But that army speedily made a final retreat to the left bank of the Rhine; nor was the effect of their campaign more durable than their trophy.

From things my parents chiefly taught me my first lessons, and they have been as durable as life.

It looked so clean, strong and durable in its native genuineness.

This latter mode was called encaustic, and was, according to Plutarch, the most durable of all methods.

The former are a considerable article of the people's diet, and the shells are allowed to accumulate, as they are used in the composition of which their huts are built, and which is a sort of combination of mud and broken oyster shells, which forms an agglomeration of a kind very solid and durable for such building purposes.