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Nevertheless, she was forbearing if not loving, and the people said rightly when they said she was admirable.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 098, February, 1876 by Various

She could hear Dunham moving about in his room, and knew that he was forbearing on Sylvia's account from the whistling obligato which usually accompanied his toilet.

From The Opened Shutters by Burnham, Clara Louise

I grasped it and pressed it hard—the first I had touched in sentiment for many a day; and I was loth to let it go, but he was forbearing.

From Bolanyo by Read, Opie Percival

I have proof of them, undoubted, conclusive, and had at the time they were first made! but you had been cherished beneath my roof, had broken of my bread, and I was forbearing!

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 2 August 1848 by Various

I never was forbearing with a debtor, that I didn't get chiselled this way.

From Round the Block by Bouton, John Bell