" "You ought to study to make yourself tolerable to your sister, dear, and agreeable to the other fellows' sisters.

And this is no further tolerable than where a man goes to explain his terms to one who is supposed or declares himself not to understand him; and then it teaches only the signification of that word, and the use of that sign. 8.

From that moment Lloyd George saw the necessity of admitting Germany into the League of Nations at once, and proposed a scheme of treaty containing conditions which, while very severe, were in part tolerable for the German people.

Yet this is more tolerable in youth, and such as are still in their hot blood; but for an old fool to dote, to see an old lecher, what more odious, what can be more absurd?

He was at first employed in the cultivation of tobacco; but his humane master perceiving that he could not bear the fatigue, rendered his situation more tolerable by charging him with the care of his cattle.

His health is tolerable at present, though beset with temptations.

He tells you that Candide Found life most tolerable after meals.

Slavery more tolerable amongst the antients than in our colonies.

Lie Never Tolerable as Means of Concealing.

The climate of Bombay is healthier than that of Calcutta; even the heat is more tolerable on account of the continual sea-breezes, although Bombay lies five degrees further south.

Shelley frequently dwells upon self-contempt as one of the least tolerable of human distresses.

There must be a great indifference as to religion on both sides, to make so strict a union as marriage tolerable between people of such distinct persuasions.

Slavery more tolerable under Pagans and Turks than in the colonies.