How To Use Long-suffering In A Sentence
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But the poem appears to commend long-suffering endurance and to suggest that mourners may be silently visited by Divine Grace.
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Other characters included two long-suffering frogs called Ernie and Sylve, an heroic tortoise called Lewis Collins and a little white shell called Jim Morrison.
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Magda, his long-suffering wife, was the only person who knew his secret, and she is now dead.
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His long-suffering wife, Nora, faces an everyday struggle to find money for food and other essentials.
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No caustic reproach, no specious arguments against the plan, no long-suffering resignation.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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Just as a crusty maiden aunt confined to a retirement home might continue to lecture her long-suffering relatives by letter, she will still be playing the duenna to an errant world, in writing.
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But it's hardly a name that will have long-suffering fans excited.
The Sun
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The regime sought to overcome the quietism of the middle classes and of the long-suffering peasantry with the propaganda of national greatness.
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No opportunity for zaniness is knowingly passed up, to the exasperation of the long-suffering staff.
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No caustic reproach, no specious arguments against the plan, no long-suffering resignation.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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All good news for long-suffering shareholders.
Times, Sunday Times
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Towers always ensured that his long-suffering but loyal crew were paid.
Times, Sunday Times
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The long-suffering djinni is growing weak and vulnerable from too much time in this world, and his patience is nearing its end.
Ptolemy's Gate: Summary and book reviews of Ptolemy's Gate by Jonathan Stroud.
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It might be the best way for long-suffering shareholders to get a decent return on their investment.
Times, Sunday Times
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a long-suffering and uncomplaining wife
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After numerous false starts, attendance figures hint that long-suffering soccer fans might finally have something to be excited about.
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My long-suffering parents always bail me out financially.
The Sun
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It might also hold clues to the future of the battered, long-suffering transatlantic relationship.
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You're a long-suffering bunch and we bloggers appreciate your patience.
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“The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is long-suffering to usward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
The Gospel Day Or, the Light of Christianity
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In 1951, he finally decided to dump his long-suffering first wife, Mildred, for the newly divorced ex-wife of a congressman.
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More remarkable, it spawned three of the greatest comic creations in television history: namely, the adenoidal and long-suffering Olive, her misogynist husband Arthur, and the incomparable Blakey, with his toothbrush moustache and his catchphrase that still rings down the ages - "I'll get you, Butler!
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Here we are, by God's grace and long-suffering to usward, near the end of another year, another vicious year; and why have we been borne with through so many vicious years but that we should now cease from vice and begin to learn virtue?
Bunyan Characters (3rd Series)
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The long-suffering fans could have been forgiven for thinking they had seen it all before.
The Sun
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Bresson's most sublime and devastating vision, "Au hasard Balthazar" 1966, is a modern-day fable about a long-suffering donkey victimized by his owners' pride, greed, lust and sadism.
Salvation at the Forum
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God endured them with much long-suffering -- exercised a great deal of patience towards them, let them alone to fill up the measure of sin, to grow till they were ripe for ruin, and so they became fitted for destruction, fitted by their own sin and self-hardening.
Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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The long-suffering wife looked up at the magistrate and her reply was terse.
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Then he confronted her and the long-suffering woman laughed.
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Why not offer 10 tickets to entice long-suffering fans to turn up?
Times, Sunday Times
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Verbena quelled him in mid-grumble with a patient, long-suffering gaze, like a mother enduring a weary child's temper tantrum.
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They took over a fish and chip shop, where they mugged and capered while the locals waited long-sufferingly for their grub.
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Our long-suffering mining communities deserve better than this.
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His emergence gives long-suffering fans something to cheer in what feels a bleak time.
Times, Sunday Times
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The medico is a long-suffering person, even in these days of scarcity of properly-qualified men -- the first person called on emergency, and the very last to be paid!
The Seven Secrets
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With spare language taken principally from the translations by Robert Fitzgerald and Robert Fagles, and with intricate pencil and watercolor illustrations, Mr. Hinds re-creates Odysseus 'turbulent voyage across "the wine-dark sea" from the ruins of Troy to the island of Ithaca and his long-suffering wife, Penelope.
Highbrow
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Why does it take so long for the administrators to bring closure to so many long-suffering B&B shareholders?
Times, Sunday Times
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Good on our six-pack for having the guts to support us long-suffering ratepayers.
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The night when long-suffering England fans thought that he had arrived on the international stage proved to be simply a memorable stopover on a continuing journey.
Times, Sunday Times
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All about me were nobleness of purpose and heroism of effort, and my days and nights were sunshine and starshine, all fire and dew, with before my eyes, ever burning and blazing, the Holy Grail, Christ's own Grail, the warm human, long-suffering and maltreated but to be rescued and saved at the last. '
Chapter 5: The Philomaths
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His father was a patient, long-suffering character who was mercilessly hen-pecked.
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And their third defeat in a row brought a chorus of boos from long-suffering home fans.
The Sun
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Meanwhile, Hubie tries to elude his long-suffering wife, whom he all but stands up on their wedding anniversaries and keeps mendaciously promising to whirl about a nightclub dance floor.
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The play looks at his struggle to develop revolutionary ideas as well as his relationship with long-suffering wife Jane.
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And his long-suffering girlfriend has had to grin and bear it.
The Sun
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Having battled so hard to save the club in the last few years, long-suffering fans have a right to be angry about the lack of spirit shown in recent displays.
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Rejecting therefore the good, and as it were spuing it out, they shall all deservedly incur the just judgment of God, which also the Apostle Paul testifies in his Epistle to the Romans, where he says, "But dost thou despise the riches of His goodness, and patience, and long-suffering, being ignorant that the goodness of God leadeth thee to repentance?
ANF01. The Apostolic Fathers with Justin Martyr and Irenaeus
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Long-suffering servants were ordered about in French and wore perukes to wait on his guests.
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He'd love to write a collection of essays on speculative fiction and, in a fit of frenzied conceitedness, his long-suffering epic fantasy sequence about a wizard who tattooed souls.
MIND MELD: Guide to International SF/F Part IV
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His long-suffering wife had to put up with his numerous affairs.
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More than likely their husbands were perfectly decent, long-suffering, henpecked men.
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Dying of syphilis ... in love with the opera of Bizet "to an early memory of his father grinding up the antidrinking drug Antabuse (" It makes you sick if you drink alcohol, "he writes) and forcing his long-suffering, alcoholic mother to swallow it.
The Bard of Berkeley
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Poor, simple Eddie, whose weary smile and ubiquitous brown leather waistcoat gave him the air of a long-suffering medieval farrier, was forever being dragged into subplots he couldn't understand when he'd much rather be trudging into the Argee Bhajee for an unhurried lunchtime livener.
World Of Lather
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Experience has taught the long-suffering Arsenal star that any light at the end of a tunnel is usually an express train hurtling towards his hopes of glory.
The Sun
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The long-suffering bleakness was very pronounced on Nancy's face, and when the walls of water, in impending downfall, reared above the
CHAPTER XIII
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Of course they have their counterpart on the other side of the argument: the florid-faced, overweight beefeater astride his long-suffering mount, pompously blustering his right to do whatever he jolly well pleases.
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Mr. Gordon performed a surpassing rataplan upon his long-suffering thumb-joint and wondered if this queer and direct being might qualify among the redeemable ten per cent.
Success A Novel
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After numerous false starts, attendance figures hint that long-suffering soccer fans might finally have something to be excited about.
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Ramiro leaned his ampleness back on his long-suffering horse and laughed.
Virginity
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After numerous false starts, attendance figures hint that long-suffering soccer fans might finally have something to be excited about.
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Meanwhile, the government bailout has come at a price that does long-suffering shareholders a favour.
Times, Sunday Times
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After numerous false starts, attendance figures hint that long-suffering soccer fans might finally have something to be excited about.
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I could hear the sound of Alexis dragging smoke into her long-suffering respiratory tract.
KICK BACK
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For the Rangers' rooters, it's not as if this seven-year slump were another long-suffering Stanley Cup famine.
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That he is in his early 40s, and has children and a very long-suffering wife, doesn't bother him enough for him to stop.
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Among them were letters from Nelson's long-suffering wife, Fanny.
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She is a gentle, long-suffering squire who has devoted her life to massaging actors into costumes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Another gate delivered them into the second court, grass-grown, and more wild than the first, where, as she surveyed through the twilight its desolation — its lofty walls, overtopt with briony, moss and nightshade, and the embattled towers that rose above, — long-suffering and murder came to her thoughts.
The Mysteries of Udolpho
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Increasingly the victims of Scotland's love affair with boozing and brawling are long-suffering NHS staff.
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A high-society events organiser who ignores the ongoing hordes of prostitutes and junior female staff consorting with her husband, she is a million miles away from being the long-suffering victim she could so easily be.
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So here we go again - pass the bill to the long-suffering tax payer; its only £12.4 million, a mere bagatelle.
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The long-suffering Tory faithful may feel they are going through hell; but last week's policy renaissance proved they are only in the temporary state of purgatory.
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After numerous false starts, attendance figures hint that long-suffering soccer fans might finally have something to be excited about.
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They are so long-suffering that we are going to lose patience with them; we are going to accuse them of cowardice; the Irish people believe they are cowards; their very leniency is put down to cowardice.
The Irish Problem
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She is a gentle, long-suffering squire who has devoted her life to massaging actors into costumes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Pop-eyed and slightly frowsy, she turns the long-suffering chorine into a study in soft-hearted ditzhood.
Times, Sunday Times
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Natalya Bessmertnova is delicate as the long-suffering Phrygia, cruelly separated from her husband, ill-used by Crassus and mocked by Aegina, finding Spartacus again only to lose him in the final battle with the superior Roman forces.
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No sooner had the ink dried on last week's column, than one of my long-suffering 17 readers was into action.
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Experience has taught the long-suffering Arsenal star that any light at the end of a tunnel is usually an express train hurtling towards his hopes of glory.
The Sun
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When Bland was swindled by a partner in a brush factory which he had bought, his long-suffering, uncomplaining, heroine of a wife had to support the family by her writing.
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Florinda's scalp was mended with a hot knitting-needle and a perpetual bonnet, and Dot rescued her paint-brushes from the glue-pot, and smelt her india-rubber as it boiled down in Sam's waterproof manufactory, with long-suffering forbearance.
The Brownies and Other Tales
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And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering.
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It was man and long-suffering wife in total unison.
The Sun
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Apparently, he does this to his long-suffering wife all the time.
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But these long-suffering fans are instead stuck with this sorry shower.
The Sun
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Yesterday there was more turmoil for the club's long-suffering fans.
The Sun
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This plan would have succeeded admirably had not the evil star under which I was born, been in the ascendant during that month, and cast its malign influences even into my "'umble" larder; for the rats had their dessert off my cheese, the bugs set up housekeeping in my cracker bag, and the apples like all worldly riches, took to themselves wings and flew away; whither no man could tell, though certain black imps might have thrown light upon the matter, had not the plaintiff in the case been loth to add another to the many trials of long-suffering.
Hospital Sketches
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He vented his anger on his long-suffering wife.
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And then there is Tessie, taking the rain of abuse and indignities with long-suffering resignation.
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I don't believe in curses, but I do love the coincidence of all these long-suffering fans being delivered into joy in successive years.
History
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The first to look after him was his long-suffering wife, Johanna - long-suffering because when he was on a high he was beset by satyriasis, recklessly pursuing every woman within arm's reach.
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What did our long-suffering paragon of good grace do?
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They bear the inevitable frustrations of running a 2nd team with long-suffering stoicism, but are unswerving in their insistence on the cultural expectations of the game's social side.
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Julia is his long-suffering girlfriend Samantha who is not at all happy about her boyf's continuing criminal activities.
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He went back to Yorkshire to join his loyal, long-suffering wife.
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Ditto for such long-suffering conservative entertainers as actress Janine Turner, who kvetched that at one point she thought she would be fired from Friday Night Lights -- that commie TV show about Texas high school football -- because of her politics.
Michael Sigman: Gratitude In A World Of Sin And Sorrow
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Shed a tear instead for their long-suffering parents.
Times, Sunday Times
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George's long-suffering wife cannot bring herself to curb her husband's excesses.
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As he beds a procession of desperate chorus girls and barmaids, his long-suffering wife, Phoebe, drinks herself into oblivion in their ramshackle bedsit.
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Ay, indeed, I can show you warrant why we be aidful to each other in doing acts of kindness and long-suffering, seeing the best of us are poor sinful creatures, who might suffer, being called to a brief accounting.
Woodstock; or, the Cavalier
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“Ay, indeed, I can show you warrant why we be aidful to each other in doing acts of kindness and long-suffering, seeing the best of us are poor sinful creatures, who might suffer, being called to a brief accounting.”
Woodstock
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She also gets to sing the best song of the evening, "So the Old Dog Has Come Home," the heartsore lament of a long-suffering spouse:
Get Thee to New Jersey
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And yet it called to him across that leagues-wide savannah, and was like a benediction to his long-suffering, pain racked spirit.
THE RED ONE
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Try telling that to York City's long-suffering away supporters.
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Since nobody (to my memory) has ever offered a vote of thanks to these long-suffering partners, I do so now.
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As usual, Santos as the long-suffering Becker and Margolin as the insufferable Angel provide solid support.
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We were told to stay off the street by long-suffering national guardsmen and women with southern accents, kids.
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He went back to Yorkshire to join his loyal, long-suffering wife.
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Our intrepid (if long-suffering) heroine Chicken Jane attempts to save Scot and Dot from a hurtling ornithological hazard in this short-u-filled classic episode of “Fun with Chicken Jane.”
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Desmond Tutu said that long-suffering can embitter you, but it can also change you in a great way and Mandela has done the latter.
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It will cause misery for long-suffering drivers who faced gridlock when the main burst, forcing police to shut the flooded road for hours.
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He then faces the much more difficult task of selling what could be a very painful deal to the company's long-suffering shareholders.
Times, Sunday Times
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He will be off work for weeks and his long-suffering wife will once again have to struggle to make ends meet.
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He asked his long-suffering wife, Constance, to collect a selection of his epigrams and sayings.
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I remain to be convinced that the end result will justify months of inactivity and inconvenience to long-suffering passengers.
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Fresh disclosures from Ulrika are sure to shake Sven's relationship with his faithful, long-suffering partner.
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As he beds a procession of desperate chorus girls and barmaids, his long-suffering wife, Phoebe, drinks herself into oblivion in their ramshackle bedsit.
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Sports widows will probably relate to Lindsey's plight, and long-suffering fans of many teams will see reflections of themselves in Ben.
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No caustic reproach, no specious arguments against the plan, no long-suffering resignation.
C B GREENFIELD - A LITTLE MADNESS
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If he does get away, put on the deeply hurt yet ultimately forgiving face of a long-suffering mistress.
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It even has its own pair of Watchmen-style deconstructed superheroes: Mermaid Man, shuffling in peevish slippers toward senility, and his long-suffering sidekick, Barnacle Boy.
SpongeBob's Golden Dream
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Shane is, as I have been saying apparently once too often to the long-suffering mollpeartree and jovianconsensus, if anything, "visionist.
Kenneth Hite's Journal
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The drama of The Big Why is anchored largely in the tension between Kent and his long-suffering wife, Kathleen, as he fathers two children by other women.
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I had an empty Apple Snail shell scrounged from my long-suffering dealer for just such an experiment.
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Yet Libya and its long-suffering tribal society, sitting atop vast oil riches, faces an uncertain future as it tries to establish a real government in place of the dead leader's personal tyranny.
