Under a white officer you would see a chain of some two hundred donkeys, each roped in file of four, led by an Egyptian who knew all that was worth knowing about the ways of the ass, winding their way up and down hills, getting a foothold on rocks where no other animal but a goat could stand, and surmounting all obstacles with a patient endurance which every soldier admired.

He was standing bolt upright with his back to the wind, a tuft of snow piled on his square shoulders, a monument of passive endurance.

If the Romans had less dash and a less wide experience of varied warfare than his followers, they had far more of true, heroic endurance.

You must not conclude from all this that there is any gallantry implied, or any scandal excitedthe return for all these services is only a little flattery, a philosophic endurance of the card-table, and some skill in the disorders of lap-dogs.

That yell had recalled the patient to partial consciousness, and he rolled his blood-shot eyes around him, as if endeavoring to collect his wandering senses; and then his haggard countenance again resumed the expression of imperturbable composure and firm endurance that an Indian warrior thinks it a disgrace to lose, even in the extremity of suffering.

But she infused a true Russian soul into itthe soul that is cursed with a fatal power of dumb and patient endurance.

The time is now drawing near when the Major-General commanding the force trusts that its labours will be over, and it will be rewarded by the capture of the city for all its past exertions, and for a cheerful endurance of still greater fatigue and exposure.

The huge drafts on muscular endurance have, no doubt, something to do with it.

But all fires burn themselves: to extinction; a dull endurance, which she believed had at last become a God-sent indifference, settled on her mind.

It is an employment, however, requiring both art and contrivance, as well as a certain fearlessness of character, combined with the power of considerable physical endurance.

It is a touching thing to see the simple joys of life, in homes like these, crushed into a speechless endurance of penury, and the native spirit of self-reliance writhing in unavoidable prostration, and hoping on from day to day for better times.

"He was brought up in the desert among Bedouins, and has their stoical endurance with a sort of religious patience added.

[102] At Fort William, Calcutta, experiments have proved the extraordinary endurance of the pine-apple fibre.

For this trail there was needed a spirit as much superior to other men in tireless endurance and in speed as Alcatraz was superior to other horses.

Harassed by the struggles of the Jacobins, and alarmed at the symptoms of public weariness and disgust, which became every day more visible, they hoped this feint might operate on the fears of the people of Paris, and animate them to a more decided support against the efforts of the common enemy, as well as tend to reconcile them to a farther endurance of a representation from which they did not disguise their wishes to be released.

Faces that told of young lives which from infancy had been one horrible endurance of cruelty and neglect.

Strong as the labourer may be, thick-set and capable of immense endurance; by slow degrees that strength must wear away.

Eight days, in which there was nothing to break the monotony of torturing, inactive endurance, except the necessity of gathering wood, keeping the fires, and cutting anew the steps which led upward, as the snow increased in depth.

Nothing short of an infinite endurance would be enough, and easy and contented as he was, what could he know of an infinite agony?

The storm was reflected in every gesture, and not one cheerful note, not to say song, came from a single bill; their cowering, joyless endurance offering a striking contrast to the spontaneous, irrepressible gladness of the Ouzel, who could no more help exhaling sweet song than a rose sweet fragrance.

There was no marching to the stake, no deliberate encountering of the mightier risks, no voluntary submission to a lifelong endurance.

A satirical pencil had been engaged in depicting some of the most striking instances of successful manly resistance to female tyranny, of manly contempt for feminine weakness, of manly endurance of woman-inflicted injury.

The struggle in and around the Malakoff was continued till three o'clock, when Gortschakoff withdrew his troops from the work which they had defended with such marvellous endurance for eleven months.

Fortunately, my inheritance of a marvelous endurance enabled me to bend without breaking.

It is a very sound rule that, before you determine to write a tragedy, you should make sure that you have a really tragic theme: that you can place your hero at such odds with life that reconciliation, or mere endurance, would be morally base or psychologically improbable.