enure
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He says: I like your late Englishe Hexameters so exceedingly well, that I also enure my penne sometimes in that kinde….
From The Function of the Poet and Other Essays by James Russell Lowell
Every reservation for the benefit of British subjects should enure for the benefit of subjects of other powers.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
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
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 Charles Campbell
Not that they durst without his leave attempt, But us he sends upon his high behests For state, as Sovran King, and to enure Our prompt obedience.
From The Poetical Works of John Milton by John Milton
For, enured to the cold, the husky knows no winter shelter and needs none, sleeping curled, nose in bushy tail, in a hole dug in the snow, through the bitter nights without frost bite.
From The Whelps of the Wolf by George P. Marsh
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
R. was six feet and well proportioned—brawny and enured to toil; B. was smaller and of a more delicate constitution.
From Memoirs of Orange Jacobs by Orange Jacobs
For the sake of distinguishing actions, he made a total difference between right and wrong, and enured these sentient creatures to pleasure and pain, cold and heat, and other opposite pairs.
From The Christian Foundation, Or, Scientific and Religious Journal, February, 1880 by Aaron Walker
Gouvion-Saint-Cyr enured the army at the beginning of the Revolution, and passing rapidly through the lower grades, became a general of brigade at twenty-nine, and a general of division at thirty.
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
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
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