1 On her deathbed the fortitude and benignity of this best of women did not desert her.
2 I must pause here, for it requires all my fortitude to recall the memory of the frightful events which I am about to relate, in proper detail, to my recollection.
3 They had fortitude and self-reliance, and in time of difficulty or peril stood up for the welfare of the state like a line of cliffs against a tempestuous tide.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XXII. THE PROCESSION 4 Concern for her unhappiness, and respect for her fortitude under it, must strengthen every attachment.
5 Long letters from her, quickly succeeding each other, arrived to tell all that she suffered and thought; to express her anxious solicitude for Marianne, and entreat she would bear up with fortitude under this misfortune.
6 I saw that my own feelings had prepared my sufferings, and that my want of fortitude under them had almost led me to the grave.
7 You must call up all your fortitude, and try to bear it.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 22. SOME OLD SCENES, AND SOME NEW PEOPLE 8 I cannot leave him even now, without remembering with a pang, at once his modest fortitude and his great sorrow.
David Copperfield By Charles DickensContext Highlight In CHAPTER 32. THE BEGINNING OF A LONG JOURNEY 9 Miss Mills was very glad to see me, and very sorry her papa was not at home: though I thought we all bore that with fortitude.
10 Beyond a line or two, to say that I was well, and had arrived at such a place, I had not had fortitude or constancy to write a letter since I left home.
11 I had always felt my weakness, in comparison with her constancy and fortitude; and now I felt it more and more.
12 Ellen had hinted before the wedding that marriage was something women must bear with dignity and fortitude, and the whispered comments of other matrons since her widowhood had confirmed this.
13 But she knew she could no longer endure with any fortitude the sound of his voice when there was no love in it.
14 Yet, for all his hardy sobriety and fortitude, there were certain qualities in him which at times affected, and in some cases seemed well nigh to overbalance all the rest.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 26. Knights and Squires. 15 There was an infinity of firmest fortitude, a determinate, unsurrenderable wilfulness, in the fixed and fearless, forward dedication of that glance.