1 She was too exhausted and weak from fright to tolerate weakness in anyone else.
2 Of all the heterogeneous mass of people who had poured into Atlanta, the army people alone she refused to receive or tolerate.
3 There are some things that the Southern white man will not tolerate, and the obscene intimations of the foregoing have brought the writer to the very outermost limit of public patience.
4 Three times now the agent had warned him that he would not tolerate another delay.
5 Just when his mother was beginning to tolerate one scheme he had introduced another still bitterer than the first, and the combination was more than she could bear.
Return of the Native By Thomas HardyContext Highlight In BOOK 3: 4 An Hour of Bliss and Many Hours of Sadness 6 I am perfectly satisfied with your company if you will tolerate mine.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 4. Sir Henry Baskerville 7 Unnecessary clutter was something they could not tolerate, especially if it was dirty.
8 could not tolerate any impediment to his efforts where his trial was concerned, and these impediments were probably caused by the lawyer himself.
The Trial By Franz KafkaContext Highlight In Chapter Seven Lawyer - Manufacturer - Painter 9 Edgar must shake off his antipathy, and tolerate him, at least.
10 Sometimes, she would coldly tolerate me; sometimes, she would condescend to me; sometimes, she would be quite familiar with me; sometimes, she would tell me energetically that she hated me.
11 If you only knew the problem I have to face, and that I am working out, you would pity, and tolerate, and pardon me.
12 His bedroom was tolerably large, and rather difficult to warm in bad weather.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 1: CHAPTER VI—WHO GUARDED HIS HOUSE FOR HIM 13 It was warm there, and he found a tolerably good bed of straw.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER I—THE EVENING OF A DAY OF WALKING 14 At that moment there came a tolerably violent knock on the door.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER II—PRUDENCE COUNSELLED TO WISDOM. 15 The garden was enclosed by a tolerably low white wall, easy to climb.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 2: CHAPTER X—THE MAN AROUSED