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Dure

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a.1.Hard; harsh; severe; rough; toilsome.
The winter is severe, and life is dure and rude.
- W. H. Russell.
v. i.1.To last; to continue; to endure.
Yet hath he not root in himself, but dureth for a while.
- Matt. xiii. 21.


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Sir Gawaine's strength feebled and waxed pass- ing faint, that unnethes he might dure any longer, and Sir Marhaus was then bigger and bigger --"
As to him - I soon learned to regret I was not some object, some beautiful, carved object of bone or bronze; a rare piece of porcelain, pate dure, not pate tendre.
The proceedings seemed to have come to a definite end so far as he was concerned; for one had only to look at that granite face to realize that no peine forte et dure would ever force him to plead against his will.
 
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