Example Sentences

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And yet this very modesty, this unambitious way of conceiving his work, has impressed upon it a certain exceptional enduringness.

From English Prose A Series of Related Essays for the Discussion and Practice by Roe, Frederick William

She realized, first of all, the enduringness of the marbles.

From Mae Madden by Mason, Mary Murdoch

In breeding from these for purposes of utility, particular reference has been paid to strength, enduringness, and speed.

From Domestic Animals History and description of the horse, mule, cattle, sheep, swine, poultry and farm dogs; with directions for their management, breeding, crossing, rearing, feeding, and preparation for a profitable market; also their diseases and remedies. Together with full directions for the management of the dairy. by Allen, Richard L.

Before that life was of a reality, a sanity, an enduringness, a beauty.

From Non-combatants and Others by Macaulay, Rose, Dame

His enjoyment was as far inferior to Mercy's in genuineness and enduringness as is the shallow lake to the quenchless spring.

From Mercy Philbrick's Choice by Jackson, Helen Hunt