It had aged since she came to Ladysmith, but the lines of endurance seemed to bring out her true character.
Illustration: Chapter XX drop-cap K] Kitty was praised by Mollie that night for herendurance during the trying day.
No, Sir, language cannot do justice to the endurance of our troops under the extreme and terrible privations which circumstances have obliged them to endure.
Her power of endurance would be greater, she thought, if only she could be certain that this theory was true, though her slavery would be just as galling.
This patient endurance might be lauded as an unusual occurrence, were there nothing more--but there is more.
The girl’s feminine nature leads her often to prefer games that require less of strength, enduranceand danger.
The boy’s masculine nature leads him often to prefer games that require strength, endurance and daring.
One has but to study the children of a few excessive users of the weed to be convinced that they do not possess the physical endurance and strength of the fathers.
For there is too much real goodness in the upper world and too much heroism and endurance in the underworld to permit such an evolution to come about.
In the murky light of little rooms filled with thick air child-life has struggled into existence; up and down their narrow stairs patient endurance and passive hopelessness ever pass and repass.
In tiny rooms where darkness is made visible by penny-worths of oil burned in cheap and nasty lamps, there is no lack of pain and suffering, and no lack of patient endurance and passive heroism.
This endurance and patience of London's miserably paid women.
She had the pluck and the endurance to follow him on his long climbs, but being a less exalted mortal, her sense of fitness was unduly strained by the intensity of Verestchagin's devotion to clouds and mountain-tops.
To me they are rather evidence of the strength and endurance of the pacifying forces in human life, and of the sovereignty of the greater unities which draw nations together.
Had this affair taken place in Europe, each actor in the scene would have been immortalised for his endurance and gallantry.
Great past endurance the need, and daily grew the oppression: They were the lords of the day; there was none to hear our complaining.
Man, and man only Can do the impossible He 'tis distinguisheth, Chooseth and judgeth; He to the moment Endurance can lend.
He has that mingling of craft and endurance which has enabled his descendants to use for their own ends those who have wronged and persecuted them.
The children of God are not exempt from any of the common calamities; they are only expected and aided to be calmer and wiser in their endurance and use of them.
He told her something of these latter, for he knew the sea; piteous tales of forlorn wrecks, brave tales of dangers faced and overcome, of heroic endurance and heroic rescue.
A great gaunt man, he was endowed with the strength of the black race and the endurance of the red man.
Stoicism enjoined upon men obedience to the law, endurance of evil conditions, and patience under misfortunes.
As he extinguished the lamp he said to himself; "I wonder how much endurance the man has; and how much he will require to carry him through his troubles.
There is more grit and endurance in him than I expected.
From them were to spring actions that would be marked by endurance and fortitude, where formerly there had been weakness and timidity.
It required a magnificent courage and enormous endurance for a caste man to make such a change.
At last a groan came from the sufferer, as though his endurance were failing.
Let thy heart be devoted to endurance and to duty.
If he draw near, and but touch me with his hand, this accursed life must be destroyed; and then that endurance of it, which I accepted in the hope of again beholding Pundarika, will have been in vain.
They had their foundations in the patriotism and emotion of a people who had just emerged from the crudest ordeal which had ever called to their endurance in history.
It was not in human endurance to bear his contempt.
There was the usual highly-varnished arm-chair, expressly manufactured to test the endurance of the human spine.
Trouble has done much to tame my temper--but endurance has its limits.
You felt it, rather than saw it, in the look of immovable endurance which underlain her expression--in the deathlike tranquillity which never disappeared from her manner.
Will his skill in rowing (as Sir Patrick once put it), his swiftness in running, his admirable capacity and endurance in other physical exercises, help him to win a purely moral victory over his own selfishness and his own cruelty?
Grief and despair almost beyond endurance distorted his face and shook his body with racking sobs.
General Grant and the Duke of Wellington are good examples of the determination and endurance of the Taurus nature.
This quality is the stoical power of endurance which he attributes to his hero, but which in him is combined with nothing either of the austerity or pedantry of Stoicism.
May God give us grace to follow his holy example, his patient endurance of his many trials, the greatest his constant trial of deafness.
But the sight of his patient endurance had the same effect on those who were with him in the ship as Walter Hotaswol's exhortations had had on himself, and several of them began in earnest to prepare for Baptism.
Patteson, however, was accepting whatever was distasteful as wholesome training in theendurance of hardships, and soon felt the benefit he reaped from it.
The same faith, the same patience, the same endurance of suffering.
One may fling a glove in the face of nature and in the face of one's own moral endurancequite innocently, with a simplicity which wears the aspect of perfectly Satanic conceit.
Yet it is so true that the germ of destruction lies in wait for us mortals, even at the very source of our strength, that one may die of too much endurance as well as of too little of it.
The lines of his countenance fell naturally into an expression of mild suffering, of endurancesweetened by benevolence, or, according to the fancy of the interpreter, of gentle, melancholy sweetness.
It was a race between our endurance and his greed, and his greed won, for at last he lay down with the sausage between his paws and we fell on him from behind and captured our own.
Many stories of wreck, suffering, and endurancemight be told, but one will suffice--a true narrative of events.
