fortitude

• Notwithstanding his stern old nurse's fortitude, there was no mistaking the look of relief in her worn face when that day arrived. —  Under the Rebel's Reign
• They are both tough undertakings, requiring sound legs and lungs, with a happy and powerful combination of patience, fortitude, and energy The difficulty of ascending to the Bręche-de-Roland does not consist so much in its height--though this is 9537 feet--as in the nature of the ground to be surmounted; and after I had accomplished the feat, I no longer wondered that several persons had given in, and retraced their steps without attaining the Bręche. —  Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 456 Volume 18, New Series, September 25, 1852
• He had lived so long in the East that he gained not a little of that Eastern fortitude which is the fortitude of fatalism. —  A History of the Four Georges and of William IV, Volume III (of 4)
• Now she endeavoured to brace her mind to fortitude, and to ask herself what was to be her employment in her dreary cell? —  Posthumous Works of the Author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
• Could they have had the fortitude, the decision, the power, to venture on a dreary pilgrimage of eighteen months, the time mentioned by Esdras as the period of their journey? —  Diary in America, Series Two

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