Sentence example with the word 'withstood'

withstood

Last update: July 8, 2015


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8 as the Egyptian magicians who withstood Moses.   [Please select]

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The waves rolled in, but he grasped the rocks and withstood the surf, and still advanced.   [Please select]

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She had withstood him indeed, but it had cost her every inch of her strength.   [Please select]

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Whatever the compulsion put upon her, she ought to have withstood it.   [Please select]

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Once only she had withstood him--once only she had triumphed, and for that triumph she had paid by a complete surrender.   [Please select]

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He had considerable vitality, however; he withstood one shock after another and survived to start again with new vigor.   [Please select]

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Scott had withstood him, Scott the weakling, and in so doing had made him aware of a strength that exceeded his own.   [Please select]

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One particular variety of Noisette rose withstood the severe frost of 1860 "untouched and hale amidst a universal destruction of other {309} Noisettes."   [Please select]

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In eastern Kansas, where settlement was older, the pressure of hard times was withstood with less difficulty.   [Please select]

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We know that in the west they stormed the intrenchments of Cassivellaunus, and that no native fort has ever withstood their assault.   [Please select]

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But Father Beret withstood him so firmly that he made no farther headway; he even lost some ground a moment later.   [Please select]

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