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sufferance
1. passport - that he was there only under sufferance
2. The sufferance in our hearts will remain!
3. They’ll feel better about it as well, since they’ll have their own homes, and so will feel less like they’re living on our sufferance
4. And it will not be without sufferance
5. As for my people paying royal taxes and tolls to King Charles, he better forget that! In case that he didn’t understand this yet, he and the other nobles that have been abusing their powers and mismanaging their fiefs around Europe will from now on keep their seats only at our sufferance
6. endured all without flinching, till emboldened by my sufferance and
7. They seemed to realize that they were there only on sufferance, and their demeanour was shamefaced and humble
8. It was now for more than the middle span of our allotted years that he had passed through the thousand vicissitudes of existence and, being of a wary ascendancy and self a man of rare forecast, he had enjoined his heart to repress all motions of a rising choler and, by intercepting them with the readiest precaution, foster within his breast that plenitude of sufferance which base minds jeer at, rash judgers scorn and all find tolerable and but tolerable
9. No, she could not let relation, living on charity bread and sufferance! Oh, never that! them live out their lives in their aunts’ homes as poor relations
10. He must, of course, be made to understand that this extraordinary mercy will not come again, and he lives on the sufferance of the Archivist and Curators
11. Some of the scoffed-at did, nevertheless, penetrate thither on sufferance
12. Especially inasmuch as he and Karyl were here on sufferance, not yet guaranteed so much as a roof over their heads for the night
13. Neither were they rich in worldly goods, holding the land by sufferance while they lived; and there often the sheriff came in vain to collect the taxes, and "attached a chip," for form's sake, as I have read in his accounts, there being nothing else that he could lay his hands on
14. Every man, whether he lives according to the doctrine of Jesus or according to the doctrine of the world, lives only by the sufferance and care of others
15. They have already felt the weight of our arms; they know they hold the very soil on which they live as tenants at sufferance
16. But I may ask, what on the ocean did we enjoy but by the sufferance of Great Britain? What insults, what injuries had we not suffered? When did they begin; when, though they may have been varied in character, were they relaxed in degree, and when were they probably to cease?
17. When caste and caprice usurp the place of justice and humanity, every man will thenceforth hold life, liberty and property by sufferance of the mob