8 Metaphors for enduring

I could no more endure to place another before or beside you than I could break the special bond between us, and deny the hope of which the Serpent" (laying my hand on her shoulder-clasp, which, by mere accident, was shaped into a faint resemblance to the mystic coil) "is the emblem; the hope that alone can make such love as ours endurable, or even possible, to creatures that must die.

The most enduring of Addison's works are his famous Essays, collected from the Tatler and Spectator.

And wit, look you, biteth sharper than sword, laughter is more enduring than blows, and he who smiteth, smiteth only for lack of wit.

As a last tribute to his name there was erected in his native state a monument with this inscription: This memorial is dedicated to our fellow townsman, Dorence Atwater, for his patriotism in preserving to this nation the names of 13,000 soldiers who died while prisoners at Andersonville, Ga. He builded better than he knew; some day, perchance, in surprise he may wake to learn: He builded a monument more enduring than brass.

Page 121, l. 11. monumentum, etc.: a monument more enduring than bronze.

" "There's no tie more enduring than friendship," said Dick quickly.

Paternity, stronger and more enduring than love, might have filled the rest of his days had his son not died....

There is a stone coffin lying right across the doorway, and the curé, whom I drew into conversation, confided to me, with a comical smile upon his pale dark face, that he had raised a fragment of the lid to see if anything more enduring than man had been left there, but that he found nothing but very fine dust.

8 Metaphors for  enduring