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He drew parallels between the optimism that fed the Revolution in 1979 and the hopes that had soared for reform—the triumphs of both events incomplete and unenduring.
Let the Swords Encircle Me Scott Peterson 2010
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This, perhaps, was of the less moment as his anger was of an unenduring kind, evaporating frequently with more celerity than he could get angry words out of his mouth.
Doctor Thorne 2004
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She was a dark, unenduring little flower — yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things.
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With the exception of two, which occurred when he was only seventeen, and of his final one -- as far as we are informed -- with General Carascosa, fought in England, in 1823, these single combats were invariably with foreigners, with whom the general seems to have been very unenduring.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various
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Now justice and injustice are about certain actions and passions, which are unenduring and transitory.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province Aquinas Thomas
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He who abstains from all acts, who is free from desire or cupidity, who looks upon the universe as unenduring or as like an
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Stone houses should be made of stone, and if made of wood or iron or plaster, they are nothing but shams, unenduring and unsatisfactory.
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The second stanza invokes the Muse, -- "Not thou whose brow was wreathed with the unenduring bays of Helicon, but thou who in angelic choirs hast a golden crown set with immortal stars, -- do thou breathe celestial ardor into the poet's heart!"
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 34, August, 1860 Various
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She was a dark, unenduring little flower -- yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things.
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The long delay, coupled with fears lest that the Peace Treaty, when it does come, should prove to be a peace unworthy, unsatisfactory, unenduring, has made the hearts of the people sick.
The Inside Story of the Peace Conference Emile Joseph Dillon 1894
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