Example Sentences

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Charity suffereth long—μακροθυμει—it bears patiently with other men’s   defects of temper, discourteousness of behaviour, and awkwardness of manner; and is kind, gentle, and obliging—χρηστευεται.

From Advice to a Young Man upon First Going to Oxford In Ten Letters, From an Uncle to His Nephew by Berens, Edward