"Bearable" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... immense quantity of MS. in cipher—a cipher which is evidently identical with that he used himself in the annotations he put under innumerable sketches he was allowed to make during his long period of confinement, which (through her interest, and no doubt through his own good conduct) was rendered as bearable to him as possible. These sketches (which are very extraordinary) and her Grace's MS. are now in ...
— Peter Ibbetson • George du Marier et al
... In spite of his hopeful words to Nance, he feared the brave lad was gone. And it might have swallowed Nance. And if it had—it might as well have him, too. For it was only thought of Nance that made life bearable to him. ...
— A Maid of the Silver Sea • John Oxenham
... it dies down at intervals, and becomes quite bearable, especially when no one see it ...
— The Laurel Bush • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik
... me to our knoll. We can get a view from there and in our battery it is still bearable," said ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... Blount, blinking dizzily, and with his head bandaged and throbbing as if the premier company of all the African tom-tom symphonists were making free with it, was letting Mrs. Honoria beat up his pillows and prop him with them, so that the drum-beating clamor might be minimized to some bearable degree. ...
— The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush • Francis Lynde
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