmissible at home.
This is quite endurable even to foreigners in a climate where the temperature seldom falls below 60° Fahr.
For this reason, his Iago was the only endurableone which I remember to have seen.
Therefore the Prince of Wales must be the very Marplot or L'Etourdi of princes, if he cannot contrive to make himself endurable to a people who will bear so much rather than be at the trouble of a change.
Manning's face without seeing that his is one of those sensitive, spiritual, I had almost said morbid natures, which can find no endurable existence without a close and constant communion with the supernatural.
The position would be endurable for a few minutes.
Already he was suffering intense pain; he gained momentary relief for his feet by drawing up his legs, a movement which brought his whole weight upon his neck; but that was endurable only for a few seconds.
If ever trunks areendurable it is when, as in Venice, one glides away with them in a gondola over summer seas.
Her sister Amelia was paramount in her own house, ruling indeed with a moderate, endurable dominion, and ruling much to her husband's advantage.
A hundred a year in the doctor's modest household would make all the difference between plenty and want, between modest plenty and endurable want.
She greeted my entrance with an effusive smile; and the sweetest smiles of some people one meets are less endurable than their black looks.
None of the colonists did any work, but all spent their time lounging about and visiting each other, trying to make their dull existence endurable by perpetual smoking and tea and rum drinking.
The chief regret was, that the two friends would miss the constant intercourse with which they had flattered themselves--the only thing that made London endurable to poor Emma.
Blas explained to the sentry on duty at the old Moorish gateway, that we were only bound on pleasure, sounded almost satirical--as some one has said, life would be endurable but for its pleasures.
However, for Tyre and Sidon it will be more endurable at the Judgement than for you.
I tell you that it will be more endurable for Sodom on the great day than for that town.
Any other vice is more endurable in a preacher than these two, though none is compatible with goodness, blamelessness and perfection being required in the ministry according to Paul, Titus 1, 7.
While in such case no perfect purity can be claimed to exist, the situation can be made endurable if discretion is used and trouble is taken to explain.
The burden of life became still less endurable face to face with the existence of evil and with the wretchedness of our social arrangements.
At this time he claims that earthly life is a punishment or a probation; but that it lies in man's power to make it endurable by freeing himself from the social restraints.
Marseilles, but become less endurable every twenty-four hours of the fortnight to Bombay.
The climate is magnificent; the great summer heat is rendered endurable by the cooling winds from the Gulf of Mexico, while the winter has no long lasting rain, and a very slight frost is only felt rarely, just before daybreak.
His servility was less endurable than his insolence.
If I can make your position more endurable by going away, I will leave Paris to-morrow.
If he persists, he will in a few days, or at the longest in a few weeks, find his condition as to bodily pain endurable if nothing more.
A fortnight's time should effect this without serious suffering, or any thing more than the slight irritation and some other inconveniences that will be found quite endurable to one who is in earnest in his purpose.
They belonged to the class that sit on the park benches during the endurable days and sleep upon them during the summer nights.
All he cared for was to have it endurableenough to allow for pretension and congratulation afterward.
The theatres were stale, and only endurable on account of the little suppers afterwards; and really there wasn't much in life except the women who made it agreeable.
Morgan says that even the New England summer isendurable when you learn to dress warmly enough.
But Minucius, who, in consequence of his success and the favour of the populace, was scarcely endurable before now especially, unrestrained by shame or moderation, boasted not more in having conquered Hannibal than Quintus Fabius.
But his better sense questioned, "Will it be any more endurable when I have ruined my nerves and the coats of my stomach?
Men never seem to learn that women, as a rule, cannot find life endurable in the atmosphere of dust and disorder which characterizes bachelor housekeeping, and which seldom disturbs the equanimity of the masculine mind in the least.
As to France, we sought to bring about an endurable state of affairs.
It is not an unbearably unpleasant complexion when it keeps to itself, but when it comes into competition with masses of brown and black the fact is betrayed that it is endurable only because we are used to it.
They were boiling over with youth and spirits, and they had to make the intervals of idleness endurable in some way; and as a rule, they did it by contriving practical jokes and playing them upon each other.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "endurable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: acceptable; light; supportable; tolerable
