131 examples of endurable in sentences

I changed that opinion with a sense of relief, which was more warm even than the pleasure of the present moment; for having made one such mistake, how could I tell that there were not more discoveries awaiting me, that life might not prove more endurable, might not rise to something grander and more powerful?

The only ones to obtain an endurable death, considering the sufferings round about, were such as killed one another or themselves before any calamity befell them.

Turning with restless eagerness from the agony, which even the sudden shock that rendered me half insensible could not deaden into endurable pain, to the passion of revenge, I led two or three of our party to the foot of the ladder beneath the entrance window of my vessel, and was about in their presence to explain his fate more fully to the struggling, howling victim, half mad with protracted terror.

He decided that his self-imposed task was at least endurable.

For myself, I would rather incur the contempt of connoisseurs than my own; the repreach of defective taste is more endurable than the reproach of insincerity.

Moreover, the strong individuality of the artist will create special modifications of the laws to suit himself, making that excellent or endurable which in other hands would be intolerable.

"Do you know," she said, "that you are making life much more endurable for me?" "You should never believe it unendurable," he told her firmly.

It resulted at last in an Edict of Toleration (1787), which made the position of the Protestants endurable, though it excluded them from certain careers.

Anything was more endurable than to stand silent and motionless and hear that screaming call lose itself in the grimly unanswering distance.

The serpents that lie in wait for their prey are endurable; for we know that it is their nature to be cunning and relentless: but to see men of intellect and education sly and snaky, ferocious, yet servile to the utmost, makes one almost believe in total depravity.

Having been accustomed to the comforts afforded in large institutions, and to receiving attentions from the most aristocratic families of Prussia, the monotonous life that we led was only endurable to her so long as the novelty lasted.

That involves the least endurable liberty.

Tranquility of mind has returned to our solitary; now, his reveries are more pleasant and less prolonged; his walks through the woods, his moments of repose during the heat of the day seem more endurable since something, besides his shadow, keeps him company; he has resumed his taste for labor since there is somebody to look at him; speech has returned to him since somebody replies to his voice.

Whatever may have been said by those who, in the pride of a deceitful philosophy, have wished to glorify the power of the solitary manif the latter, supported by certain fortunate circumstances, can remain some time in a state hardly endurable, it is not by his own strength, but by means which society itself has furnished.

Had there been any relaxation, any pause, any increase or any diminution of rapidity in the footsteps, they would have been endurable; but there was no such thing; the same deadening monotonous, stupifying sound continued, like clock-work, to operate incessantly above their heads.

As for Grimshaw, he didn't know that she existed, beyond the fact that she was there and that she made material existence endurable.

It would have been somehowmore endurable.

Day by day she rose to perform the same monotonous duties, sustained by no lofty aim, cheered by neither friendship nor affection; for she could not teach herself to feel anything warmer than toleration for her daily companion, Mrs. Tadmanonly working laboriously because existence was more endurable to her when she was busy than when she was idle.

A heavy shower the morning we reached the alkali plains made the trip through that region, where travelers suffer so much, quite endurable.

Walled cities were no longer endurable, and walled and limited possibilities were equally obsolete.

" Honora wrote the same day and to her quiet report of improved nights and endurable days she added: "I hope you will answer my cousin's letter.

Do we not need, as well as wish for, a new?" "A man may doubtless so abuse and deprave his powers, that old healthy food ceases to be endurable, and yields to him no nutrition; of course he must perish," answered Bart.

"Again, to how many a lonely woman is not life made endurable, even pleasant, by the possession and the love of a devoted dog!

And although the torture was greater, yet was it more endurable than that she had been suffering before.

Were it not, indeed, for such contrivances, the upper parts of theatres and some other buildings would scarcely be endurable; but a mere aperture, though it allows the foul air to escape, in consequence of its specific lightness, is also apt to admit a counter-current of denser and cold air, which pours down into the room, and produces great inconvenience.

131 examples of  endurable  in sentences