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  • He was born serene, patient, all-enduring, where a friend is concerned, and nothing can extinguish that great quality in him.

    Mark Twain: A Biography 2003

  • Rose did not believe it, and there he stood with that woman's arms about his neck, her pale face upturned to his, the light of a pleading, all-enduring love in her dark eyes.

    Five Thousand Dollars Reward A. Frank [pseud.] Pinkerton

  • Of that all-enduring One -- 'chief among ten thousand and altogether lovely,' for whom there was no thing too small to love, no sin too great to pardon -- she knew nothing.

    Stage Confidences Clara Morris

  • In reading these two chapters, one must muse upon the wilderness trampings and the ocean perils of the keen-set and all-enduring men who furnished the material for these high-seasoned pages.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 18, April, 1859 Various

  • He was dauntless and all-enduring, fruitful in resource, self-controlled and persevering, and, though not wiser than his age, purer and more true.

    The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 Various

  • It is because we men and women will conceal the realities of our lives from one another, and under the banner of an all-enduring pride, struggle for the privilege of living under a surface of smooth, unruffled evenness, that humanity has become susceptible of so many false and misleading interpretations.

    The Doctor's Daughter [pseud.] Vera

  • The mêlée was hot and ferocious, many a patch or darn being put in store for certain patient, all-enduring mothers.

    With Those Who Wait Frances Wilson Huard

  • The influence of Puritanism to inspire with unconquerable principle, to infuse public spirit, to purify the character from frivolity and feebleness, to lift the soul to an all-enduring heroism and to exalt it to

    Woman on the American Frontier William Worthington Fowler

  • It did not seem to belong to him, or to Julia, to their love and future together, or to her gallant, all-enduring past.

    The Story of Julia Page Kathleen Thompson Norris 1923

  • His labor was great, continuous, patient and all-enduring.

    Our American Holidays: Lincoln's Birthday A Comprehensive View of Lincoln as Given in the Most Noteworthy Essays, Orations and Poems, in Fiction and in Lincoln's Own Writings Various 1921

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