O perdurable shame, let's stab our selues: Be these the wretches that we plaid at dice for?
I haue profest me thy Friend, and I confesse me knit to thy deseruing, with Cables of perdurable toughnesse.
And this seems to be the nobler and the more perdurable relation.
But otherwise the grotesque man in literature is immortal, and with something more significant than the immortality awarded to him in the sayings of rhetoric; he is perdurable because he is not completed.
Also furthermore I found, of perdurable letters wonderly there graven, these maters whiche I shal nempne.
Trewly, I leve, in myn herte is writte, of perdurable letters, al the entencions of lamentacion that now ben y-nempned!
So shal the cronique of thy pacience Among the saynts be take in-to memorie 370 To the loenge of perdurable glorie.
This is the meaning in the reference to the eternal throne ("perdurable chayer") of God.
The leases, if we choose to call them so, the gifts, if we choose to call them so, have created heritable rights and perdurable relationships.
For which thou mayst nat drede, by no manere, that alle the thinges that ben anywhere, that they ne requeren naturelly the ferme 135 stablenesse of perdurable dwellinge, and eek the eschuinge of destruccioun.
And thus maketh Love entrechaungeable the perdurable courses; and thus is discordable bataile y-put out of the contree of the sterres.
The old world held the secret; and he would accept this solitary and perdurable column as the symbol of that secret.
It had been romantic to snatch her on a dying cadence of Verlaine out of the opalescent vistas of October trees; but his perdurable love for her rested on these immemorial affections whose history they shared.
They were not fossils, but perdurable images of stone.
St Michael slew Lucifer with a perdurable death,—and he and his legions were cast out of heaven by force, and thrown into hell.
For certes, in the werkinge of the deedly sinne, ther is no trust to no good werk that we han doon biforn; that is to seyn, as for to have therby the lyf perdurable in hevene.
The othere gode werkes, that he wroghte whyl he lay in deedly sinne, they been outrely dede as to the lyf perdurable in hevene.
But nathelees, the gode werkes quiken agayn, and comen agayn, and helpen, and availlen to have the lyf perdurable in hevene, whan we han contricion.
