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 Spenser, Edmund
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 Milton, John
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 Lowell, James Russell
Covt. to suffer recovery to enure as to Findon Manor, etc. 90b.
From Mrs. Shelley by Rossetti, Lucy Madox Brown
The reservations made by these States enure, as a matter of course, to the benefit of all the States, as they were all to go into the new Union, on precisely the same footing.
From Memoirs of Service Afloat, During the War Between the States by Semmes, Raphael
There is Marpesia, through her fruitfulness, inexhaustible of men, and men through her barrenness not only enured to hardship, but in your arms.
From The Commonwealth of Oceana by Harrington, James
So much are men enured in their miserable estate, that no condition is so poore, but they will accept; so they may continue in the same.
From Why Worry? by Walton, George Lincoln
Dumouriez, with a weak and ailing constitution in his childhood, enured his body for war.
From History of the Girondists, Volume I Personal Memoirs of the Patriots of the French Revolution by Ryde, H. T.
He seemed quite isolated but he had become sufficiently enured to danger and though he kept a wary eye, he was not nervous.
From Frontier Boys on the Coast or in the Pirate's Power by Roosevelt, Wyn
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 Walker, Aaron
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 Lea, Henry Charles
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 Holmes, Oliver Wendell
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