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• They saw that those of superior education among them were resigned to the trials they were called on to endure, and were trusting to the support and protection of that great and merciful God whose message of love to man they every day heard read, and who would send them relief in His good time Young as Harry Shafto was, by his firmness and decision he had maintained a strict discipline among the little band, and even the few who might have been disposed to be mutinous never ventured to dispute his authority. —  The Voyages of the Ranger and Crusader And what befell their Passengers and Crews.
• Whatever degree of personal hardship and suffering their female captives were compelled to endure, their persons were never dishonoured by violence; a fact which can be predicated, we apprehend, of no other victorious soldiery that ever lived In regard, moreover, to the countless acts of cruelty alleged to have been perpetrated by the savages, it must still be borne in mind that the Indians have had no writer to relate their own side of the story. —  The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816
• One of those violent paroxysms of hunger suddenly possessed him which while they endure are acute agony. —  Men of Affairs
• Presently comes the news of a brilliant Union victory; and nobody pauses to consider that if our pickets had been asleep, or faithless, or cowardly, a Union defeat might, nay must_, have been the consequence We forget what these men endure--their risks, their privations, their fatigues, their anxieties, their battles with themselves_, when sleep--more insidious than even the lurking enemy in the bush--tugs at their heavy eyelids, and their overwearied senses are barely held to their allegiance by the strongest mental effort. —  Incidents of the War: Humorous, Pathetic, and Descriptive
• Dr Pendle sighed as he thought of the many dull sermons he had been compelled to endure, and wondered why the majority of his educated clergy should fall so far behind the untaught, unconsecrated, rough-mannered missionary From the time of that lecture, Ben Baltic, for all his lowly birth and uncouth ways, became the lion of Beorminster. —  The Bishop's Secret

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