enure
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Ambition becomes an atmosphere; the man whose temperament and self-training enure him to it breathes it at last as though it were his native air.
From Lewis Rand by Johnston, Mary
The erroneous impression prevails among some that the pregnant wife should enure herself to toil and hardship.
From The Physical Life of Woman: Advice to the Maiden, Wife and Mother by Napheys, George H. (George Henry)
France could not fail to understand that the breaking up of the English monopoly of the American trade would enure to her own benefit.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles
Has not Spenser his law-terms: his capias, defeasance, and duresse; his emparlance; his enure, essoyn, and escheat; his folkmote, forestall and gage; his livery and seasin, wage and waif?
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 21, July, 1859 by Various
To enure thyself to what thou art like to be, cast thy humble slough, and appear fresh.
From Twelfth Night or, What You Will by Kemble, J P
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