Doctor Starkweather rose slowly to his feet, with the air of a person whose capacity of
toleration had reached its last limits.
The very general
toleration of foreign religions, the regard paid to the means of education, the freedom of the press, the facilities offered to all foreigners, and especially, as I am bound to add, to every one professing the humblest pretensions to science, should be recollected with gratitude by those who have visited Spanish South America.
We must not strain the
toleration of the French authorities too much!
She felt she had made almost too many allowances, and apologized hurriedly for her
toleration.
There was a strong assumption of superiority in this Puritanic
toleration, hardly less trying to the blond flesh of an unenthusiastic sister than a Puritanic persecution.
The return of Henry Crawford, and the arrival of William Price, had much to do with it, but much was still owing to Sir Thomas's more than
toleration of the neighbourly attempts at the Parsonage.
Attempts have been made to pervert this clause into an objection against the Constitution, by representing it on one side as a criminal
toleration of an illicit practice, and on another as calculated to prevent voluntary and beneficial emigrations from Europe to America.
Hence the proverbial
toleration of artists for their own evil creations.
I can only discover this by affecting a
toleration for these people's society, which I can assure you, if you are curious about the matter, is wholly assumed."
Marianne, who had never much
toleration for any thing like impertinence, vulgarity, inferiority of parts, or even difference of taste from herself, was at this time particularly ill-disposed, from the state of her spirits, to be pleased with the Miss Steeles, or to encourage their advances; and to the invariable coldness of her behaviour towards them, which checked every endeavour at intimacy on their side, Elinor principally attributed that preference of herself which soon became evident in the manners of both, but especially of Lucy, who missed no opportunity of engaging her in conversation, or of striving to improve their acquaintance by an easy and frank communication of her sentiments.
In truth, I was a Martian chieftain, and this I learned later was the cause of my great freedom and my
toleration in the audience chamber.
A species of armed
toleration had marked their occasional meetings.