Use patience in a sentence
Sentences starting with patience
- Patience and silence was his motto. [11]
- Patience was only too delighted, and took her into her museum of natural history, art, religion, and vegetation. [4]
- Patience confessed that the getting exactly right of the Great Dipper had caused her most trouble. [4]
- Patience first discovered it. [4]
- Patience says she hopes it will not become common; it is too fine to be nosed about by the ordinary. [4]
- Patience was a home-keeping body and rarely left the premises except to go to church on Sunday, although her cheerfulness and social helpfulness were tinged by nothing morbid. [4]
- Patience and you, Frau Barbara, have been bad friends ever since I knew you. [10]
- Patience and time are my warriors, my champions," thought Kutuzov. [2]
Sentences ending with patience
- I would marry you; and then--Have patience. [5]
- But, if we work with Providence, we must work in the reasonable ways of Providence, and add to our faith patience. [4]
- She regarded me with seeming patience. [9]
- Somers and Gates were busy building two cedar ships, the Deliverer, of eighty tons, and a pinnace called the Patience. [4]
- There are only two remedies for heart-sickness:--hope and patience. [10]
- You must learn to have patience. [10]
- Now she was to be the stronger, and teach her to exercise patience. [10]
- I am too thorough a radical to have your patience. [9]
- Now I took this well-meant warning as it was intended; and albeit Ann and I were heartsick with longing to see Herdegen and to release him from his hiding, we nevertheless took patience. [10]
- As long as they had life enough left in them they had to stick to the horse and ride, even if the Indians had been waiting for them a week, and were entirely out of patience. [5]
Short sentences using patience
- So take patience, sweetheart. [10]
- The countess was playing patience. [2]
- I must have patience. [8]
- We must have patience. [12]
- Youth has no patience. [11]
- I nearly lost my patience. [5]
- Our troops had lost patience. [10]
- So I waited in patience. [9]
- Her determined patience had triumphed. [11]
- Driscoll's patience was exhausted. [5]
Sentences containing patience two or more times
- The mahout bores into the back of his head with a great iron prod and you wonder at his temerity and at the elephant's patience, and you think that perhaps the patience will not last; but it does, and nothing happens. [5]
- Hope and patience, hope and patience! [12]
More example sentences with the word patience in them
- It is easy, you say, for an outsider to preach waiting, patience, forbearance, sympathy, helpfulness. [4]
- I was ambitious; yet I find solace in thinking that I saw only one way to it,--by patience, industry, and much thinking. [11]
- For three long years have I taken patience and with a right good will. [10]
- Janet's heart was wrung as she gazed at the gaunt, bewildered faces growing daily more tragic, more bewildered and gaunt; she marvelled at the animal-like patience of these Europeans, at the dumb submission of most of them to privations that struck her as appalling. [9]
- Gras had already written twice to his master, telling him with what gratifying patience Hermon was beginning to submit to his great misfortune, when the notary Melampus returned from Alexandria with news which produced the most delightful transformation in the blind artist's outer life. [10]
- Ah, if he would only have patience, or if she could keep him distracted through this winter and their night, she might save him. [9]
- Time and patience would be pretty sure to bring out new developments, and physicians, of all men in the world, know how to wait as well as how to labor. [6]
- I exhausted my wits, and very nearly my patience also, in efforts to convince both that the evils they charged on each other were inherent in the case, and could not be cured by giving either party a victory over the other. [7]
- He lost patience with the spectacle. [5]
- He had waited with patience, hoping stubbornly that she might come to put her hand in his one day. [11]
- Losing all patience with him, gave Mithoo, one of the gang, 5 rupees ($2.50) to murder him, and take the sin upon himself. [5]
- Frank had patience with her, as was his way, an' let her be as interested as she liked. [13]
- In patience and with care have I trained myself for the battle. [11]
- He had been willing to wait for her love, believing that by patience and devotion he could win it. [11]
- He tried his wife's love and patience as a man must to whom the future is easy in the mass but terrible as it translates itself piecemeal into the present. [8]
- With all of which Mrs. Grafton was fain to agree, and must even excel, until her small stock of patience was exhausted. [9]
- He added that, when his patience was at an end, he should positively insist on its surrender and bring every means at his disposal into play to procure it. [10]
- But these men were of opaque stuff, and were not dismayed, and they called him St. Anthony, and with a prophetic and deadly patience waited. [11]
- In short she was so insubordinate that Herse lost patience and scolded her severely. [10]
- Their entire being was reduced to a monotonous dead level of patience, resignation, dumb uncomplaining acceptance of whatever might befall them in this life. [5]
- There, for instance, was Patience, the maiden aunt, his father's sister, the news-monger of the fireside, whose powers of ratiocination first gave Philip the Greek idea and method of reasoning to a point and arriving at truth by the process of exclusion. [4]
- At this Katharina was forced to support herself against her mother's arm-chair to save herself from sinking on her knees; with tingling cheeks she questioned the leech till he lost all patience and turned away much annoyed at such excessive feminine curiosity. [10]
- This night he was crowding into the music four years of events: of memory, hope, pride, patience, and affection. [11]
- After the Diet was broken up, the Elector Frederick of Brandenburg was forced to take patience till the princes, lords, and mounted men-at-arms sent forth by the townships, five or six from each, could muster at his bidding to pursue the Hussites in Bohemia. [10]
- The old countess, waiting for the return of her husband and son, sat playing patience with the old gentlewoman who lived in their house. [2]
- Peter's representations were unheeded; he now frankly told Henrica what a conflict he had had, and entreated her to have patience and be content to remain in his house as a welcome guest. [10]
- So she remained under the linden, and Dr. Mathys did not put her newly won virtue of patience, which he prized so highly, to too severe a trial. [10]
- Usually subjects summoned to the presence of the king were kept waiting for hours, but the Hebrew's patience was not tried long. [10]
- The Prince continued to struggle for freedom, and to rage against the treatment he was suffering, until John Canty lost what little patience was left in him, and raised his oaken cudgel in a sudden fury over the Prince's head. [5]
- I should like to see your aunt Patience in a theatre and hear what she said about it. [4]
- How am I to preserve self-control, calmness, patience, when I see her in the arms of that handsome young demi-god whom I scorned only yesterday as a worthless scoundrel? [10]
- I preferred him to my dog, whom I had, with much patience, taught to go up a long hill alone and surround the cows, and drive them home from the remote pasture. [4]
- We have learned to go through the lingering routine of the table d'hote with patience, with serenity, with satisfaction. [5]
- It is not to give the possessor vegetables or fruit (that can be better and cheaper done by the market-gardeners), but to teach him patience and philosophy and the higher virtues, hope deferred and expectations blighted, leading directly to resignation and sometimes to alienation. [4]
- It is impossible to collect money on that or any other claim here now; and although you know I am not a very petulant man, I declare I am almost out of patience with Mr. Everett's importunity. [7]
- It would require time, yes, and patience, too, a great deal of both. [5]
- For life all through is but waiting for the end; and even when we have taken the last Sacrament and our eyes are dim in death then most of all must we take Patience, waiting for that we shall find beyond the grave. [10]
- It was at this time that the wonderful counterpane began to grow, to the continual astonishment of Giuseppe, to whom it seemed a marvel of skill and patience, and who saw what love and sweet hope Fiammetta was knitting into it with her deft fingers. [4]
- His patience under this punishment is admirable, and there is something pathetic in his restraint from profanity. [4]
- He knew all this and therefore waited calmly for what would happen, with more patience than the horses, especially the near one, the chestnut Falcon, who was pawing the ground and champing his bit. [2]
- He seemed to think it was his own indomitable patience, the work that he had done, and his reports, which had at last shamed the Egyptian Government and the Caisse de la Dette into doing the right thing for the country and to him. [11]
- In circumstances where there was profit in view, he could, to be sure, be polite even to subservience and show inexhaustible patience. [10]
- Those who force themselves upon Caesar, as these citizens do, must learn to have patience. [10]
- That voice is the voice of patience and resignation; that voice is one that bears everything calmly and dispassionately, amid the most distressing scenes; when the fates are arrayed against her peace, and apparently plotting for her destruction, still she is resigned. [5]
- She never complained: the strain of asceticism, which mysteriously exists in us all, and makes us put peas, boiled or unboiled, in our shoes, gave her patience with the snub which the Leightons presented her for her aunt. [8]
- During the delay the spectators exhibited unexampled patience, finding amusement and relief in the slightest movements of the court, the prisoner and the lawyers. [5]
- He said that the snake-grass was not in my garden originally, that it sneaked in under the sod, and that it could be entirely rooted out with industry and patience. [4]
- He had neither the patience nor the method of the inductive reasoner; he passed from one thought to another not by logical steps but by airy flights, which left no footprints. [6]
- For he was the last man to behold with patience the shattering of his idols. [9]
- At length, when the last chest was shut again and locked, and I had exhausted my ingenuity at commendation, and my patience also, he turned to me as a man come out of a trance. [9]
- V It is the desire of every ambitious soul to, enter Literature by the front door, and the few who have patience and money enough to live without the aid of the beckoning Helen may enter there. [4]
- This blow shattered the anchorite's patience, and, no longer master of himself, he exclaimed, "You shall answer to me for this! [10]
- I have to thank you for a thousand courtesies, and above all for the patience and indulgence with which you have listened to me when I have tried to instruct or amuse you. [6]
- There never was such patience under wrong treatment, such return of devotion for injury. [4]
- Suddenly, by that strange power of sympathy which the unselfish possess, she understood the man, understood Austen's patience with him and affection for him. [9]
- For that, not storming and attacking but patience and time are wanted. [2]
- Those sad gums stood up out of the dry white clay, pictures of patience and resignation. [5]
- We mention this so that the tourist who comes this way may learn to possess his soul in patience, and know that steamboats are not run for his accommodation, but to give him repose and to familiarize him with the country. [4]
- I have taken so much space in "defining my position," to borrow the politicians' phrase, that I begin to fear you will be out of patience before you come to the part of my letter I care most about your reading. [6]
- He had a singular patience, and he resented nothing. [11]
- It happened that she had to wait here some time; for the usher begged her to have patience until the merchants' audience was over. [10]
- And so long she had succeeded in keeping silence!--But now her patience gave way. [10]
- Have patience, for several days must pass before my return. [10]
- Her rheumatic attack set me to cursing and swearing, without limit as to time or energy, but it merely concentrated her patience and her unconquerable fortitude. [5]
- He had certainly scarcely become a master of this art on board the Hydra, yet his slow performance did all honour to the patience of his teacher Myrtilus. [10]
- I never yet saw the man I couldn't back down, and I haven't any patience with a woman who gives in to them. [9]
- How should the ruler over a million souls find time or patience for her and her trivial griefs? [10]
- Conrad 'll come round in time; and all we've got to do is to have patience with the old man till he does. [8]
- At last he rose, lifted his glass, and said: "The Angel of Patience is wise. [11]
- Quartz-mining and milling require capital, and staying-power, and patience. [5]
- I was so relieved when judge Leventritt did find something that was not taxable--when he said that the commissioner could not tax your patience. [5]
- There they were, ranks on ranks, silent in stone, when the last of the long twilight illumined them; and there in the same impressive patience they waited the golden day. [4]
- His temper was quick, the prospect of opposition often made him overbearing, yet on occasions he listened with surprising patience to his subordinates when they ventured to differ from his opinions. [9]
- We have already put the patience of the judges to too severe a test. [10]
- And it so proved that it called for much patience and long endurance to carry through the duties, say rather the kind offices, the painful pleasures, which she had chosen as her share in the household where accident had thrown her. [6]
- He found these pictures monotonous and unlovely, and he had not the patience to investigate their meaning as his master did. [10]
- I pray you, Phanes, to have patience and follow me into the house. [10]
- And they've got patience, they'll wait thar till the b'ars git fat. [9]
- The kind-hearted man's patience, however, was not tested too long; for when Helena entered the summer-house Didymus had already been informed of the disaster which threatened him and his family. [10]
- We must have patience, and it can only come about slowly, but you must make an effort. [10]
- I have no patience with those people who are always looking on the seamy side. [4]
- They had no patience with thieves. [5]
- He had no patience with these forces arrayed against him. [11]
- She lost all patience with them. [8]
- I await with patience whatever may be impending--an early day must decide. [10]
- With a tender patience he explained what a thief and a rogue were, and his voice was curiously soft when he added, in Arabic: "And the third son was like you, Mahommed--and he died first. [11]
- However, when Miss Patience came in she made better headway. [4]
- Papa displayed extraordinary patience and firmness; the surgeons seemed surprised. [14]
- We counted sixty panes of glass in one window, and each pane was adorned with one of these master achievements of genius and patience. [5]
- He took a pack of cards that lay on the table and began to lay them out for a game of patience. [2]
- On reaching her own house, Maria attempted to take leave of her companion, but the latter earnestly entreated permission to have an interview with Henrica at once, and could scarcely be convinced that he must have patience until the doctor had given his consent. [10]
- In working it out you are entitled, from the outside, to the most impartial attempt to understand its real nature, to the utmost patience with the facts of human nature, to the most profound and most helpful sympathy. [4]
- Yet she kept out of bed, for her father's sake, and struggled in solitary patience through her worst hours. [14]
- He knew four or five men in the hotel, with whom he talked stocks while waiting for Honora to complete her toilets; and he gathered from two of these, who were married, that patience was a necessary qualification in a husband. [9]
- Time and patience only solve such enigmas. [4]
- Sometimes he was on the point of losing patience with this enigmatic person. [9]
- A strong advocate of the doctrine of the indeterminate sentence, he had little patience with many of the judicial outgivings on that subject. [4]
- The serious side of life, and three sad years passed with her ungovernable husband and brother, had been first-rate masters in the school of patience, but they had not been able to alienate her heart from her first love. [10]
- Whenever I read of Indian resignation, Indian patience under wrongs, hardships, and misfortunes, he comes before me. [5]
- The weak thread of his patience broke, and in a fearful passion he commanded the guards to behead me at once. [10]
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