enure
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Scarce this right hand the mouth with diet feedeth; So that it may no painfull worke endure, 275 Ne to strong labour can it selfe enure.
From The Poetical Works of Edmund Spenser, Volume 5 by Edmund Spenser
I like your late Englishe Hexameters so exceedingly well, that I also enure my penne sometimes in that kinde….
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 by Various
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
The object of the practice was to enure the men to work, not only when fresh, but when tired.
From The Story of the 2/4th Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry by Geoffrey Keith Rose
But he learns to make allowances for you, and comes to view your failings charitably, especially as they enure to his benefit, and so lean to Virtue's side.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 by Various
But both were sea-risks of the class to which our seamen were enured.
From Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. by Julian S. (Julian Stafford) Corbett
Their loss, however, was such, that the advantages of the field enured to the Americans.
From The Life of Francis Marion by William Gilmore Simms
Our constant life out of doors had enured us to hardships and made us impervious to fatigue.
From The Frontier Boys in the Grand Canyon A Search for Treasure by Wyn Roosevelt
With none of these changes had Disraeli’s personal action much to do, but they all enured to the benefit of his party, they all swelled the tide which bore him into office in 1874.
From Studies in Contemporary Biography by James Bryce, Viscount Bryce
The tender solicitude of her mother, her childlike grief, and her firm belief in the real guiltlessness of her daughter, touched even the custodians of the Tombs who are enured to scenes of pathos.
From The Gilded Age, Part 6. by Charles Dudley Warner
It became established law that an action of debt would only lie upon a consideration actually received by and enuring to the benefit of the debtor.
From The Common Law by Oliver Wendell Holmes
For minor offences the bishops were empowered to imprison during pleasure and fine at discretion—the fine enuring to the royal exchequer.
From A History of The Inquisition of The Middle Ages; volume I by Henry Charles Lea
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