John would have preferred to put up with the discomfort of his present quarters and lay by the addition to his salary towards the more speedy realization of his day-dream, but John Randolph had never found much time to think of himself; there were always so many other people in the world to be attended to.

Circumstances, however, do not often allow of the attainment of that ideal, and we must put up with the next best systemone in which the scholar takes a good deal on trust from a teacher, who, knowing the facts by his own knowledge, can describe them with so much vividness as to enable his audience to form competent ideas concerning them.

Well, anyway, I could not put up with the way they live, and I just ran away.

The kindness, also, and the courtesy of the untutored savage, as he warmly expressed his pleasure at receiving him into has wigwam, were so engaging, that the young traveler would cheerfully have put up with worse accommodation.

"Lulu the dove," she then surprisingly said, "to put up with you.

Do you think I'm going to put up with it, what?

"In an ordinary way, I suppose, a man can put up with having his bowling hit a little.

take up with, take in good part; accept, tolerate; consent &c 762; acquiesce, assent &c 488; be reconciled to, make one's peace with; get over it; take heart, take comfort; put up with &c (bear)

In other words, the man who is insulted remainsin the eyes of all honorable peoplewhat the man who uttered the insulteven though he were the greatest wretch on earthwas pleased to call him; for he has put up with the insultthe technical term, I believe.

He was now told that the gun had been stolen by a native of Tiarabou, and therefore Otoo was unable to get it back, so after a little discussion he decided to put up with the loss, and sent word to the king that he would say no more about it.

The inhabitants of St. Remy were bound to receive them gratuitously, and to supply them, as well as their horses and dogs, with what they required, to have a mass said for them, to put up with all the absurd vagaries of the captain and his troop, and to supply them with a fine and handsome horned ram, which was led back in triumph.

We won't put up with being swindled like that.

Black country magnates have discovered they can now do without many solid silver services, and even fairly well-to-do rural people find they can at a pinch put up with electro plate.

Thus he again elevates himself with regard to the whole, and in his lofty repose he can well afford to put up with a little in particulars.

I might put up with it if I felt that it sprung from a genuine affection, but if I felt it was done from a sense of duty, it would be an intolerable addition to my troubles.

But feeling that you could not take a better way of telling me that you mean to keep me prisoner forever than by demanding of me what is impossible on my part, I have made up my mind to put up with imprisonment, being sure that God, who knows that I have not deserved a long one, being a prisoner of fair war, will give me strength to bear it patiently.

Then came the whole list of misdemeanors which Mrs. Markham thought "perfectly ridiculous," asking her son how he "could put up with such work.

It's not thought manners here, and what's more, we won't put up with it.

It was quite a marvel to him how she helped him to dress her, laughing merrily at the strange mistakes he made in putting on her clothes the wrong side before; and when he assured her that her mother would come back very soon, she seemed satisfied to put up with any passing inconvenience.

Rose may be trying sometimes, but I can put up with her.

FROM AN ANXIOUS MOTHER PHYLLIS TO THRASONIDES If you only would put up with the country and be sensible, and do as the rest of us do, my dear Thrasonides, you would offer ivy and laurel and myrtle and flowers to the gods at the proper time; and to us, your parents, you would give wheat and wine and a milk-pail full of the new goat's-milk.

Warlike and intelligent, and with a full share of self-esteem, they were not a race likely to put up with such an indignity.

Bullets are much easier to put up with and keep a civil tongue in one's head.

"She may be ready to put up with it for your sake.

"That I don't know how you are to put up with a pink-eyed parson, and a hum-drum life," said Julius, holding out a caressing hand.