endurability

Having no business model — swinging for popularity rather than endurability — is counting on luck rather than skill.

An interview with investor Paul Graham of Y Combinator Marshall Kirkpatrick 2005

One proof of Shakespeare's sturdy endurability is that, in these days when the curriculum has been liberated, teachers and critics and students turn to him by choice.

Shakespeare Bevington, David 2002

As endurability goes, reading the book rises forthwith almost to the level of an afternoon-call where there is gossip about the neighbors and Germany's future.

The Certain Hour James Branch Cabell 1918

As endurability goes, reading the book rises forthwith almost to the level of an afternoon-call where there is gossip about the neighbors and Germany's future.

The Certain Hour 1909

Not only do they bathe every morning in the frozen sea, and stand naked on the beach, inhaling the icy wind, but their endurability, even when at hard work on insufficient food, surpasses all that can be imagined.

Mutual Aid; a factor of evolution Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin 1881

Far from that, it begins questioning Lettres-de-Cachet generally, their legality, endurability; emits dolorous objurgation, petition on petition to have its three Martyrs delivered; cannot, till that be complied with, so much as think of examining the Protestant Edict, but puts it off always 'till this day week.'

The French Revolution Thomas Carlyle 1838