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patience

[pey-shuhns] / ˈpeɪ ʃəns /


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The chief requirements for play, besides a "Guggenheim" book, are pencils, paper, patiences.

From Time Magazine Archive

Philanthropic patiences were said to be verging on exhaustion.

From Time Magazine Archive

Stevens listened and cabled his impressions to New York, where Robert McLaughlin and Henry Grunwald wrote and edited the report of the Khrushchev performance that tried a great many patiences last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

The nature had grown harsher and more rugged—but also larger, more complex, more significant, better worth the patiences of love.

From Fenwick's Career by Ward, Humphry, Mrs.

There are limits even to Princely-Presidential purses and patiences, and few people cared to incur liabilities at the “Lord Warden,” which would have brought the shadow of the Bankruptcy Court looming upon the horizon.

From The Dover Road Annals of an Ancient Turnpike by Harper, Charles G.




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