1 Especially she is generally intolerant of emotion, when she does not fully comprehend the why and wherefore.
The Scarlet Letter By Nathaniel HawthorneContext Highlight In XIX. THE CHILD AT THE BROOKSIDE 2 It was not a brutal countenance, but it was prim, hard, and stern, with a firm-set, thin-lipped mouth, and a coldly intolerant eye.
The Hound of the Baskervilles By Arthur Conan DoyleContext Highlight In Chapter 13. Fixing the Nets 3 It was the only thing in which he was in a manner intolerant.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor HugoContext Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER II—MADELEINE 4 The thought of the animal's suffering was intolerable to him and he struggled to raise himself, and could not because a rock, or some huge mass, seemed to be lying on him.
5 Some, like Ellen, were members of old families who had found life intolerable in their former homes and sought haven in a distant land.
6 The idea of bargaining for the letters was intolerable to her, but she knew that, if she appeared to weaken, Mrs. Haffen would at once increase her original demand.
7 She had never felt less like making the attempt than on the present occasion; but she had sought in vain for any other means of escape from an intolerable situation.
8 But the task might take years to accomplish, even if she continued to stint herself to the utmost; and meanwhile her pride would be crushed under the weight of an intolerable obligation.
9 These were her superficial considerations; but under them lurked the secret dread that the obligation might not always remain intolerable.
10 He held her lips against his for an intolerable time.
11 So intolerable indeed is it regarded by some, that no cupidity could persuade them to moor alongside of it.
Moby Dick By Herman MelvilleContext Highlight In CHAPTER 91. The Pequod Meets The Rose-Bud. 12 But the awful lonesomeness is intolerable.
13 I could not endure the sight; could not possibly fly his howlings; all comfort, sleep itself, inestimable reason would leave me on the long intolerable voyage.
14 It would have been quite intolerable, staying in a cell with this wild beast, but for the fact that all day long the prisoners were put at work breaking stone.
15 In his great anxiety his heart was continually clamoring at what he considered the intolerable slowness of the generals.