sufferance

How To Use sufferance In A Sentence

• Consequently, religion remained the chief stuff of politics and the Anglican elite to an important extent ruled on sufferance.
• Ah, but think back and you'll recall they attended on sufferance, danced twice, then left. ON A WILD NIGHT
• The tenant remains in possession, and continues to pay rent as before, and becomes, from sufferance, a tenant from year to year, which can only be terminated by one party or the other giving the necessary six months’ notice to quit at the term corresponding with the commencement of the original tenancy. The Book of Household Management
• Applied also to the nose it cureth the disease called polypus, which by time and sufferance stoppeth the nostrils. Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure
• For sufferance now will be rewarded greatly in the Reconciliation.
• After that the sad and discomfortable night had spent it selfe, and the break of day was beginning to appeare; Ancilla the waiting-woman, according as she was instructed by her Lady, went downe and opened the Court doore, and seeming exceedingly to compassionate the Schollers unfortunate night of sufferance, saide unto him. The Decameron
• The sufferance which is the badge of the Jew has made him in these days the ruler of the rulers of the earth. Four American Leaders
• Bulgaria claims to want foreign investment, but makes residents aliens feel as though they are here on sufferance rather than making an addition to the country's depleted population and being good consumers.
• Whether mutual repugnance might then one day be transformed into mutual sufferance, or even mutual toleration, remains to be seen.
• The inhabitants seem insensible to these impressions, and are apt to imagine the disgust that we avow is little better than affectation; but they ought to have some compassion for strangers, who have not been used to this kind of sufferance; and consider, whether it may not be worth while to take some pains to vindicate themselves from the reproach that, on this account, they bear among their neighbours. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker